Table ZEMPLOY##

2.Create table ZDEPMENT##.

Via the path Tools → ABAP Workbench → Development → ABAP Dictionary, you come to the overview screen of the ABAP Dictionary.

Table ZDEPMENT##

3.Document fields Personnel number and Department code.

4.To activate the table, you now have to make the technical settings and assign a currency field if an amount field exists in the table.

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Task 2:

Make sure that the same fields are available in both tables for recording the changes by adding these fields to both tables with a substructure ZCHANGE##.

Note: Changes to tables ZEMPLOY## and ZDEPMENT## are critical and therefore must be recorded. The maintenance transaction must note who last changed a table entry. This can be done by appending fields for the personnel number of the last person to change the entry and the date of the last entry to tables ZEMPLOY## and ZDEPMENT##.

In a real application, the above enhancement would always cause the standard table maintenance for the two tables to be deactivated. Your own maintenance transactions would instead be created for the table in which the fields for change logging would be filled internally by the program and not directly by the user.

Creation of such transactions goes beyond the scope of this course. In this course, we therefore assume that all users themselves (correctly) fill these fields in the standard table maintenance routine.

1.Create the structure ZCHANGE##. Create a new data element for the last changed by field using the domain you used for the personnel number. Use S_CHDATE as data element for the date of the last change.

2.Insert ZCHANGE## as Include on the tables ZEMPLOY## and ZDEPMENT##.

3.Find out what actions have been carried out on the database.

4.Start Program BC430_CHECK in Transaction SE38.

Note: Program BC430_CHECK checks whether your solutions are correct and fills the new tables ZEMPLOY## and ZDEPMENT## with sample data needed for later exercises.

Solution 5: Tables in the ABAP Dictionary

Task 1:

Create the two transparent tables ZEMPLOY## and ZDEPMENT##. Define their key fields.

Note: Before you can activate the tables, you still have to define their technical settings. The procedure is described in the last tasks for the exercises. The first tasks can also be solved without activating the table.

Data is maintained for three airlines. An airline has 20,000 employees and between 10 and 30 departments. Do not buffer or log the data. Buffering will be discussed in the exercises for the next unit.

1.Create table ZEMPLOY##.

Via the path Tools → ABAP Workbench → Development → ABAP Dictionary, you come to the overview screen of the ABAP Dictionary.

Table ZEMPLOY##

a)Mark Database table and enter table name ZEMPLOY## in the corresponding input field. Choose Create. Enter a short text in the maintenance screen for the table.

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Personnel number uniquely identify an entry. They must, therefore, be marked as key fields.

Note: The key fields Client, Carrier and Personnel numbermust stand in this order at the beginning of the field list.

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