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Simple ABAP/4 for trouble shooting

May 25th, 2004

Objectives:

 Understand and get an idea on what ABAP/4


programming does, and what is the component in
ABAP workbench

 Get to know common statement, understand the


ABAP program logic roughly.

 Able to do the basic investigation when facing the


problem.

Content
 Introduction R/3 Basis system overview
 ABAP/4 overview
Component, Program, ABAP dictionary, Function Module ,
Message/Transaction code, etc.

 Common Statement / Command


- Main event in ABAP program
- General ABAP command

 Transportation for ABAP objects


 Type of problem and how to investigate
Program bug, ABAP runtime error, Update terminate, Unexpected
error message.

Introduction R/3 Basis system overview


R/3 user

R/3 user

R/3 user

Presentation component

ABAP
Workbench

R/3 Basis
system

R/3
R/3
Application 1 ... Application N

Kernel & Basis services

Database Management System

Database

Content

 Introduction R/3 Basis system overview


 ABAP/4 overview
Component, Program, ABAP dictionary, Function Module ,
Message/Transaction code, etc.

 Common Statement / Command


- Main event in ABAP program
- General ABAP command

 Transportation for ABAP objects


 Type of problem and how to investigate
Program bug, ABAP runtime error, Update terminate, Unexpected
error message.

ABAP/4 overview

Topics:
 Often used transactions
 What is ABAP/4 program?
 ABAP dictionary
 Function Module
 Message
 Transaction code
 Authorization in ABAP object

Often used transactions

SE80 - Repository Browser: Used to display and edit hierarchical lists of


development objects.

SE11 - Dictionary : Used to define and save data definitions You can also store
documentation, help information, data relationships, and other information. You also
use the Dictionary to generate database objects like tables and indexes.
The Dictionary is a central storage area for system-wide data definitions. Because
definitions are stored centrally, they are available for use anywhere in any program
throughout the system

SE38 - ABAP editor : Create/edit/Display program code


SE37 - Function Builder : define and store function modules, use the library to
write new modules and look up information on existing modules

Often used transactions (cont)

SE51 - Screen Painter : Used to design the screens in an application's


graphical user interface.

SE41 - Menu Painter : Used to design the menus that appear in your
interface

SE16 - Data browser : Display data in Transparent table or Database view


SM30

- Table maintenance : Maintain data

ABAP/4 overview

Topics:
 Often used transactions
 What is ABAP/4 program?
 ABAP dictionary
 Function Module
 Message
 Transaction code
 Authorization in ABAP object

What is ABAP/4 program?


ABAP/4 : Advance Business Application Programming
Type of ABAP/4 program
1

Executable program(Report/Interface)
Can be started with transaction code/directly/background
(via SE38 or SA38 - For example: RMCB0100 )

INCLUDE program
Can not run on its own, has been included in other program

Module pool
Processing step of screens, can be executed via transaction code or
Menu function (For example: SAPMV45A - Sale order processing)

Function group
Contain function modules (SE37)

Subroutine pool
Externally-called subroutines

ABAP/4 overview

Topics:
 Often used transactions
 What is ABAP/4 program?
 ABAP dictionary
 Function Module
 Message
 Transaction code
 Authorization in ABAP object

ABAP Dictionary
SE11 - Data dictionary

View
Table

Structure

Data element
ABAP Dictionary

Domain

F4
Search help

Lock object

ABAP/4 overview

Topics:
 Often used transactions
 What is ABAP/4 program?
 ABAP dictionary
 Function Module
 Message
 Transaction code
 Authorization in ABAP object

Function module
Function Module
- ABAP/4 program: Include program
- Special external subroutines (include) stored in a central library
- Different from normal ABAP routine is the clearly defined interface
for passing data to and from the function module. The calling
program
and the called function module have separate work areas

- Located in Function group (main program start with SAPLxxxx)


- Can be tested separately in SE37
- Statement in ABAP to call function module are:
- CALL FUNCTION xxxxx

ABAP/4 overview

Topics:
 Often used transactions
 What is ABAP/4 program?
 ABAP dictionary
 Function Module
 Message
 Transaction code
 Authorization in ABAP object

Message

There are several different types of message:


W - Warning (Correction possible)
E - Error (Correction required)
S - Success (message on next screen)
I - Information (press Enter to continue)
A - Abend (Transaction terminated)
X - Exit (Terminated with short dump)
Note :

Transaction code for message maintenance is SE91,


Table store the message text is T100, language dependent.
ABAP key word - MESSAGE

ABAP/4 overview

Topics:
 Often used transactions
 What is ABAP/4 program?
 ABAP dictionary
 Function Module
 Message
 Transaction code
 Authorization in ABAP object

Transaction code

Transaction code is:


Sequence of alphanumeric characters forming a code for
business task.

