Max Titov IV @ TechSplice

SAP: IDES ECC6 [EHP5] – disable devaccess check

The proper solution is to register for a Developer access key from SAP, but in cases when you can’t do that there’s always a work-around.

I’ve set up a personal IDES system on my home computer and ran in to this problem.  Debugging the code I’ve identified that the function that performs the checks is DEVELOPER_KEY_CHECK.

The FM is very small, looks like this:

  CALL ’CHECK_DEVELOPER_KEY’ ID ’KEY’    FIELD DEVELOPKEY.
CASE SY-SUBRC.
WHEN 1.
RAISE PARAMETERS_WRONG.
WHEN 2.
RAISE WRONG_KEY.
ENDCASE.

The hack/crack is to change the code to overwrite the OS command that returns 1 or 2.

Modification of the source SAP code is also tricky, you need to log in using user SAP, go to the FM DEVELOPER_KEY_CHECK – click change, using the debugger make sure the change can be allowed [update the sy-subrc to 0 when applicable] and add something like COMMIT WORK statement after the OS call which will overwrite the SY-SUBRC value to 0.

SAP: ALV grid Field Catalog [ref_table] SAPLSKBH & [source code of program " "] error

I’ve came across a strange error that occurred while building an SAP ALV grid.  After calling the create_dynamic_table method of the CL_ALV_TABLE_CREATE object the program throws a hard error complaining about a blank program call in SAPLSKBH .

After spending some time debugging I’ve identified that based on custom reference table parameters the  source 4.6C SAP code attempts to generate a dynamic program using a GENERATE REPORT prog call.  When the attempt fails instead of returning a corresponding error message the algorithm throws an error about a blank program pointer that failed to be created.

Here’s the problematic code – while debugging examining the l_message parameter will identify the true cause of the failure.

  catch system-exceptions generate_subpool_dir_full = 9.
    generate subroutine pool lt_source name l_name
             message l_message line l_line word l_word.
  endcatch.
  case sy-subrc.
    when 0.
    when 9.
      raise generate_subpool_dir_full.
    when others.
      message x000(0k) with l_message l_line l_word.
  endcase.

SAP: EDI: Conversion of External Tax Rate

T076M is a standard SAP table available within R/3 SAP systems depending on your version and release level. Below is the standard documentation available for this table and a few details of the fields which make up this table.

Transaction: OBCD can be used to maintain the contents.

SAP: the basics of smart forms

TR: SMARTFORMS – sap form builder – create and edit a smart form object

TR: SE63 – translate objects – can be used to translate smart form data to a different language

SAP: transport SO10 text data

To transport text data follow these steps:

1. Execute program RSTXTRAN
2. Provide Text key and language
3. Select desired text elements
4. Click continue button [green checkbox]
5. Click “Trsfr texts to corr.” button
6. Create a new transport object and continue