historias on Abapinho

Thank you, Martin Jonen

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0000

It’s great to find peers who are equally interested in improving and evolving, not just as a programmer but also as a human being. I recently found one.

To all those whole criticize 7.4 syntax

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 09:01:01 +0000

This post is addressed to the collective character that represents all the people who have told me that they like some things in the new 7.4 functional syntax but think that you shouldn’t overdo it and should avoid using REDUCE and all the other unnecessarily weird things because the code gets more obscure, it’s slower and they don’t see any advantages.

Are you serious?

We manually implemented 1000 SAP notes

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 09:00:00 +0100

In the last years of the previous century, an SAP project manager stubbornly opposed to upgrading the SAP system. Instead, he decided that all the SAP notes belonging to that upgrade were to be manually implemented. All 1000 of them.

Podcast Sem especificação

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:26:46 +0100

This Tuesday I was invited by Renan Correa to participate in his podcast “Sem especificação”.

I already miss you Sérgio!

Mon, 02 Aug 2021 09:00:55 +0000

My dear friend Sérgio Fraga passed away. Abapinho also belongs to him. Forever. Thank you my friend for everything you were.

ABAP, the lobotomizer

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 09:27:05 +0000

João studies Computer Science at his College where he learns Java, polymorphism, encapsulation and a lot of other programming techniques and best practices. When he graduates, he decides to join a company to work in SAP. At the introduction training which his new company offers, the first thing he learns is how to make a program in ABAP. Here’s how they teach it:

_“Go to transaction SE38, create program ZJOAO and then create includes ZJOAO_TOP, ZJOAO_FRM and ZJOAO_SEL. You declare all variables in _TOP, the selection screen you put in _SEL and all the FORMS must go into FRM. Then write START-OF-SELECTION and under that put all the SELECTs and finally write END-OF-SELECTION and there you show the results in an ALV. It’s that simple. Welcome to ABAP.”

ABAP popular saying

Tue, 22 Nov 2016 14:09:20 +0000

Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do SY-DATUM.

It's my birthday!

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:24:50 +0000

I’m 6 years old! (Thank you Caleb Prichard for the photo)

ABAP sucks

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 09:00:46 +0000

Go to the ABAP Editor (SE38) and check out line 323 of standard program RCIFCUST. If you’re lazy, here it is: SAP programmers are wild. Thanks Brian Wolfe for the photo. Greetings from Abapinho

Good mouse

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:00:45 +0000

Most of my friends, when they buy a new computer, worry a lot about CPU speed, disk speed and memory speed and whatnot speed. And then they go and buy a €6 mouse and a €7 keyboard. Ironic. While the CPU, the disk and the memory and all that other stuff often end up being wasted, the mouse and the keyboard are used to the max the entire time the computer is in use.

Entrevista a Mauricio Roberto Cruz do ABAPZombie

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 09:00:51 +0000

Depois de o site irmão ABAPZombie (grande site brasileiro sobre ABAP) me ter entrevistado há uns meses atrás, aqui fica finalmente a minha vingança Zômbica. Entrevistar o Mauricio foi muito simples porque as perguntas que me fizeram são tão boas que resolvi virá-las contra o feiticeiro (Mauricio, espero que não leves a mal ter-tas usurpado!). As suas óptimas respostas ajudarão certamente os leitores portugueses a terem uma ideia de como funciona o mercado ABAP lá no Brasil:

Follow your fingers

Mon, 28 May 2012 10:00:44 +0000

I have a number of friends working as managers, lawyers, marketers, programmers, etc., at very dynamic and competitive companies who are allegedly very busy and are always up to their eyeballs in work. They dedicated several years of their lives to their degrees in order to specialise in a particular field and some of them have put in the extra effort to get a postgraduate diploma in order to be better qualified and therefore able to do more both better and faster. However, the vast majority of them use two fingers when typing at a computer. Over a number of years they have acquired many skills that supposedly make them ultra efficient and yet they still type with two fingers.

RICEF is not transgenic rice nor is it part of the UN

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 10:39:04 +0000

RICEF is an acronym in SAP world which apparently was not invented by SAP. And so it is an unofficial acronym. Which does not mean it is an illegal or secret acronym given that it has become a term in proper usage in more and more projects. RICEF means Report , Interface , Conversion , Enhancement , Form and, basically, refers to any kind of development that might be needed in a SAP project.

Um mal que veio por bem

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:29:07 +0000

Era uma vez um cliente com um sistema produtivo com 9 servidores mais rápidos que a própria sombra. Esses 9 servidores eram geridos por 4 administradores de sistema muito bons que os mantinham sempre oleados e a fluírem à velocidade máxima. Um dia tive de desenvolver um carregamento muito complexo que criava milhões de classificações. Quando se começou a testar o programa, constatou-se que algo estava muito lento, lento demais. Na maior parte do tempo o programa estava encalhado à espera de SELECTs sequenciais à tabela INOB, que era gigante.

Dar de beber à dor

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:47:05 +0000

No Inverno de 2006 trabalhava no projecto SAP de um enorme retalhista internacional, com centenas de supermercados espalhados por todo um país. Uma bela manhã, pelas 11h45 comecei a ver várias pessoas com ar alarmado a correr de um lado para o outro no escritório. Perguntei o que se passava e se podia ajudar e explicaram-me que não conseguiam fazer a encomenda de leite para o dia seguinte que tinha de ser feita até às 12h15 mas que não tinha nada a ver comigo, que eu não podia ajudar.

Was ist ABAP?

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:26:52 +0000

Mas afinal o que é que quer dizer ABAP? Em 1970 chamaram-lhe ABAP que queria dizer “Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor”, ou em português “Processador de geração de reports genéricos”. Em 1990 mudaram-lhe o nome para ABAP/4 e disseram que afinal queria dizer “Advanced Business Application Programming”, ou em português “Programação avançada para aplicações de negócio”. Em 2000 largam o /4 e tornaram a chamar-lhe só ABAP e é o que ainda lhe chamam agora.

Dá e receberás

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:28:33 +0000

Vivia-se o ano do Senhor de 1998. No século XX portanto, quando ainda se trabalhava de gravata. Estava eu com 1 mês de experiência em SAP e pela primeira vez sozinho num cliente, de gravata ao pescoço, num armazém gigante, a fazer formulários de WM e coisas do género ao serviço de um funcional de WM. Certo dia fui directamente abordado por um senhor condutor de um empilhador que me disse que o código identificador na etiqueta das paletes tinha letras muito pequeninas e ele tinha muita dificuldade em lê-lo.