Eliminate Repetitive Activities: There are a number of processes that are repetitive in nature and need manual intervention. Example: Creating a sales order. These mundane tasks are usually susceptible to mistakes. If these activities are multi-step, the probability of a... Continue Reading →
Robotic Process Automation: Wiki says - "Robotic process automation (or RPA) is a form of business process automation technology based on metaphorical software robots (bots) or artificial intelligence (AI) workers." RPA has been in motion since mankind started evolving tools.... Continue Reading →
Cursors are set of rows of data fetched from the database with a pointer at the current row which is defined by the iteration as the code parses through the data one row at a time. When a cursor is... Continue Reading →
CRUD is an acronym for Create, Read, Update and Delete operations are four basic functions in databases. In OData, it follows the same definition. Let's elaborate: Create: Any operation that sends data/instruction from UI Front End to SAP Backend to... Continue Reading →
While READ statement is valid, ABAP has opened a new approach to fetching values from the internal table based on conditions. This is a more simplistic approach aiming at compact coding. Reading a table with index can be simplified as... Continue Reading →
Expanding on the subject last touched upon, following are a few more examples of how data declarations have been updated. For a method, originally parameters would have to be individually declared prior to usage. Any change in the method of... Continue Reading →
Consider a select with 10 fields out of a list of 30. The standard approach is to declare a Type, define an internal table or work area based on that Type and populate the internal table or work area in... Continue Reading →
Optimizing Custom ABAP code for HANA upgrade can be visualized as a three-act structure - Detect, Optimize and Innovate. What Needs Optimization? Before HANA implementation/migration, an assessment on current code needs to be made in order to understand which objects... Continue Reading →
While dealing with OData JSON format, sometimes users come across a number in following shape - 1532696073 - which is confusing as they are expecting a date/timestamp. This is Epoch/Unix/POSIX time format which is an alternate approach to display date... Continue Reading →
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