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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By : Rehan Zaidi
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SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook

By: Rehan Zaidi

Overview of this book

ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is SAP's proprietary 4th Generation Language (4GL). SAP core is written almost entirely in ABAP.ABAP is a high level programming language used in SAP for development and other customization processes."SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook"ù covers advanced SAP programming applications with ABAP. It teaches you to enhance SAP applications by developing custom reports and interfaces with ABAP programming. This cookbook has quick and advanced real world recipes for programming ABAP.It begins with the applications of ABAP Objects and ALV tips and tricks. It then covers Design Patterns and Dynamic Programming in detail.You will also learn the usage of quality improvement tools such as transaction SAT, SQL Trace, and the Code Inspector.Simple transformations and its application in Excel Downloading will also be discussed, as well as the newest topics of Adobe Interactive Forms and the consumption and creation of Web services. The book comes to an end by covering advanced usage of Web Dynpro for ABAP and the latest advancement in Floorplan Manager.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
SAP ABAP Advanced Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Hashed table for single read access


In this recipe, we will create a program that will use a hashed table and a standard table for accessing and displaying employee data from two tables PA0003 and PA0006. There may be many solutions to this requirement. We will use SELECT clause and hashed tables.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we create a program that will take as input personnel number and then print the last payroll run date of the employee (from PA0003) and the permanent residence address (subtype 1) stored in the STRAS field of the table PA0006. For simplicity's sake, only one data field of each table has been shown.

How to do it...

For creating the program, proceed as follows:

  1. We define select-options for taking input of personnel number.

  2. Next, we define a type ty_payroll based on payroll infotype fields pernr and abrdt. A structure and a hashed table based on this type are also defined. The hashed table has a unique key pernr.

  3. Similarly, an address type ty_address is defined, along with...