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SHDB - The Transaction Recorder

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

SAP ABAP Interview QuestionsQuestion 14: What is the transaction recorder?

The transaction recorder - BDC recorder - is for recording a series of transactions and their screens. TCODE (transaction code) is SHDB for the transaction recorder. Run SHDB for recording any transaction in SAP R/3 System.

As you know that BDC programming is a kind of tracing all screens and enter data into appropriate place then running the transaction. To do BDC programming either batch input sessions or CALL TRANSACTION you have to know order of all screens, screen names, field names and even you don’t have to miss any screen elements. As you can guess that it is hard to that manually. So SAP provides us an easy method: The Transaction Recorder (BDC Recorder).

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