ABAP Runtime Analysis: Release Notes()

Replacement of the old ABAP Runtime Analysis transaction SE30 with the new transaction SAP, as part of a major revision and extension of the ABAP Runtime Analysis.

Replacement of the old display infrastructure of the ABAP Runtime Analysis with the tools framework used by the new ABAP Debugger.

Re-design of the user interface. The new main screen offers tabs for performing measurements and displaying measurement results.

Replacement of the old SE30 list-based measurement displays with new tools using accessible ALV technology. The new tools offer in many cases advanced features not available in the old SE30 call hierarchy, hit list, and database hit list tools.

Addition of entirely new tools for analyzing measurements:

• The Profile tool, for sorting trace events along various dimensions. Example: packages involved in the processing during a measurement.

• The Processing Blocks tool, for displaying an easily usable view of the call stack during a measurement.

• The Times tool, for analyzing the runtime spent in measured events.

Storage of measurements in the database rather than in operating system files. This change allows you to display measurements from all of the application servers in a system, not just the server on which the measurement was made.

Export of measurements in a release-neutral and operating-system-neutral format. This feature allows you to compare measurements across releases and host operating systems as of SAP NetWeaver Release 7.0 EHP2.

The capability of ending measurements stuck in status Running (from the Evaluate tab of the start screen).

In the Overview of Scheduled Measurements, you can now schedule measurements not only for the local application server, but also for selected other servers or all servers.

You can also now display scheduled measurements system-wide.

In the Overview of Scheduled Measurements, you can now schedule measurements in clients other than your own. You must still logon in the client in which a measurement was made to display the measurement.

In measurement of parallel processes, you can now start and stop measurements in work processes of other application servers in the system. Further, by default, the display starts with only active work processes, to make it easier to find a running process that is to be traced.

Usability improvements:

• In measurement of external processes, you can activate or de-activate a measurement simply by clicking on a work process entry. It is no longer necessary to mark an entry and then choose a function in the toolbar.

• The messages that document the progress and success of a measurement have been reworked to be more informative.

• You can change the description of a measurement without causing, as was the case in the past, the entire trace to be stored once again.

• You can display the raw measurement data directly from the Evaluate tab. In earlier releases, you had to enter the OK-Code DUMP in the Command field to display the raw data.

• A user-filter setting in the Evaluate subscreen - to view measurements of other users - remains in effect as long as you remain logged on. The Runtime Analysis issues a warning message if you open the Evaluate subscreen while such a user-filter setting is in effect.