Transaction type:
Dialog transaction - Flow by sequence of screens (for example FB03)
Report transaction - Start program with type 1 (for example MCBA)
Variant transaction - (client specific) start another transaction with variant
(for example UPAR)

Area menu - Menu which contain the group of frequently-used transactions


(for example S001)

Parameter transaction - pre-assign values in the initial screen and


suppress the screen when transaction is executed (for example OB22)

Note :

All transactions are stored in table TSTC, Maintain via SE93

ABAP/4 overview

Topics:
 Often used transactions
 What is ABAP/4 program?
 ABAP dictionary
 Function Module
 Message
 Transaction code
 Authorization in ABAP object

Authorization in ABAP object

Program authorization
Transaction code
Table maintenance/Data browser

Program authorization group

Authorization group is field of the authorization objects


S_DEVELOP (program development and program execution) and
S_PROGRAM (program maintenance).
This field contains the name of a program group that allows users
to
execute programs
schedule jobs for background processing
maintain programs
maintain variants
When creating a program, you can specify an authorization group
as one of the program attributes. This allows you to group together
programs for the purposes of authorization checking.

Transaction authorization group

Authorization object in transaction code will be checked whenever


the transaction is started. The following object will be checked
S_TCODE(Authorization check for transaction start )
The authorization checks defined by the developer with transaction
SE93 (transaction maintenance) or in the ABAP/4 source code
continue to be performed.
Field to be checked is TCD: Transaction code

Table maintenance/Data browser

Authorizations for displaying or maintaining tables. The object only


controls access using the standard table maintenance tool (SM31),
enhanced table maintenance (SM30) or the Data Browser (SE16),
including access in Customizing.
Object S_TABU_DIS -Table Maintenance (via standard tools such
as SM31) will be checked for the following fields:
Authorization group for DD objects: Authorization for tables by
authorization class according to table TDDAT. (Using SM31 to
display the authorization group table)
Activity: Allowed operations.
Possible values are:
- 02: Create, change or delete (Maintain) table entries
- 03: Display table entries only

Content

 Introduction R/3 Basis system overview


 ABAP/4 overview
Component, Program, ABAP dictionary, Function Module ,
Message/Transaction code, etc.

 Common Statement / Command


- Main event in ABAP program
- General ABAP command

 Transportation for ABAP objects


 Type of problem and how to investigate
Program bug, ABAP runtime error, Update terminate, Unexpected
error message.

Common Statement / Command

Topics:
 Event in ABAP/4 program
- Dialog module
- Executable program (Selection screen,
lists)

 ABAP statement and Keyword

Event in ABAP/4 program


Event in Dialog Module

100
Transaction code
has been
requested from
R/3 user

200
300

Dialog screen chain


PBO = Process Before Output
PAI = Process After Input

PBO Module.
Module xxxx
Module yyyy
PAI Module
Module aaaa
PBO
Module.
Module
bbbb
Module xxxx
Module yyyy
PAI Module
ModulePBO
aaaaModule.
Module Module
bbbb xxxx
Module yyyy
PAI Module
Module aaaa
Module bbbb

Module pool

Question??

Common Statement / Command

Topics:
 Event in ABAP/4 program
- Dialog module
- Executable program (Selection screen,
lists)

 ABAP statement and Keyword

ABAP statement and Keyword

Statement
The ABAP programming language consists of the following
element types: STATEMENT, KEYWORD, COMMENT.
An ABAP program consists of individual ABAP statements.
Each statement begins with a keyword and ends with a
period. There might be comment in the same line as a
statement
For example:
PROGRAM ZTEST.

WRITE Hello world.

In this case program ZTEST will generate the list consist of


line Hello world.

