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Non IT professional Like Financial officers need to access ABAP editor in SAP

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is it okay to Financial manager get access to ABAP editor in SAP? T Code: SE38.

It was noted ABAP base on java, C, C++ and python. If financial professional was not familiar with related programming languages why they ask to assign related Tcode to their user account.

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DominikTylczyn
Active Contributor

Hello winterdd

First of all you need to know why they need to have that access.

Typically such requests are to access reports that don't have a transaction assigned. If this is the case you can either:

  1. Give them access to SA38, that allows to run a raport but doesn't allow to change it or
  2. Create a dedicated transaction for the report.

I can't see any other reason why financial manager would have access to ABAP editor. Definitely don't give them any change or debug privileges.

If you are under pressure and need to push back, just tell them that access to SE38 requires SAP Development user license and ask them for their cost center to allocate the cost of the license, which is substantial. ;))

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski

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Abinathsiva
Active Contributor

Hi winterdd,

It depends on clients, ITGC/SAP/Applications usages policies and why it's required...

DominikTylczyn
Active Contributor

Hello winterdd

First of all you need to know why they need to have that access.

Typically such requests are to access reports that don't have a transaction assigned. If this is the case you can either:

  1. Give them access to SA38, that allows to run a raport but doesn't allow to change it or
  2. Create a dedicated transaction for the report.

I can't see any other reason why financial manager would have access to ABAP editor. Definitely don't give them any change or debug privileges.

If you are under pressure and need to push back, just tell them that access to SE38 requires SAP Development user license and ask them for their cost center to allocate the cost of the license, which is substantial. ;))

Best regards

Dominik Tylczynski

former_member1716
Active Contributor

winterdd,

It depends on the need of this requirement, i suppose since they are financial managers they obviously wont do any coding. Hence you can alternatively support their request by creating a custom T-code and provide them the same.

If they still persist with seeing the code line then give them SA38 t-code access so that they cant edit the code lines.

Before addressing such strange request its better to consult on your organization policies.

Regards!

VeselinaPeykova
Active Contributor

I would not even grant SA38 to business users unless there are valid reasons to do so, and only after confirmation that this is in line with the company policy, that the specific tasks match their job profiles and so on.

One can cause damage also by running reports. I am yet to see a reasonable case where business users require SA38/SE38 in their daily work where this cannot be solved in alternative ways.