Utilities (SAP Library - System Services (BC))

Utilities

Use

The R/3 System offers a variety of utilities for performing administrative tasks.

Integration

This chapter covers those system monitoring functions that have not already been described in a separate chapter.

Features

These utilities include the following:

System Messages

With Tools ® Administration ® System messages , you can broadcast messages to all users who are logged on to an R/3 System.

For more information, see Sending System Messages.

ABAP Short Dumps

If you choose Tools ® Administration ® Monitoring ® Dump analysis, you can display the dump summaries generated if an ABAP program terminates abnormally.

Status

With System ® Status, you can display the current status of the session in which you are active.

The status information includes the transaction code of a function. You can enter the transaction code in the command field as a short cut to the function. You can also use the transaction if you want to lock a function using Tcode administration.

Transaction Administration

With Tools ® Administration ® Administration ® Tcode administration, you can lock or unlock transactions. Transactions are the programs that are behind the menus of the R/3 System.

Locking a transaction prevents users from carrying out the function represented by the transaction.

Example

For example, locking Transaction SA38 (ABAP reporting) prevents users from running reports.

Consistency Check

With Tools ® Administration ® Administration ® Installation check, or using Transaction sick , you can check for inconsistencies in your system. The function is also called automatically whenever you start your system or start an application server. The function checks for the following:

the release number in an R/3 kernel matches the release number stored in the database system
the character set specified in the R/3 kernel matches the character set specified in the database system
critical structure definitions that are defined in both the data dictionary and the R/3 kernel are identical. The structures that are checked include SYST, T100, TSTC, TDCT, TFDIR, and others.

Number Range Buffer

If you choose Tools ® Administration ® Monitoring ® Number range buffer, you can display status information on this buffer. The information is useful if you want to tune the buffer.