Transaction SM50 in Detail: Menu - Administration of Work Processes
To use these functions, you first need to select at least one work process.
Ways of managing Work Processes
- Cancel a process:
Start of the navigation path Administration Next navigation step Process Next navigation step Cancel Next navigation step With Core/Without Core End of the navigation path
The work process is terminated at operating system level. The Dispatcher starts a new work process with a new PID (provided you have configured the system appropriately) "Start Process After Error/Termination Automatically"). You can create a core file when the process is terminated for analyzing later. You can display the core file in transaction RZ11.
- Start Process After Error/Termination Automatically:
Start of the navigation path Administration Next navigation step Process Next navigation step Restart After Error Next navigation step Yes/No End of the navigation path
If a process is terminated due to an error, it can be restarted automatically. The default is Yes.
- Debug a running ABAP program.
Start of the navigation path Administration Next navigation step Program Next navigation step Debugging End of the navigation path
This function can only be executed if you have selected a work process in which an ABAP program is currently running. You can find the report name in the Active Program column. Note that you need "debug and replace authorization", which is controlled by authorization object S_DEVELOP together with OBJTYPE 0 DEBUG and ACTVT = 02.
- Terminate a running ABAP program:
Start of the navigation path Administration Next navigation step Program Next navigation step Cancel End of the navigation path
This function can only be executed if you have selected a work process in which an ABAP program is currently running. You can find the report name in the Active Program column. If a program is terminated, a short dump is generated.
- Delete a session:
Start of the navigation path Administration Next navigation step Delete Session End of the navigation path
You can end the session that is running. This does not actually end the process, it deletes the active external session.
- Display system-wide process list:
Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step System-Wide List End of the navigation path (or icon: System-Wide List: )
You can switch to the system-wide process list from the process overview of an individual instance.
With the icon you can also go to the system-wide process list.
- Display details of a process:
Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step Process Information End of the navigation path (or icon: Process Information.)
Here you can display detailed information on memory statistics, database statistics, SQL statements, runtime, application, and specific attributes of the process.
- Display details of a user:
Start of the navigation path Goto Next navigation step User Info End of the navigation path
You can display information on the user here. To manage users go to the User Overview (transaction SM04).
In the process overview, you cannot be sure that a user session you want to terminate or delete is still active in the work process that you have chosen. You could therefore unintentionally affect another user's session.
- Reset Terminations:
Start of the navigation path List Next navigation step Reset Next navigation step Failures End of the navigation path.
This counter is displayed in the column overview in column Failures (Work Process Failures). It specifies how often the work process has been restarted because of an error or a manual restart.
- Reset information area:
Start of the navigation path List Next navigation step Reset Next navigation step Info Area End of the navigation path.
Resetting the info area is useful if, for example, dynamic work processes have been added or removed in the meantime.
