List of ABAP Program Names Used in DFs

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We are preparing an upgrade from 4.0 to 4.2. Generate and Execute has always been used, but moving to Execute Preloaded for the first time. We have accidentally discovered one collision with a custom ABAP program name and we need to see if there are others, so looking to pull a list of all ABAP Program Names used in ABAP Data Flows.

Does anyone know which repository table carries the ABAP Program Name as found on the properties sheet of an ABAP Data Flow? I would have thought AL_ATTR, but it’s not jumping out at me yet…

petersjd (BOB member since 2003-11-21)

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Maybe AL_SAP_JOB?

eganjp :us: (BOB member since 2007-09-12)

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That was probably the 2nd or 3rd place I looked. No luck. The Description text on the ABAP Data Flow Properties sheet IS in AL_ATTR, however. But no sign of the ABAP Program Name.

petersjd (BOB member since 2003-11-21)

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I would then start looking through AL_LANG where NAME looks like your ABAP objects.

I don’t work with the SAP backend, so I’m guessing here. They cram a lot into AL_LANG.

eganjp :us: (BOB member since 2007-09-12)

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Thanks, Jim. While it wasn’t there in AL_LANG, it put me on a better course. I did find it crammed into the TEXT_VALUE column in AL_LANGTEXT. Of course, it’s embedded with every other attribute, and text lines are split over multiple rows, so it will be a bear to get a list out of there.

Sometimes they keep information like that in more than one table, though…

petersjd (BOB member since 2003-11-21)