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FM exception in BW system

Oct 09, 2007 at 03:58 PM | 6 Views

Dear colleagues,

It seems a function module (developed in a BW system) cannot raise an exception when called from an external system through a middleware.

Any hint? Thanks.

Ray

BW Planning
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    Oct 09, 2007 at 04:04 PM

    What seems to you is correct.

    Unfortunately you need to be more specific than that to get any help with this. This is a general message. Likely there would be a dump (in txn ST22 in the BW system) which may tell what the problem was.

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    • Former Member Former Member
      Nov 30, 2007 at 10:34 AM

      Hi

      You can't trap ABAP exceptions when calling from an external system. This is because there isn't an abap context which called the function call which would receive the function module's exceptions up the program callstack and make use of them. In other words you can only use those exceptions when you are calling the FM from ABAP.

      There's an alternative approach utilised with many BAPIs which are RFM enabled FMs intended for SAP and third party system use.

      They have as TABLES parameter an object called a return table. This table contains messages in a standard format which you can receive into your third party system (or SAP system if RFC) and then handle from there. Search for BAPI* in SE37 to find examples, click the TABLES tab.

      Hope that helps.

      GB