SE16, or Full Data Browser, is an SAP transaction code used for displaying and managing table contents in the SAP system. It allows users to view data from database tables, create variants for accessing these tables in a specific order, set up custom database queries for a table structure, and perform breadth research of the database.
SE16 — Meta Data
| Description: | Data Browser |
| Main Category: | Basis |
| Sub Category: | Workbench Utilities |
TCodes related to SE16
| TCODE | Description | Application |
|---|---|---|
| SE11 | ABAP Dictionary Maintenance | Basis - Dictionary Maintenance |
| SE38 | ABAP Editor | Basis - ABAP Editor |
| SM30 | Call View Maintenance | Basis - Table Maintenance Tool |
| SE16N | General Table Display | CO - Controlling |
| SE37 | ABAP Function Modules | Basis - Function Builder |
| SE80 | Object Navigator | Basis - Repository Browser |
| RSA1 | Modeling - DW Workbench | BW - Data Warehousing Workbench |
| SM37 | Overview of job selection | Basis - Background Processing |
| SE93 | Maintain Transaction Codes | Basis - Workbench Tools: Editors, Painters, Modelers |
| SU01 | User Maintenance | Basis - User and Authorization Management |
| SM59 | RFC Destinations (Display/Maintain) | Basis - RFC |
Tables related to SE16
| TABLE | Description | Application |
|---|---|---|
| MARA | General Material Data | Logistics - Material Master |
| VBAK | Sales Document: Header Data | SD - Sales |
| MARC | Plant Data for Material | Logistics - Material Master |
| TSTC | SAP Transaction Codes | Basis - ABAP Runtime Environment |
| EKPO | Purchasing Document Item | MM - Purchasing |
| EKKO | Purchasing Document Header | MM - Purchasing |
| BSEG | Accounting Document Segment | FI - Financial Accounting |
| VBAP | Sales Document: Item Data | SD - Sales |
| VBRK | Billing Document: Header Data | SD - Billing |
| KNA1 | General Data in Customer Master | Logistics - Customer Master |
| BKPF | Accounting Document Header | FI - Financial Accounting |
| COEP | CO Object: Line Items (by Period) | CO - Overhead Cost Controlling |
Authorization Objects related to SE16
| AUTHORIZATION OBJECT | Description | Application |
|---|---|---|
| S_TABU_DIS | Table Maintenance (via standard tools such as SM30) | |
| S_ARCHIVE | Archiving | |
| S_DEVELOP | ABAP Workbench | |
| S_TCODE | Transaction Code Check at Transaction Start | |
| S_TABU_CLI | Cross-Client Table Maintenance | |
| S_RFC | Authorization Check for RFC Access | |
| S_TABU_LIN | Authorization for Organizational Unit | |
| S_PROGRAM | ABAP: Program Flow Checks | |
| S_TABU_NAM | Table Access via Generic Standard Tools | |
| S_ADMI_FCD | System Authorizations | |
| S_QUERY | SAP Query Authorization | |
| S_TRANSPRT | Transport Organizer |
ABAP FMs related to SE16
| FM | Description | Application |
|---|---|---|
| ARCHIVE_SAVE_OBJECT | Write Data Object to the Archive File | FI - Basic Functions |
| ARCHIVE_GET_NEXT_OBJECT | Read Data Object from the Archive File | FI - Basic Functions |
| ARCHIVE_NEW_OBJECT | Request Data Object for Writing | FI - Basic Functions |
| READ_TEXT | SAPscript: Read text | BC - SAPscript |
| GUI_DOWNLOAD | Download an Internal Table to the PC | Basis - Graphical User Interface |
| RFC_READ_TABLE | External access to R/3 tables via RFC | Basis - See Note 539477 |
| RSPC_PROCESS_FINISH | Beenden eines Prozesses | BW - Data Staging |
| REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY | Output of a simple list (single-line) | Basis - SAP List Viewer |
