Will a Standard program have a transaction?

[Former Member]

hi,

Whether all the standard programs will have transactions? How to find it?

I have tried to find using where used list.

For Ex:- Program name is rstxpdft4.

Regards,

Lijo Joseph

[athavanraja]

One way is thru transaction se80. it will list out all related object to the program.

SE80->program->program name display.

Regards

Raja

[Former Member]

Hi Durairaj,

I am not able to see any trnsaction in se80.

Can you tell me what will be transaction for rstxpdft4?

thanks and regards,

Lijo joseph

[athavanraja]

Hi,

I have checked and program rstxpdft4 dosent have a transaction associated.

If you really need a transaction for that, you can assign a transaction in customer namespace for program rstxpdft4 thru transaction se93.

Regards

Raja

[Former Member]

Hi

this is usefull program.

How a user will know about these type of programs which is not having trnasaction?

regards,

lijo joseph

[Former Member]

Hello Lijo,

I understand your concern. There are quite a lot of programs (of special interest might be the report programs beginning with R*) in SAP which do not have a transaction code.

Now your concern is that some of these programs are useful and the <i>user</i> may not even know that there is such a report. I shall assume that by <i>user</i>, you indeed mean the end-users of the SAP System, who do not , in general have technical expertise.

Well I would say it is the customer who has to decide which users should be able to access which programs. And it is the technical consultant's job to find out the reports which are considered <i>useful</i> by the customer and then assign them a transaction-code within the customer name-space. Then the appropriate authorizations would have to be set up before the transaction code is given away to the users.

As far as the technical consultant's job is concerned, he would have to be able to identify if there are any standard reports available for a particular purpose, as per the requirement of the client. To do that there are excellent search capabilities in SAP which will help you zero-in on the target.

That is the reason you find a lot of people trying to find out if there's already a standard Function Module / Report / BAPI / Transaction which would help them achieve the requirement. Only when you are convinced that there's none available do you start off with coding your own program from the scratch.

Hope that makes the point clear. Please revert back if not. If you're happy with it, please close the thread.

Regards,

Anand Mandalika.

[Former Member]

Hi poornanand,

It was excellent answer for my question.

Thank you very much.

Regards,

Lijo Joseph