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Keywords
Declarative keywords :

define data types or declare the data objects

Modularization keywords : define processing blocks in an ABAP program

Event keyword :The respective processing blocks are processed as

soon as a particular event occurs

Define keyword: define processing blocks that are processed as

soon as they are called by an explicit statement in an ABAP program or in a


screen flow logic

Control keywords: control the flow of an ABAP program according to certain


conditions

Calling keywords: call processing blocks (defined by modularization


keywords) in the same or other ABAP programs or branch completely to other
ABAP programs

Expression and Operation keywords: Process the data

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Declarative keywords
TYPES create user-defined elementary data types and structured data types
Example TYPES: surname(20) TYPE C.
DATA define local/global variable for structure/internal table/memory block
address OCCURS 0
Example DATA: BEGIN OF address,
address_number(10) TYPE C,
street(30),

Internal
structure
table

country LIKE T001-LAND1,


END OF address.
TABLES create a data object called a table work area refer to ABAP
dictionary(tables, structure,view)
Example TABLES: KNA1, KNB1.
CONSTANTS declare it as a fixed value variable
Example CONSTANTS: name(10) VALUE Exxon Mobil

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Modularization keywords
Event define keywords
INITIALIZATION

Before selection screen is displayed

AT SELECTION-SCREEN

After input selection screen + selection screen is active

START-OF-SELECTION

After process selection screen

GET <table>

when logical DB offer a line of database table

END-OF-SELECTION

After all selection has been done

TOP-OF-PAGE

Process when new page is started

END-OF-PAGE

Process when page is ended

AT LINE-SELECTION

When user select line in the list

AT USER-COMMAND

When user press function key/enter command in


command field

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Modularization keywords (cont)


Process define key word for statement block
FORM...ENDFORM

Define subroutine

FUNCTION...ENDFUNCTION
Define Function module
MODULE...ENDMODULE
After process selection screen

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Built in function
Arithmetic & string function
ABS
SIGN

Amount (absolute value) x von x


Sign of x;
SIGN( x ) = 1 if
x>0
SIGN( x ) = 0 if
x=0
SIGN( x ) = -1 if
x<0

CEIL
FLOOR
TRUNC
FRAC
STRLEN

Smallest integer value that is not less than x


Largest integer value that is not greater than x
Interger part of x
Decimal part of x
String length

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

1. SELECT statements
2. SAP tables vs. Internal Tables
3. LOOP-ENDLOOP
4. WRITE statements
5. Comment in ABAP
6. Expressions and Operations in ABAP
7. Subroutines: FORMS, FUNCTION MODULE

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

SELECT statement
to read table entries (records) from a table (database)
the return code is stored in system field SY-SUBRC
- 0: if one or more table entries were retrieved
- 4: if no table entries were retrieved (table is
empty/ no data match the criteria)

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)


SELECT statement
For selecting 1 or more records from a table:

SELECT * FROM <dbtab>


Additions
. . . WHERE <condition>
. . . ORDER BY PRIMARY KEY
. . . ORDER BY <f1> <f2> . . . <fn>

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

SELECT statement
For selecting individual columns from a table:

SELECT <f1> . . . <fn> INTO (<h1> . . . <hn>)


FROM <dbtab> . . .

For selecting a single record from a table:

SELECT SINGLE * FROM <dtab>


WHERE <condition>.

( full key )

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)


SELECT statement
For excluding duplicates:

SELECT DISTINCT <f1> <f2> . . . <fn>


INTO (<g1> <g2> . . . <gn>)
FROM <dbtab> . . .
Aggregate expressions:

SELECT

AVG( <f1> )
COUNT( DISTINCT <f1> )
COUNT( * )
MAX( <f1> )
MIN( <f1> )
SUM( <f1>

FROM <dbtab> . . .
INTO (<g1> . . . <gn>)

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

SAP Table

Two dimensional matrix describing


relationship in database system
Components:

Table fields
Foreign keys
Technical Settings
Indexes

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Internal Table
One way to process large quantities of data in ABAP
Internal table is a dynamic sequential dataset in which
all records have the same structure and a key
The data is taken from a fixed structure, stored line by
line in the memory

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Internal Table Declaration <No header line>


TYPES:
BEGIN OF T_T001K,
BWKEY LIKE T001K-BWKEY,
BUKRS LIKE T001K-BUKRS,
END OF T_T001K.
DATA:
IT_T001K TYPE T_T001K OCCURS 0.

