Recently, one of my colleagues reminded me of a nice little trick. Typically, it’s more of a last resort, but typically much less painful than the debug method. The Trace functionality found in transaction ST05 which allows you to trace by user or ST01 which can trace through the whole system (not user specific).
The process is pretty simple. Go to ST05 (I encourage you start here, as there will be less to filter through if multiple people are on the system).
Select the trace type:
- SQL Trace (selected by default)
- enqueue trace
- RFC trace
- Buffer trace
- HTTP trace
if it’s a limited amount of data and you aren’t sure, select them all. Otherwise, the SQL trace is usually sufficient.
Press Activate Trace
in a separate window, execute the transaction you want to check.
Press Deactivate Trace.
Press Display Trace.
Execute with the default settings.
Now you’ll have a nice ALV grid. Typically it is easiest to search for a specific program or a specific table to zero in on what you want to see.
Thanks Todd, I completely forgot about this.
Thanks for reading,
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