Book Image

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 trace analysis


The next tool available for trace analysis is Single Transaction Analysis, available at the ST12 transaction. Similarly to ABAP Runtime Analysis, described in the previous part, this transaction also welcomes the user with a configuration screen, containing several parameters, as shown the following screenshot:

The main section, namely Trace for, is suitable for defining the target of the trace with four categories:

  • User/Tasks: This allows for enabling a trace for a specific user, on a specific server, optionally limiting the scope to a specific task type—Dialog, Batch job, Update, Incoming RFC call, HTTP request/BSP, SMTP request, or Shared obj. area contr.
  • Workprocess: This allows the user to trace a particular work process currently running on the system
  • Current mode: This runs a particular transaction or program with a trace enabled; tracing ends simultaneously with the transaction.
  • Schedule: This allows scheduling the trace for a specific timeframe; the scheduled trace...