When all business requirements are met in a development, customer complaints always come down to performance. “Can’t this run any faster?” we always hear. Performance, in a technical point of view, is a broader concept that not just includes execution time, but also optimal use of system resources like memory and network load. But powerful […]
Month: April 2015
ABAP by numbers: Length of decimal type
Inequality between length and maximum digit count of packed decimal type causes great confusion even among seasoned developers. ABAPDOCU explains the relation with a fairly complicated formula: Depending on the field length len and the number of decimal places dec, the following applies to the value range: (-10^(2len-1) +1) / (10^(+dec)) to (+10^(2len-1) -1) /(10^(+dec)) […]
Obligatory selection screen parameters
Almost every ABAP developer comes to a point where they require obligatory parameters along with user command logic in their selection screens. As you might already know, that’s a problem. Because obligatory parameters demand input on every action of user and interfere with user command logic, which results in a broken selection screen. Let’s see […]