Materials Management Tables

EINA	Purchasing Info Record- General Data
EINE	Purchasing Info Record- Purchasing Organization Data
MAKT	Material Descriptions
MARA	General Material Data
MARC	Plant Data for Material
MARD	Storage Location Data for Material
MAST	Material to BOM Link
MBEW	Material Valuation
MKPF	Header- Material Document
MSEG	Document Segment- Material
MVER	Material Consumption
MVKE	Sales Data for materials
RKPF	Document Header- Reservation
T023	Mat. groups
T024	Purchasing Groups
T156	Movement Type
T157H	Help Texts for Movement Types

BASIS/ABAP T-CODES

T-Codes for BASIS/ABAP

USMM	Pressing F8 will display all hotpacks applied.
SEARCH_SAP_MENU	Show the menu path to use to execute a given tcode. You can search by transaction code or menu text.
DI02	ABAP/4 Repository Information System: Tables.
LSMW	Legacy System Migration Workbench. An addon available from SAP that can make data converstion a lot easier. Thanks to Serge Desland for this one.
OSS1	SAP Online Service System
OY19	Compare Tables
SM13	Update monitor. Will show update tasks status. Very useful to determine why an update failed.
S001	ABAP Development Workbench
S001	ABAP/4 Development Weorkbench. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
S002	System Administration. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
SA38	Execute a program. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
SCAT	Computer Aided Test Tool
SCU0	Compare Tables
SE01	Old Transport & Corrections screen
SE03	Groups together most of the tools that you need for doing transports. In total, more than 20 tools can be reached from this one transaction.
SE09	Workbench Organizer
SE10	New Transport & Correction screen
SE11	ABAP/4 Dictionary Maintenance SE12 ABAP/4 Dictionary Display SE13 Maintain Technical Settings (Tables)
SE12	Dictionary: Initial Screen - enter object name. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
SE13	Access tables in ABAP/4 Dictionary. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
SE14	Utilities for Dictionary Tables
SE15	ABAP/4 Repository Information System
SE16	Data Browser: Initial Screen. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
SE16N	Table Browser (the N stands for New, it replaces SE16). Provided by Smijo Mathew.
SE17	General Table Display
SE24	Class Builder
SE30	ABAP/4 Runtime Analysis
SE32	ABAP/4 Text Element Maintenance
SE35	ABAP/4 Dialog Modules
SE36	ABAP/4: Logical Databases
SE37	ABAP/4 Function Modules
SE38	ABAP Editor
SE39	Splitscreen Editor: Program Compare
SE41	Menu Painter
SE43	Maintain Area Menu
SE48	Show program call hierarchy. Very useful to see the overall structure of a program. Thanks to Isabelle Arickx for this tcode.
SE49	Table manipulation. Show what tables are behind a transaction code. Thanks to Isabelle Arickx for this tcode.
SE51	Screen Painter: Initial Screen. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
SE54	Generate View Maintenance Module
SE61	R/3 Documentation
SE62	Industry utilities
SE63	Translation
SE64	Terminology
SE65	R/3 document. short text statistics SE66 R/3 Documentation Statistics (Test!)
SE68	Translation Administration
SE71	SAPscript layout set
SE71	SAPScript Layouts Create/Change
SE72	SAPscript styles
SE73	SAPscript font maintenance (revised)
SE74	SAPscript format conversion
SE75	SAPscript Settings
SE76	SAPscript Translation Layout Sets
SE77	SAPscript Translation Styles
SE80	ABAP/4 Development Workbench
SE81	SAP Application Hierarchy
SE82	Customer Application Hierarchy
SE83	Reuse Library. Provided by Smiho Mathew.
SE84	ABAP/4 Repository Information System
SE85	ABAP/4 Dictionary Information System
SE86	ABAP/4 Repository Information System
SE87	Data Modeler Information System
SE88	Development Coordination Info System
SE91	Maintain Messages
SE92	Maintain system log messages
SE93	Maintain Transaction. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
SEARCH_SAP_MENU	From the SAP Easy Access screen, type it in the command field and you will be able to search the standard SAP menu for transaction codes / keywords. It will return the nodes to follow for you.
SEU	Object Browser
SHD0	Transaction variant maintenance
SM04	Overview of Users (cancel/delete sessions)
SM12	Lock table entries (unlock locked tables)
SM21	View the system log, very useful when you get a short dump. Provides much more info than short dump
SM30	Maintain Table Views. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
SM31	Table Maintenance
SM32	Table maintenance
SM35	View Batch Input Sessions
SM37	View background jobs
SM50	Process Overview. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
SM51	Delete jobs from system (BDC)
SM62	Display/Maintain events in SAP, also use function BP_EVENT_RAISE
SMEN	Display the menu path to get to a transaction
SMOD/CMOD	Transactions for processing/editing/activating new customer enhancements.
SNRO	Object browser for number range maintenance. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
SPRO	Start SAP IMG (Implementation Guide). (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
SQ00	ABAP/4 Query: Start Queries
SQ01	ABAP/4 Query: Maintain Queries
SQ02	ABAP/4 Query: Maintain Funct. Areas
SQ03	ABAP/4 Query: Maintain User Groups
SQ07	ABAP/4 Query: Language Comparison
ST05	Trace SQL Database Requests. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
ST22	ABAP Dump analysis
SU53	Display Authorization Values for User. (from john.omeara@syskoplan.ie)
WEDI	EDI Menu. IDOC and EDI base.
WE02	Display an IDOC
WE07	IDOC Statistics

