Creating a Table Pool

  1. In the initial screen of the ABAP Dictionary, choose Utilities ® Pools/clusters ® Create pool/cluster.

    2. A dialog box appears in which you must enter the name of the table pool. Then choose Table pool.

    The maintenance screen for table pools appears. Because the structure of a table pool is set, the necessary specifications for the fields are already entered here automatically. You should not change these standard settings if you can avoid it.

  2. Enter an explanatory text in the field Short text.
  3. If necessary, choose the activation type for the table pool with Extras ® Activation type.
  4. Choose Goto ® Documentation and enter documentation for the table pool, describing the uses of the table pool.
  5. Branch to the maintenance screen for the technical settings by choosing Goto ® Technical settings. Unlike in the tables maintenance, here you can specify only the Size Category of the table pool. All other attributes of the technical settings are preset.
  6. Activate the table pool with Table pool ® Activate.

You can view the log for the activation procedure by choosing Utilities ® Act. log. If errors occurred when the table pool was activated, you branch to the activation log directly.

After the table pool has been activated, you need to create it in the database. To do this, use the database utility (Utilities ® Database utility).

Once a table pool contains data, it can no longer be changed.