One transaction by entering the command codes "/ nxxxx" ( "xxxx" = transaction code) in the command field and click on the View button to ENTER. If you immediately before typed within an "old application data should save this data, because otherwise lost without warning by the system go. In some cases this is not immediately possible, because the system does not allow the storage of inconsistent data. If you continue later in the "old" application, you have ability to open up new applications in a new session.
A mode (session) is from the perspective of the user, an SAP window. Immediately
after logging on to SAP R / 3 you are working with exactly one mode. If a valid login, the user opens a database session (Session), while the first transaction with the transaction code SESSION_MANAGER.
In addition to the can or the previously existing SAP windows other (maximum six) modes are open. Program-generated by the application server for each mode at the level of the operating system one process (task), of its own storage area in the so-called "shared memory" occupied. The system administrator specifies the maximum number of sessions (from 2 to 6), which you can open.
In each mode is available, the entire scope of the SAP R / 3 Systems. With modes in the respective windows can be different applications will be processed in parallel. The functions that you run in a mode to influence the other modes are not.
Working with Modes
She got the job immediately by telephone over certain To provide inventory information. However, you're working at the facility a new vendor (supplier). Could you provide only with a single mode to work, you have to - in order to provide information on the stock to search and grant to abort - the investment of the accounts payable account. They would therefore lose the previously entered data. By opening a second mode, but you can find in the store without breaking the accounts payable system. After the stock identification close the second mode and switch back to original mode to terminate the accounts payable system.
Modes are used in the following cases:
• If you have an R / 3 application process and an operational request should respond immediately, you can run a new application in a additional mode to open, without having to work in the current should discontinue use.
• waiting times, for example, after the start of a complex reports, by opening a second application can be bridged.
• You can in a mode to run an SAP application that lets you are not yet completely familiar, while in another mode, the SAP to use library for assistance.
• In some applications, which generates calling, the R / 3 "On its own," a new mode. This is for example in the care of the user-defined data from the case. |
