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Mastering SAP ABAP

By : Paweł Grześkowiak, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik
Book Image

Mastering SAP ABAP

By: Paweł Grześkowiak, Wojciech Ciesielski, Wojciech Ćwik

Overview of this book

Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) is an established and complex programming language in the IT industry. This book is designed to help you use the latest ABAP techniques and apply legacy constructions using practical examples. You'll start with a quick refresher on language and database concepts, followed by agile techniques for adding custom code to a modern ABAP system. After this, you will get up to speed with the complete ABAP toolset for importing data to and from different environments. Next, you'll learn how to print forms and work with the different ABAP tools for Extensible Markup Language (XML) manipulation. While covering further chapters, you'll gain insights into building stunning UI5 interfaces, in addition to learning how to develop simple apps using the Business Object Processing Framework (BOPF). You will also pick up the technique of handling exceptions and performing testing in ABAP. In the concluding chapters, you can look forward to grasping various techniques for optimizing the performance of programs using a variety of performance analysis tools. By the end of this book, you will have the expertise you need to confidently build maintainable programs in Systems, Applications, and Products (SAP).
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

ABAP runtime analysis


The first tool, which is shown in the following screenshot, is ABAP Runtime Analysis, available as a transaction SE30. Since NetWeaver 7.0, when accessing this t-code, the user is prompted that there is a new transaction (SAT) serving the same purpose and that should be used instead. This new SAT transaction will be described later in this chapter, and here, for backward-compatibility, the old one is described.

The initial screen after launching the transaction shows several parameters, as shown in the following screenshot:

 

Firstly, the user can provide a short description that will identify the measurement and thus make it easy to find afterward. Then, in the Measurement Restrictions section, you can define the Variant of execution. The variant can limit (or extend) the results in several ways. At first, the measurement can be limited to particular programs or subroutines by listing them, as shown in the following screenshot:

The checkboxes toggle the following options...