SAP ABAP – Handling Shortdump

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Hello Friends,

Eventually, when we ran the SAP program, whether it was a custom program or a standard program, we just bumped into a short dump . In ABAP, we can handle this short dump with some code. Here we go!

Example

If we execute a program like this

  DATA:
    lv_val_1  TYPE i,
    lv_val_2  TYPE i,
    lv_result TYPE i.

  lv_val_1 = 10.
  lv_val_2 = 0.
  lv_result = lv_val_1 / lv_val_2.

Then we must bump into short dump like below

We can see the short dump occurred raised by exception CX_SY_ZERODIVIDE

We can catch the exception in the program like below so the program will not throw the short dump.

  DATA:
    lv_val_1  TYPE i,
    lv_val_2  TYPE i,
    lv_result TYPE i.

  lv_val_1 = 10.
  lv_val_2 = 0.
  TRY.
      lv_result = lv_val_1 / lv_val_2.
    CATCH cx_sy_zerodivide.
  ENDTRY.

Next, try to get the messages

  DATA:
    lv_val_1  TYPE i,
    lv_val_2  TYPE i,
    lv_result TYPE i.

  lv_val_1 = 10.
  lv_val_2 = 0.
  TRY.
      lv_result = lv_val_1 / lv_val_2.
    CATCH cx_sy_zerodivide INTO DATA(lx_zerodiv).
      WRITE:/ lx_zerodiv->get_text( ). " retrieve short text
      WRITE:/ lx_zerodiv->get_longtext( ). " retrieve long text
  ENDTRY.

This method can be applied to other exceptions too.

That’s all.

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