Funny SAP notes and/or ABAP coding

[Former Member]

yesterday i was searching for a note. as happens sometimes i got a hunch that i had better check on the code, so it was due to that hunch that i found this in note [730545 correction 437023|https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1kZSZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/sapnotes/index2.htm?numm=730545&nlang=EN&smpsrv=https%3a%2f%2fwebsmp106%2esap-ag%2ede]

PERFORM get_allocation_data
            TABLES
                 p_atpallx
                 p_atpcsx
                 s_qtdatx
                 s_qtobjx
                 s_qtcorx.

*   these are the adventures of the new spaceship BERID;
*   she intrudes into MRP areas where no man has gone before;

i had to laugh so hard, i almost fell off my chair. and obviously BERID has been cruising MRP for quite a while, since we now have a 'new' BERID.

there must be others out there - anybody met some?

[Former Member]

Hi Folks,

Some programner was grumpy in 1999 : Look at Report RSWELTOGGLE in R/3 4.7

>SELECT SINGLE * FROM swelcfg WHERE dummy EQ 'X'.

>IF sy-subrc <> 0.

.
>*- oh ****; no entry found for log-activation; patch a first entry
>  PERFORM patch_contents.

.

>* MESSAGE ID 'WA' TYPE 'S' NUMBER 612.

>*- now the first entry is found... get the current data

>SELECT SINGLE * FROM swelcfg WHERE dummy EQ 'X'.

>ENDIF.

Olivier

[Former Member]

One more before beginning the week end : a programmer's life is terrible !

Program RSDBAF01

>* " we have to delete the whole **** bunch of volumes where we

>* " were able to insert before (life is terrible)

>* delete from sdbar where cretstmp = now_tstmp.

Olivier

[former_member204746]

as stated earlier, a lengthy topic on SapFans as tons of funny references in SAP code:

http://www.sapfans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=103417

And a funny OSS note - 60233:

STEP 8. Rerun your long running report, and hope it works. If it runs for many

many hours, one example ran for 18 hours then crashed, hen there is not much more

you can do! I generally cry, kick my PC, then go down to the pub and drink lots of

beer . But seriously, if all spare space available has been added to your

PSAPROLL tablespace and created the bigest rollback segments possible, and the

report still crashes with an ORA-1555, then a serious look at what the report is

doing and how to make it run faster is the only remaining solution.

this text was deleted, but it is still available in old notes versions such as version #26.

by the way, Mylene's text was reported at http://www.sapfans.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=103417#383142

[Former Member]

Hi,

About OSS note - 60233

What a shame that this note was (politically) corrected !

This was my all time preferred OSS note, the only one which could let me think that there are actually Human Beings in Waldorf and not only thinking robots !

[former_member583013]

Hi Mylene:

I'm pretty sure we had talk about this before...I just can't find the original post -:( Hope someone can give us the link -;)

Greetings,

Blag.

[JozsefSzikszai]

hi Blag,

do you mean:

regards

ec

[former_member583013]

Exactly!

Eric...You're the man! -:D

Greetings,

Blag.

[Former Member]

o.k. sorry. delete this thread then ... no duplicate keys

... dorias out!

[former_member583013]

Don't worry -:) I'm not going to close it..or delete it...Maybe we could find more funny comments like that...Other post is old...so maybe we can use this to start again -;)

Greetings,

Blag.

[ThomasZloch]

slightly off-topic, but while I'm searching for yet undetected funny bits of code/comments, here is a thread where somebody posted a link to a babelfish-translation of ABAP program code, Spanish to English.

I thought the result was pretty funny.

(see "Minesweeper's Game")

By the way, up to release 2.x or 3.x of R/3 you would find the actual programmer's name on all development objects, until SAP decided to replace them with "SAP". Too bad we can't trace the "Scheisse" comments back to the originator any more...

Cheers

Thomas