ABAP Interview Questions

Top ABAP Interview Questions:

1. What is the typical structure of an ABAP/4 program?

HEADER ,BODY,FOOTER.

2. What are field symbols and field groups.?
Have you used "component idx of structure" clause with field groups?

Field symbols:-
Field groups :-

3. What should be the approach for writing a BDC program?

STEP 1: CONVERTING THE LEGACY SYSTEM DATA TO A FLAT FILE to internal table CALLED "CONVERSION".
STEP 2: TRANSFERING THE FLAT FILE INTO SAP SYSTEM CALLED "SAP DATA TRANSFER".
STEP 3: DEPENDING UPON THE BDC TYPE i)call transaction(Write the program explicity)
ii) create sessions (sessions are created and processed.if success data will transfer).

4. What is a batch input session?

BATCH INPUT SESSION is an intermediate step between internal table and database table.
Data along with the action is stored in session ie data for screen fields, to which screen it is passed,program name behind it, and how next screen is processed.

5. What is the alternative to batch input session?

Call transaction.

6. A situation: An ABAP program creates a batch input session.
We need to submit the program and the batch session in back ground. How to do it?

Please go to SM36 and create background job by giving job name,job class and job steps (JOB SCHEDULING)

8. What are the problems in processing batch input sessions?
How is batch input process different from processing online?

PROBLEMS:-

i) If the user forgets to opt for keep session then the session will be automatically removed from the session queue(log remains). However if session is processed we may delete it manually.
ii)if session processing fails data will not be transferred to SAP database table.

10. What are the different types of data dictionary objects?

tables, structures, views, domains, data elements, lock objects, Matchcode objects.

11. How many types of tables exists and what are they in data dictionary?

4 types of tables
i)Transparent tables - Exists with the same structure both in dictionary as well as in database exactly with the same data and fields. Both Opensql and Nativesql can be used.
ii)Pool tables & iii)Cluster tables -
These are logical tables that are arranged as records of transparent tables.one cannot use native sql on these tables
(only opensql).They are not managable directly using database system tools.
iv)Internal tables - .

12. What is the step by step process to create a table in data dictionary?

step 1: creating domains(data type,field length,range).
step 2: creating data elements(properties and type for a table
field).
step 3: creating tables(SE11).

13. Can a transparent table exist in data dictionary but not in the data base physically?
No. Transporent tables do exist with the same structure, both in the dictionary as well as in database, exactly with the same data and the fields.

14. What are the domains and data elements?

DOMAINS : FORMAL DEFINITION OF THE DATA TYPES.THEY SET ATTRIBUTES SUCH AS DATA TYPE,LENGTH,RANGE.
DATA ELEMENT : A FIELD IN R/3 SYSTEM IS A DATA ELEMENT.

15. Can you create a table with fields not referring to data elements?

YES. eg:- ITAB LIKE SPFLI.here we are referening to a data object(SPFLI) not data element.

16. What is the advantage of structures? How do you use them in the ABAP programs?

The most important advantage of the structures is that they have global existence (i.e.; these could be used by any other program without creating it again).

17. What does an extract statement do in the ABAP program?

Once you have declared the possible record types as field groups and defined their structure, you can fill the extract dataset using the following statements:
EXTRACT .

When the first EXTRACT statement occurs in a program, the system creates the extract dataset and adds the first extract record to it. In each subsequent EXTRACT statement, the new extract record is added to the dataset

EXTRACT HEADER.
When you extract the data, the record is filled with the current values of the corresponding fields.
As soon as the system has processed the first EXTRACT statement for a field group , the structure of the corresponding extract record in the extract dataset is fixed. You can no longer insert new fields into the field groups and HEADER. If you try to modify one of the field groups afterwards and use it in another EXTRACT statement, a runtime error occurs.

By processing EXTRACT statements several times using different field groups, you fill the extract dataset with records of different length and structure. Since you can modify field groups dynamically up to their first usage in an EXTRACT statement, extract datasets provide the advantage that you need not determine the structure at the beginning of the program.

18. What is a collect statement? How is it different from append?

If an entry with the same key already exists, the COLLECT statement does not append a new line, but adds the contents of the numeric fields in the work area to the contents of the numeric fields in the existing entry.