Abap data parser - open source TAB-delimited text parser
Hi Community ! I'd like to share a piece of code which might be useful for someone. It is called abap data parser. Its purpose is parsing of TAB-delimited text into an arbitrary flat structure or...
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A timestamp is a sequence of characters or encoded information identifying when a certain event occurred, usually giving date and time of day, sometimes accurate to a small fraction of a second....
View ArticleA small tip to find message id and number by repository information system
Normally if we see a message in SAPGUI and we can just double click the message icon to get its technical detail like message id and number displayed.However in some case the icon is not available for...
View ArticleDo not Test with WRITE
In a recent discussion I've seen someone was testing whether a loop was executed by placing a WRITE statement inside. Maybe it was a beginner's error but maybe others tend to do that too. Since the...
View ArticleHow to fetch *nicely* 2 values from ITAB-Row?
I started this already via Twitterhow to fetch or map two values from an internal table if you are not interested in the whole line Input: lt_vbpa (just an internal table with some more columns )...
View ArticleHow to identify Non-unicode characters in a Text file
Hello Folks,Usually we encounter a scenario where a program goes for a dump due to conversion errors while using Open/Read Dataset to read .txt files lying on the Application server.For ex below is the...
View ArticleA tale of two SAP incidents
Summer is a strange time for SAP teams: lots of people go on holiday, projects are left to tick over, burning issues are put on hold. A time for those who remain to take it easy a while, take a look at...
View ArticleSAP Australia User Group Conference 2016
SAP Australia User Group Annual Summit 2016 5th/6th September 2016, Hilton Hotel, Sydney Before I start - last time I created a blog on SCN I was able to attach pictures, and have formatting e.g....
View ArticleA simple tool to display product hierarchy in an ALV tree
Recently I start to study SD and I found the product hierarchy in transaction code V/76 could not be viewed in tree style and it is not so convenient to check:So I wrote a simple report to retrieve...
View ArticleQuick take on Dump with exception LCX_VALIDATION_ERROR in PPM
Hi all, Here I am with my first blog, probably first on any platform This is about an issue which I faced on my current project recently. Many of the users and team members started getting below error...
View ArticleSAP Communicator 2.0 Part 1
Followed to my last blog,Let's Chat in SAP GUI The same application has been enhanced with lots of more new options, which we all use so often in...
View ArticleSAP Communicator 2.0 Part 2
Hi, Continue to part 1 of SAP Communicator 2.0 SAP Communicator 2.0 Part 1Chat Screen Characteristics Selected use will be display under blue circle and the...
View ArticleAdding Incompletion log entries to Incompletion Log Internal Table XVBUV
The in-completion log reminds you when data important for further processing is missing from the sales document.When you enter a sales document, the system usually proposes much of the necessary data...
View ArticleWaiting for lock objects to release - using lock modes U and V
Over the last couple of weeks, I had the same question posed to me a couple of times, so I thought I would share this in a blog post. There are several times in programming that you are calling a set...
View ArticleSelection Screen Variants
What are variants? In SAP ABAP reports have a mechanism for entering values for database selection or for performing different calculations through SELECTION SCREENS. Selection screen provides a user...
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