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Internal Table Declaration <With header line>


DATA:
BEGIN OF IT_T001K OCCURS 0,
BWKEY LIKE T001K-BWKEY,
BUKRS LIKE T001K-BUKRS,
END OF IT_T001K.
WITH HEADER LINE

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)


SAP --> Internal table
Allows us to get contents of table and put it into internal
table
SELECT <field1> <field2>.. <fieldn>
FROM <table>
INTO TABLE <internal table>
WHERE <condition>

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

LOOP Command
To perform looping operation in the flow logic
Four kinds of loops in ABAP:
Unconditional loops using the DO statement
Conditional loops using the WHILE statement
Loops through internal tables and extract datasets
using the LOOP statement
Loops through datasets from database tables using
SELECT statement

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

DO Command
DO

<n>

TIMES.

statements

ENDDO.

SY-INDEX

Loop index

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)


WHILE Command
WHILE <logical expression>.
statements

ENDWHILE.
SY-INDEX

Loop index

WHILE COUNTER > 0.


.
.
.
SUBTRACT 1 FROM COUNTER.
ENDWHILE.

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

LOOP Command Example

LOOP AT IT_T001K.
WRITE: / IT_T001K-BWKEY.
ENDLOOP.

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

WRITE Command
The basic ABAP statement for displaying data on the
screen
WRITE <f> <AT position(length)>
<option>
<AS CHECKBOX>
<AS SYMBOL>
<AS ICON>
<AS LINE>

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

WRITE Command
<OPTION> behind the WRITE statement is for formatting options
E.g. : ..NO-ZERO, NO-SIGN, No GROUPING, DD/MM/YY,

LEFT-JUSTIFIED, CENTERED, RIGHT-JUSTIFIED


The most commonly used options:
CURRENCY w
to treat the content of field <f> as a currency amount with w as a
currency key
DECIMALS d
to determine number of decimals to be displayed
UNIT u
to format the value according to the unit specified in the field u.
The content of field <f> is treated as a quantity.

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

WRITE Command Example

WRITE: / Write.
WRITE: it_bseg-dmbtr CURRENCY it_bkpf-hwaer.
WRITE: text-t01 LEFT-JUSTIFIED.

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Comment
Written between statements of the ABAP program to
explain its purpose to a reader / for internal
documentation
Helps to understand and change the program
Flagged by special character:
Asterisk (*) entire line to be a comment
Double quotation mark () part of a line to be a
comment
Ignored by the system

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Comment example
* Write Sales Order number to the screen
Write: Sales Order : ,
20 it_vbak-vbeln. Sales Order Number

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Expression & Operation

Relational Operator
String Comparison
Logical Expression
If/Case/Check Statement
Exit/Continue Statement

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Display

Relational Operator

EQ =

Equal to

NE <> ><

Not equal to

GT >

Greater than

GE >= =>

Greater than or equal to

LT <

Smaller than

LE <= =<

Smaller than or equal to

DATA: START TYPE D,


BETWEEN f1 and f2
SUM1
TYPE F,
SUM2
TYPE P.
IS INITIAL
.
.
.
IF START IS INITIAL ... .
IF SUM1 GT SUM2 ... .
IF SUM1
... .

Meaning

BETWEEN 0 AND 100

Interval
Initial value

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)


String Comparison
<f1> CO <f2>
contains only: f1 contains only characters from f2
ACCOUNT CO '0123456789'
<f1>

CA

<f2>

<f1> CS <f2>
'ABCDE'
CS
<f1> CP <f2>

'ABXDE'

CP

contains any: f1 contains at least one character


from f2
contains string: f1 contains the string f2

'DE'
contains pattern: f1 corresponds to the model f2
Model:
* any string
+ any character
# escape symbol
'*B+D*'

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Logical Expression
1. AND
2. OR
3. NOT

COUNTER GE 0
COUNTER GT 0 AND
FLAG IS INITIAL
( FLAG1 NE SPACE OR FLAG2
NE SPACE ) AND COUNTER
BETWEEN 0 AND 100
COUNTER EQ 0 AND NOT
( FLAG1 EQ SPACE AND FLAG2
EQ SPACE )

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

IF Statement

IF <logical expression>.
statements

ENDIF.
IF <logical expression>.
statements

ELSE.
ENDIF.

statements

IF <logical expression>.
statements

ELSEIF <logical expression>.


statements

ELSEIF <logical expression>.


statements

ELSE.
statements

ENDIF.

