In the program attributes, you determine the runtime environment of a program and thus determine how it runs. The most important program attribute in this respect is the type. This determines whether the program can be strarted directly, or only in conjunction with a particular screen.

The program attributes also tell you the application to which the program belongs, and, in the case of executable programs (reports), the name of any associated logical database. Logical databases are special ABAP programs that you use to read data from a variety of tables.

Take care to enter the correct program attributes, otherwise the system will not be able to run the program properly.