Managing Work Processes

Debugging

You can debug a runnung ABAP program.

More information: Debugger :

 Administration  Program  Debugging 

Cancel program

You can cancel the ABAP program; a short dump is processed.

 Administration  Program  Cancel 

Exit work process - with core

Cancel work process and create a core file, this can be viewed in transaction ST11 . The process is then exited at operating system level, the Dispatcher starts a new work process with a new PID (provided Restart is set to Yes ).

 Administration  Process  Cancel  With Core 

Exit work process - without core

Cancel work process without creating a core file

 Administration  Process  Cancel  Without Core 

Set automatic restart

Restarts work processes after cancelation: You can specify whether a process should be restarted automatically after an error has occured. The default is Yes .

 Administration  Process  Restart After Error   Yes/No 

End Session

You can end the session that is running. This does not actually end the process, it deletes the external session.

 Administration  Delete Session 

Specify trace components

You can specify which kernel components write trace information to the trace file and the trace level for logging. no trace, 1: Error trace, 2: Full trace, 3: Full trace with buffers). Only the task handler component is set as the active default, and the trace level is 1.

 Administration  Trace  Active Components 

Configure Trace Display

There are 2 options under this option, Loading components and Display components . These options are useful for very large trace files where all or many of the components were active. Loading components lets you choose which components are loaded in the file; Display components lets you further limit the display. The display components are a subset of the loading components. By default, the loading components are displayed.

 Administration  Trace  Display Settings 

Display trace file

This displays the trace file for a selected work process.

You can display the previous trace (before the application server was last started), as well as the current trace file. The previous trace file is called dev_*.old and can be found in the work directory.

 Administration  Trace  Display File  Current  or Previous

Download trace files

With this function you can download one or more trace files to your local PC.

More information: Saving Trace Files Locally

 Administration  Trace  Save as Local File 

Reset trace files

You can empty the trace files here: You can choose whether to reset all files or only work process files . All Files mean all dev* files on this server. They include the traces from the gateway, dispatcher, ICM, RFC, and so on, as well as the work process traces.

 Administration  Trace  Reset 

Setting Dispatcher Trace Level

Here you can set the trace level for the trace file of the dispatcher dev_disp, view the file, or save it locally .

 Administration  Trace  Dispatcher