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

CASE statement

Execute different
statement blocks
depending on the contents
of particular data fields
WHEN OTHERS:
contents of <field>
does not equal to any
of the <value?>
contents

CASE <field>.
WHEN <value1>.
statements

WHEN <value2>.
statements

WHEN <value3>.
statements

WHEN OTHERS.
statements

ENDCASE.

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

CHECK statement
1

CHECK <logical expression>.


CHECK within a loop structure.
WHILE COUNTER GT 0.

Within Loop:
to terminate loop
pass conditionally

statements

CHECK FLAG NE SPACE.


statements

ENDWHILE.
2

CHECK outside loop structures.


statements

CHECK <condition>.
statements

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Terminate loop
entirely without
any condition
Terminate a
subroutine
without any
condition

EXIT.
1

EXIT within a loop structure.


DO ...

statements

IF COUNTER GE 100.
EXIT.
ENDIF.
statements

ENDDO.
EXIT outside loop structure.
statements

IF ... .
EXIT.
ENDIF.

statements

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

CONTINUE.

DO 100 TIMES.

Terminate loop
pass
immediately
without any
condition

statements

IF SY-INDEX GE 10
AND SY-INDEX LE 20.
CONTINUE.
ENDIF.
statements

ENDDO.

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

PROGRAM RSDEMO01.
Call calculate_tax
..
.
Subroutine
Calculate_tax
PROGRAM RSDEMO02.
..
.
Call calculate_tax
..
.
PROGRAM RSDEMO03.
..
.
Call calculate_tax
Function module

Avoid redundancy
Modularization:
easy to read
easy to call
PROGRAM RSDEMO04.
Subroutine SUB1
Subroutine
Calculate_tax
ABAP/4 function library

Function module
Calculate_tax

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

Define
FORM <name> [<parameters>].
<statement block>
ENDFORM.
Calling internally
PERFORM <name> [<parameters>].
Calling external subroutine
PERFORM <name>(program name) <parameters>
[IF FOUND]

ABAP statement and Keyword(cont)

form f_check_file_exists using filename.


.............
endform.

Parameters:
p_path like rlgrap-filename.
..............................
perform f_check_file_exists using p_path.

Content
 Introduction R/3 Basis system overview
 ABAP/4 overview
Component, Program, ABAP dictionary, Function Module ,
Message/Transaction code, etc.

 Common Statement / Command


- Main event in ABAP program
- General ABAP command

 Transportation for ABAP objects


 Type of problem and how to investigate
Program bug, ABAP runtime error, Update terminate, Unexpected
error message.

Transportation of ABAP objects

Type of ABAP object


In Workbench organizer, there are several ABAP objects which are transportable
Object In Transport request contain the following key

PgmID:

Program Id in request and task, normally there are 2 types for ABAP objects
R3TR - name for R/3 Repository objects and Customizing objects

LIMU - enables transport of R/3 Repository object components


Obj:
Object type (for example, DOMA, DTEL, FORM, PROG..)
Object name:
Name of the each object
Funct.: Function D,K,M
ObjStatus: LOCKED,ERR_IMP,OK_IMP and OK_GEN

Transportation of ABAP objects (cont)

Version management
serves different purposes and user groups:
- The developer can keep track of his or her work ("What have I changed?")
- The developer can restore a previous version by reactivating it.
- The system administrator can monitor work ("Which objects were changed and
how were they changed in a specific time interval?")
- It provides the basis for the auditor, who requires a complete history of
changes.
- It enables customers to adjust data with the help of the system after upgrading
to a new Release.

Transportation of ABAP objects (cont)

ABAP object Version compare


ABAP program
Transaction code SE38, Under menu Utilities-->Version management
Function module
Transaction code SE37, Under menu Utilities-->Version management
Data Dictionary
Transaction code SE11, Under menu Utilities-->Version management
Object Browser
Transaction code SE80, Go to specific object and under menu utilities,
Version management
Workbench Organization
Transaction code SE09, under menu Environment

Transportation of ABAP objects (cont)

ABAP object Version compare


From Version management, you can
1. Display the object in other version
2. Compare the object in 2 versions
3. Retrieve the content of older version
4. Remote compare with another system
5. Display Transport Request

Content

 Introduction R/3 Basis system overview


 ABAP/4 overview
Component, Program, ABAP dictionary, Function Module ,
Message/Transaction code, etc.

