Enhancement Points allow you to modify standard SAP code, but in a structured way that will allow you to upgrade and deploy enhancement packs without the conflicts of traditional modifications. Enhancement points are basically can be found at certain defined points within the ABAP code. This allow you to add your own custom code which will be executed as if it had been hard coded into the code using a modification. Unlike hard coded modifications, these will not be lost during upgrade or patching exercises.
It is hard to tell which enhancement points are available for the process you want to customize. There’s very little documentation, and it could take an SAP developer several hours to find the best point. But thanks to Panaya team, we can now enjoy ABAPNinja.
ABAPNinja is a free web site that allows us to quickly search for the best enhancement points for our business process. How did they do it? According to their website, deciding which enhancement points impact a given transaction, directly or indirectly, is not an easy feat, to say the least. There are some 13,000 enhancement points, and over 60,000 SAP transactions, which gives over a billion possible combinations. They have have analyzed close to 250 Million lines of ERP 6.0 code, using Panaya’s program comprehension technology, and a grid of 50 servers over a period of one month, to compile this huge database. Then then used Ruby on Rails to format the data as web pages.
Try it out now, go to www.abapninja.org and enjoy searching for enhancement points!
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