How to: determine Debit memo Reasons for rejection

In a resource related billing process (DP90) you want to change Debit memo reasons for rejection based on confirmation accounting indicators. The process is the following: a Service orde is created (IW31) to track a “billable” or “not billable” service to be provided. The Service order header accounting indicator defines whether the service order is billable or not.…

How to: Create system (transportable) selection variant

If you want the variant to be transported automatically with its program, you must create a system variant. The name of a system variant starts “CUS&” for customers “SAP&” for SAP system variants. You can only use the “&” character within this prefix in the name of a system variant. It may not occur in…

Getting started: Functional terms

Account determination System function that determines automatically the accounts in financial accounting to which the amount(s) in question should be posted for the user during any posting transaction. AM Asset Management Module Application Link Enabling Application Link Enabling (ALE) supports the creation and operation of distributed applications and application integration is achieved via synchronous and…

Getting started: Technical terms

Application Server: Term “Application server” refers in general to all non-database non-front-end computers. SAP AG uses the term for a family of processes: a dispatcher, some work processes, perhaps a SysLog sending daemon, a CPI-C-server, etc. “Instance” is used interchangeably in these cases. ABAP/4 (Advanced Business Application Programming/4), the Fourth generation programming language developed by…

Transactions: System Tuning

ST01 System Trace ST02 Setups/Tune Buffers ST03 Performance,SAP Statistics, Workload ST04 Select activity of the databases ST05 SQL Trace ST06 Operating System Monitor ST07 Application monitor ST08 Network Monitor ST09 Network Alert Monitor ST10 Table Call Statistics ST11 Display Developer Traces ST12 Application Monitor ST14 Application Analysis ST22 ABAP/4 Runtime Error Analysis ST62 Create industry…

Transactions: Spooling

SP00 Spool and Related Areas SP01 Output Controller SP02 Display Output Requests SP03 Spool: Load Formats SP11 TemSe directory SP12 TemSe Administration SP1T Output Control (Test) SPAD Spool Administration SPAM SAP PATCH MANAGER (SPAM) SPAT Spool Administration (Test) SPAU Display modified DE objects SPBM Monitoring parallel background tasks SPBT Test: Parallel background tasks SPDD Display…

Transactions: System Maintenance

SM01 Lock transactions SM02 System Messages SM04 User Overview SM12 Display and Delete Locks SM13 Display Update Records SM21 System Log. Errors and inconsitencies (alert<SIG>.log.) SM22 Errors and inconsistencies in the operation modes. SM28 Installation Check SM29 Model Transfer for Tables SM30 Call Up View Maintenance SM31 Table Maintenance SM32 Maintain Table Parameter ID TAB…

Transactions: Systems

SA01 Number range maintenance: ADRNR SA02 Academic title (cent. addr. admin.) SA03 Title (central address admin.) SA04 Name prefixes (centr. addr. admin.) SA05 Name suffix (centr. addr. admin.) SA06 Address or personal data source SA07 Address groups (centr. addr. admin.) SA08 Person groups (centr. addr. admin.) SA09 Internat. versions address admin. SA10 Address admin. communication…

Transactions: Workbench

 SE01 Transport and Correction System  SE02 Environment Analyzer  SE03 Transport Utilities  SE06 Set Up Workbench Organizer (Change the write system status)  SE07 Transport System Status Display  SE09 Workbench Organizer  SE10 Customizing Organizer  SE11 ABAP/4 Dictionary Maintenance  SE12 ABAP/4 Dictionary Display  SE13 Maintain Technical Settings (Tables)  SE14 Utilities for Dictionary Tables  SE15 ABAP/4 Repository Information System…

How to: analize table entries

Using Transaction TAANA you are able to analyze how table entries are distributed across specific fields. A table analysis counts the table entries and assigns the number of found entries to the selected field values (for example organizational units, time periods). You can select the fields using analysis variants. Instructions on how to perform a…