Analyzing Problems Using ABAP Short Dumps: Part II

The first part of this weblog did not quite manage to open a short dump as of Release NW04s 7.0 EHP1 for display. Instead it reviewed ways to extract contextual information from the short dump lists and elsewhere.
In this second part of the web log we, in the words of W. C. Fields, grab the bull by the tail and face the issue.  In a short dump, you want to answer these primary questions:

• What exactly happened?
• Where did it happen?
• How can the problem be corrected? 

We will look at the diagnostic information and aids that the short dump offers for answering these questions.

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Author: Stephen Pfeiffer

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