 Common Statement / Command


- Main event in ABAP program
- General ABAP command

 Transportation for ABAP objects


 Type of problem and how to investigate
Program bug, ABAP runtime error, Update terminate, Unexpected
error message.

Type of problem & How to investigate

Type of problems
ABAP Runtime Error
Cause: Program error, system exception, database process error, etc.
Using transaction code ST22 to analyze error.

Unexpected message
Update Terminate
Cause: Update module can not be completed

Program bug
Cause: Written code is not correct

ABAP Runtime error - Analysis


Error ID

Date and time

Double click to
display detail

Unexpected message

How to deal with unexpected message?


1. Go to Message long text if available.
2. Read through the section in the message help text, process where
appropriate.
Message help text component
Diagnosis
System response
Procedure
3. Find the message location, the logic that drive the message
appearance.
Debugging
Use Where used list function to find out the code where
message is located (Not applicable for dynamic call)

Unexpected message (cont)


How to debug and locate the message in the program?
1. Debugging
Set Debugger ON
In Debugging screen, Set dynamic breakpoint on command Message
Select debugging -> Continue (F8)
When program reach MESSAGE command, cursor will be stopped
Check the above logic before get into the current command, see the
related data/value from debugging screen.
2. Using Where used list Function in message workbench SE91/SE80
When message is displayed, Double click on the status bar(if the
message appear only in status bar , not popup) OR press F1 for popup
message.
Go to transaction code SE91/SE80 to find the location of the message
call.

Update terminate

Update terminate: Message/SAP internal mail will be sent to the


transaction owner, either Error message Or ABAP runtime error (short
dump) might be created.
Analyzing the error
Go to transaction code SM13 to analyze the update error.
(Or Select Tools --> Administration --> Monitoring --> Update)
Go to detail in update modules, You will get the following information:
Where the error occurred: Program name, function module, line
number and error text. (go to ABAP short dump Or Editor to locate the
position)
Why the error occurred:

Program bug

Analyzing the error


1. Find out what went wrong.
2. Locate the position in the ABAP program
How to find the right place?
1. Debugging
2. Use Call Hierarchy (SE48)
3. Use find function in ABAP editor

Simple Debugging

How to:
Switch on the debugger.
Set and delete static and dynamic breakpoints.
Set Watch points.
Stop a program at specific key words or events or when a fields
contents change.
Continue processing after an interrupt.
Display field contents during runtime.
Display the contents of an internal table.
Change field contents for testing purposes.
Change the contents of an internal table.
Display and use the debuggers six different views.

Simple Debugging
Start debugging:
/h
Start the debugger in Normal mode. Press enter to start.
/hs
Start the Debugger in System mode, for example, in order to debug
the system program (program with type S)
Appropriate menu options under system -> Utilities -> Debug ABAP
Break-points Command.
SE38 Start of programs in the debugging of transaction code SE38
SM50/SM51 via debugging menu
SE80 - Object browser

Simple Debugging
Set and delete static and dynamic breakpoints
Static break-point
Command BREAK-POINT. Or BREAK <User name>

Dynamic break-point
In ABAP Editor SE38 --> Utilities --> Breakpoints --> Display/Set
In Debugging mode
Place the cursor on the statement
Choosing break-point -> Set/Delete

At ABAP command
At Event/Subroutine
At Function module
System exception

Simple Debugging

Stepping

Display mode

Single step (F5)

Field : Display content of fields up to 8 fields

Execute (F6)

Table: Display content of internal table

Return (F7)

Watchpoints: Manage watchpoint during debug mode

Continue (F8)

Calls : Display Call stack up to current statement (in


sequence)
Overview: structure of program, display event, sub
routine, module and current statement

Simple Debugging
Caution when debugging in Production system
Since only a restricted number of dialog work processes can be
switched to debugging mode, you should leave the debugger as soon as
possible when you have finished working with it. Otherwise, the work
process is not released for other users

Question ??

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