BC402 - Advanced ABAP

Course Version: 091

Duration: 5 days

Delivery Type

• Instructor-led Classroom

Audience

• Developer
• Consultants

Prerequisites:

Essential

• SAPTEC Fundamentals of SAP NetWeaver Application Server
• BC400 ABAP Workbench Foundations
• BC401 ABAP Objects

Recommended

• practical programming experience in ABAP (Objects)
• BC430 ABAP Dictionary

Goals

• In-depth knowledge of the ABAP programming language to be able to write more robust programs
• The ability to assess ABAP programming techniques according to performance aspects and develop high-performance programs
• Acquire the necessary knowledge to develop dynamic ABAP programs

Course Based on Software Release

• SAP NetWeaver 7.0

Content

• ABAP runtime environment
• Program calls and memory management
• Shared Objects
• ABAP types and data objects in detail
• Unicode
• Work with internal tables in detail
• Work with field symbols and data references
• Dynamic programming
• Runtime type information, runtime type creation
• Complex Open SQL statements
• Analysis tools for programs
• Recommendations and conventions
• Performance rules

Notes

• The topic of the performance of ABAP programs is also subject of the BC490 (ABAP Performance Tuning) course. BC490 focuses on analyzing and eliminating existing performance problems, whereas BC402 is concerned with avoiding performance problems even during the design and implementation of a program.
• The course is also suitable for participants who are using a release older than the one specified (at least SAP R/3 4.6). The topics 'Shared Objects' and 'Runtime Type Creation' are only relevant from SAP Web Application Server 6.40.