Application Logging in ABAP
Whether you are working with integration or a critical application or a complex report, logging becomes an obvious choice and activity. Traditionally, Abapers have been logging information using a custom DB table defined specifically for a particular application. While useful, The approach has some flaws, - Every application needs to have its own logging table - Record purging/archiving needs to be set up in order to make sure old records are either deleted or archived. - There is no reusability of either the setup or the logic to log. With the introduction of Application Logging from SAP, the traditional approach can be left out. In this post, I will be talking about how we can leverage the SAP application Logging Library to make logging easy. What is an application log? An application log is a rich type log. It contains information like User, Time, Expiry date of the log along with the actual message raised by the