| CONVERSION_EXIT_ALPHA_INPUT | Conversion exit ALPHA, external->internal | Basis - Syntax, Compiler, Runtime |
| VIEW_AUTHORITY_CHECK | Authorization Check for Views/Tables (Extended Table Maintenance) | Basis - Table Maintenance Tool |
| GUI_UPLOAD | Upload for Data Provider | Basis - Graphical User Interface |
| F4IF_INT_TABLE_VALUE_REQUEST | F4 help also returning the value to be displayed in internal table | Basis - F4 Help |
ABAP Reports related to SE16
BW Datasources related to SE16
| BW DATASOURCE | Description | Application |
|---|---|---|
| 0FI_GL_4 | General Ledger: Line Items with Delta Extraction | FI - General Ledger Accounting |
| 2LIS_11_VAITM | Sales Document Item Data | SD - Sales and Distribution |
| 2LIS_02_ITM | Purchasing Data (Item Level) | MM - Materials Management |
| 0FI_AP_4 | Vendors: Line Items with Delta Extrcation | FI - Accounts Payable |
| 0FI_AR_4 | Customers: Line Items with Delta Extraction | FI - Accounts Receivable |
| 0MATERIAL_ATTR | Material Number | Logistics - Logistics - General |
| 0FI_TX_4 | Taxes: Line Items by Means of Delta Extraction | FI - General Ledger Accounting |
| 2LIS_11_VAHDR | Sales Document Header Data | SD - Sales and Distribution |
| 0FI_AR_3 | Customers: Line Items | FI - Accounts Receivable |
| 2LIS_02_SCL | Purchasing Data (Schedule Line Level) | MM - Materials Management |
| 2LIS_02_HDR | Purchasing Data (Header Level) | MM - Materials Management |
| 0FI_AP_3 | Vendors: Line Items | FI - Accounts Payable |
Errors related to SE16
| ERROR | Description |
|---|---|
| MESSAGE_TYPE_X | Short text of the error message: |
| ITAB_DUPLICATE_KEY | An attempt was made to insert an entry into table &T1-NAME. Updating |
| DBIF_RSQL_INVALID_RSQL | &INCLUDE &P9 |
| RAISE_EXCEPTION | A RAISE statement in program &AP has raised exception condition &P1.\n |
| DBIF_RSQL_SQL_ERROR | Database error text: &P4. |
| TSV_TNEW_PAGE_ALLOC_FAILED | No more rows could be added to internal table &T1-NAME. To make |
| SAPSQL_ARRAY_INSERT_DUPREC | When an Open SQL array insert is performed |
| DYNPRO_SEND_IN_BACKGROUND | Attempt made to send an image to a user during background processing.\n |
| ASSERTION_FAILED | The following checkpoint group was used: &P1\n |
| GENERATE_SUBPOOL_DIR_FULL | No more than &P1 subroutine pools can be generated. This maximum value |
| UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION | This exception is closely related to a previous exception &YC |
| RFC_DEBUGGING_NO_DIALOG_USER | To debug ABAP programs |
Messages related to SE16
| MESSAGE | Description |
|---|---|
| CRM_PRICING101 | Pricing data for partner &1 could not be read |
| CRM_ORDER_CUST028 | No sales-specific Customizing entries maintained for item category &2 |
| E0004 | Choose a process type defined for EDI |
| E0002 | Define the master data for the partner first |
| E0011 | Define a directory and file or function module |
| ST400 | User settings saved for user & |
| E0005 | Report & does not exist |
| E0009 | Define a directory and file or function module |
| E0012 | Port type '&' is not supported for file interface |
| MO429 | No table entries found for specified key |
| CD163 | Entries for table & were not updated |
| E0006 | Specify the name for the logical host destination |
Table Fields related to SE16
Glossary/Terms related to SE16
A set of all data no longer needed in the system.
