SAP Basis Notes: Finding the Name of a Report You Want to Execute in sap

Prerequisites

You can search for a report name even when you do not know the exact name of a report.

Procedure

Choose System

Services

Reporting.

The report selection screen appears.

Choose Utilities

Find Program. Or, choose the possible entries icon

for Program, and select an entry from the dropdown list box.

The report search screen (ABAP Program Directory) appears:

In the Program

field, enter any part of the report name that you know, plus any wildcards (

), as needed.

Wildcard	Represents
* and +	Characters you do not know
*	Multiple characters
+	Exactly one character

Use the * and + anywhere in the report name, as often as necessary. For example:

Character	Represents all report names...
z*	Starting with z
sale	Containing the character string sale, such as rvsale07
*f+	Containing an f as the second-to-last character, such as rmlogifa
rp+++sch	Starting with rp, ending in sch, and containing any three characters in between, such as rp012sch or rpinvsch

The report name can be upper- or lowercase; for example, RF is the same as rf.

Choose Execute.

A list of reports appears.

Place the cursor on the report name, and choose Choose. Or, double-click the report name.

Choose Program

Execute.

If the report does not require a variant, the selection criteria screen for the report appears.

If the report requires a variant, the system displays a message stating that you cannot select the report from this screen. Return to the report selection screen (choose , or press F3 ), and then enter the report and variant name. Before leaving this screen, note the name of the report. (For more information, see Report Variants.)