The Beginning…

The blog posted by Kevin Wilson a few days ago about the chance to modify the content of SAP tables using the SE16N transaction reminded me the importance of properly managing these tasks in a productive environment:

  • System settings (e.g. SCC4/SE06)
  • Permissions to perform certain actions and / or transactions.

Just to stay on the subject, I would like to share with the great SDN community a pearl which is based upon one of the peculiarities introduced by the new ABAP debugger.

My colleague Sandro Garofano (he’s really a PI Guru) asked me: <<Hey Andrea, can you change the variable SY-UNAME while debugging?>>

Knowing the classic debugger and imagining to have the same behavior even with the new one, I answered with no doubt: <<Absolutely NOT!>>

Sandro then closed the conversation by adding: <<… Anyway, we did a test; if you change the content of the system variable sy-uname, the new debugger maintains the value … Try it!>>

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