ABAP PERFORMANCE TOOLS

AUTHOR: SUSHANT SINGH CHHATRYA (11066)

SAP BRF+ CONSULTANT

Purpose:
- To familiarize ABAP developers with the performance tools.

Scope:

- Include SAP tools to check performance for ABAP program.

- Covers Best performance guidelines as well.

Benefits:

- Empowers developers to leverage the use of provided tools by SAP and reduce
time as well as space complexity of the code.

JUNE 21, 2024

INVENIOLSI

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 - Please note some points on best performance guidelines
- For In details description, separate documentation is
also provided. (ABAP_Best Performance)
- Here we only focus on tools to check ABAP Performance.

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Performance tools:

- Used to Check performance of SQL queries (SELECT

Query)

- 1. Activate the trace:

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 - 2. Execute program for which you want to check trace.
- 3. Deactivate trace
- 4. Display trace as shown below

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 - Filter with program name:

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 - Can go to source code – Display ABAP code location as
highlighted below:

- Check time for each query(ms)

- Check which query taking max time, whether if there is
any scope of improvement
- Tune your code with the best practices of select query

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 - ABAP TRACE
- Runtime analysis tool.
- Fully analyse the program.

- Run SAT Tcode:

- Execute and click back:

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 - Target area which is taking maximum time:
- Sorted below, time is descending order:

- Select line item and display source code:

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 - There may be case when SAP logic comes up where we cannot do
anything, leave them!

- Check other whether if there is scope of any improvement.

- Can compare – Previous runtime measurement and current

runtime measurement.

- We can keep a track of our code enhancement.

- We can use EVAULATE as shown below:

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 - Below is the screenshot of how to compare:
- We have 2 measurements just to show as example here:

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 - No need to run the program here.
- It is for Static check only.
- Below is the steps for EPC.

Note:

- It Checks for the unwanted code declaration.

- We can remove all this a part of tuning our code.
- Also, it checks for the best practices such as Text element error
for hard coding (Text-element important for translation as well)
- Uncomment the Exceptions code in FM

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 - Use message class and do not hard code
- First look for all errors

Happy Learning

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