Sometimes, we get an ABAP spec where we need to steal the data from a standard SAP report. Or; the analyst wants to add new fields to a standard report and we decide that it's better to steal the data + add our own fields in a Z-report instead of repairing the system. If it … Continue reading How to Steal Data from Standard SAP Reports

OK guys, here are some quick tips that might save you an hour or two. If you rent a server on http://cal.sap.com and can't connect with Eclipse, it is because the port 3390 is disabled by default. All you need to do is enable that port and voila! Here is a screenshot of a configuration … Continue reading SAP Cloud Application Library Connectivity

In a SAP blog post, the usage of Eclipse or SE80 is compared. I would like to share my reply to the thread, which pretty much summarizes my point of view. You can’t use SAP’s new tools in SE80, and this is not a small disregardable detail, IMHO. Being brutally honest; if a programmer says … Continue reading Eclipse vs SE80 for ABAP

To see if internal table access via Mesh is faster / slower than the traditional method, I decided to make a simple performance test. Here is the source code: REPORT ztest. PARAMETERS: p_matnr TYPE matnr OBLIGATORY, p_meins TYPE meins OBLIGATORY. CLASS main DEFINITION. PUBLIC SECTION. TYPES: BEGIN OF t_material, matnr TYPE mara-matnr, maktx TYPE makt-maktx, … Continue reading ABAP Mesh Performance Test

This article has been featured by SAP among March & April 2019 contributions.https://blogs.sap.com/2019/05/16/featured-blog-contributors-march-april-2019/ Today, I would like to demonstrate a very simple but effective programming habit that I use in ABAP development: TODO based coding. The idea is to plant TODO comments into the code (typically among multiple programs / classes) before actually starting to … Continue reading Todo Based Coding in ABAP

Fiori danışmanı bir arkadaşım, gittiği bir projede yaşadığı durumu anlattı. Klasik ABAP ile yazılmış karmaşık bazı programları, Fiori ile Web ortamına açmaları gerekmiş. Proje yöneticisi, "Çalışan programa dokunmayın" yaklaşımıyla; programlardaki kodları kopyala & yapıştır ile çoğaltarak RFC fonksiyonlarına çevirtmeye başlamış. Bu hikayede o kadar çok kırmızı alarm var ki, nereden başlayacağımı bilemiyorum. Öncelikle; en baştan … Continue reading Fiori İçin Kod Kopyalamak