Is there an issue with global search in enhancements in 7.50 with EHP8?

[BaerbelWinkler]

Hi Folks,

when searching for specific terms in the ABAP code of e.g. an enhancement for SAPMV45A (order entry in SD) we are no longer able to find (m)any hits. Sometimes, a few relevant lines show up but the vast majority of hundreds of expected hits - yes, it's a large enhancement! - are no longer returned.

We already tried the search in different systems apart from development but we have the same issue in both a sandbox and a production system as well as in different enhanced programs.

In some cases, we even see the searched for term on the screen when starting the search but it still isn't included in the results.

We are on NW 7.50 with EHP8 and have been since the end of November last year when we did a major upgrade which also included a switch to HANA-DB. We don't know the exact time since when this no longer works but I'm not sure what else apart from the upgrade could be causing this. I seem to remember that there have been more recent kernel updates but I'd have to check when and in which systems these happened if there's a possibility that one of those is the reason.

Has anybody run into similar issues?

I already tried searching for "global search enhancements" on SAP's support page but the hitlist is way too large - possibly because I haven't yet figured out how to tell the search to only return hits where all searched for terms are included and not just at least one of them.

Thanks and Cheers

Baerbel

[sathyags]

It seems to be working ok for me (7.5 with EHP8 ). on SAP support page, did you try the Expert Search option?

[Sandra_Rossi]

If you select only BC-DWB components, you'll get a list with a maximum of 31 notes

[BaerbelWinkler]

After playing a bit more with the expert search options - thanks Sathy & Sandra for your comments - I found OSS-Note 2508058 - Global search/replace: Missing found locations in enhancements which looked promising so I had it applied in the sandbox system. This did the trick and the list of search results is now again as large as expected.

Turns out that field NOENHANCEMENT on table RSEUMOD is implicated - it needs to be checked for "not equal 'X'" instead of "IS NOT INITIAL" in order for enhancements to be included in the search. So, luckily quite the simple fix.

Cheers

Baerbel