Configuration of the Process Overview (Transaction SM50)

Depending on the configuration of the process overview (SM50) some of the functions described in this documentation may not be displayed. In the menu Start of the navigation path List Next navigation step Configuration End of the navigation path you can customize the process overview (SM50) to your working requirements and show or hide certain functions and information.

Table 1: Configuration of the Process Overview
Function	Explanation
Display Information Area	When you call the process overview, an info area is displayed above the work process table. This info area contains information about the configured and configurable work processes and CPU consumption.
Enhanced Info Area	In addition to the standard info area, the enhanced info area contains rows for blockade handling, preemptions, reconnects, trace is active, deadlocks, processes will be reconfigured, DB reconnect is running, ASCS is not available, AS instance was suspended, snapshots and signal handler timeouts. Note This additional information is displayed only when: Numeric values are > 0 , for example, with preemptions. The situation is currently active, for example, trace is active.
Display ABAP Stack	By double-clicking on a work process, you can display detailed information about it. In this detail information you can also display information about the ABAP stack. Whether the ABAP stack information can be displayed depends on what is going on in the work process. For example, if the work process is waiting for a response from an SQL statement, there is no ABAP stack. On the other hand if ABAP code is running, the ABAP stack is normally displayed.
Display SQL Statement	By double-clicking on a work process, you can display detailed information about it. In this detail information you can also display information about the SQL statement.-
Display Communication with Other AS Instances	To display the system-wide process list, the work process list must be retrieved for each server. These lists are then combined into one list.
Classic Display of Detail Information	By double-clicking on a work process, you can display detailed information about it. You can display this information in the classic view too.
Display Load in Percent	You can display the load information in the info area as a percentage too.
Ignore Status of the AS instance	Normally only active servers are included in the system-wide list. This can be overrided here.
Active Work Processes	When you call the process overview, you can display active work processes only.
System-Wide List	In combination with `Active Work Processes` you can also display all active work processes of all application server instances of the SAP system.