Archive
SRD - Cross-Components (SRD-CC)Electronic data storage for the collection and provision of documents containing data no longer in current use preserved for reference purposes.
The set of all reports for an organization, including the rules for creating and distributing such reports.
Classical application area of executable programs where the program flow implments the EVA principle by displaying a selection screen, importing data (often using a logical database), and displaying the formatted data in a list.
The selection, summarization and presentation of data from application systems.
Reporting
FS - Funding Management (FS-TXS)One of the transaction management processes.
An object that contains one or more data objects (a technical unit) for an archived object. An archiving session in turn may contain one or more archive files.
A document type for documents that represent database extracts and that can be generated in the SAP System and processed automatically. These documents contain archived application data that has been archived using the Archive Development Kit. This data can also be stored in an external storage system using SAP ArchiveLink.
A file that contains information about runtime errors.
Trace
BC - Java Application Server (BC-JAS)A file that keeps records,providing detailed information about events in the system. Generally, trace records are used for monitoring system or application runtime errors and are addressed to developers and support.
Trace
EIM - SAP Information Steward (EIM-IS)To display the objects through which the data passes from the source to the final target, or from the target to the first source.
Technology used by an analysis tool to record the occurrence of certain events in programs during runtime. The program events are recorded to analyze the program's behavior. Examples of program events include database accesses or the launching of subprograms.
Trace
SRD - CRO14-IT SAM (SRD-CC-ITS)A trace that is attached to an incident. Incident traces are tied to the life span of the incident.
The right to perform a given activity in the SAP system. Every authorization relates to an authorization object. It defines one or more values for every field contained in the authorization object. Authorizations are grouped into profiles that are entered in the user’s master record. An authorization comprises complete or generic values for the authorization fields of an authorization object. The combination deter mines which activities a user can use to access certain data.
Authorization
CA - SAP Anywhere (CA-ANW)Authority that is given to a role in order to perform an action.
Authorization
OPU - Duet (OPU-DUE)The process of granting a person, computer process, or device access to certain information, services or functionality. The authorization is derived from the identity of the person, computer process, or device requesting access, which is verified through authentication.
Authorization
PLM - PLM Design Collaboration (PLM-DC)The authority of a user to access a system. Authorization is derived from the identity of the person which is verified through authentication.
An affirmative response from the clearing house forwarded to the merchant to permit a card transaction.
Business transaction in the area of simplified customs declarations to request simplifications from a customs authority. For example, authorizations are requested from the German customs authority for the simplified procedure. Customs authorities run periodic checks to ensure that the company has fulfilled all regulatory requirements of the authorization.
Execution of an ABAP program using a transaction code. The following types of transactions are available: Dialog transactions, report transactions, parameter transactions, variant transactions, and OO transactions. A transaction is started by entering the transaction code in the command field on the standard toolbar or by using the statements CALL TRANSACTION or LEAVE TO TRANSACTION.
Logical R/3 process. From the user perspective, a transaction represents a unit (such as a change to a customer address or the execution of a program). From the ABAP programming perspective, a transaction one of two ways in which a user can call an ABAP program. The other method is to execute an executable program (or report).
Transaction
BI - SAP Predictive Analytics (BI-RA-PA)Specific type of data containing information about an exchange such as a purchase. It must contain at least a session identifier and an item that is the object of the exchange.
Transaction
BNS - Concur (BNS-CON)A company card expense transaction imported from the card provider.
The event-controlled representation of a condition that triggers an immediate posting if an activity occurs in the contract, such as a change to the contract master date, or the posting of a payment item.
Transaction
CEC - SAP Loyalty Marketing (CEC-MKT-LOY)An activity or event related to a loyalty member, which is processed by the rules defined in the loyalty program.
Transaction
CEC - Recommendation (CEC-MKT-PRI)Any sequence of actions performed by a user that could contribute to providing recommendations to a customer. For example, a business action in which a payment card is used to purchase goods or services, or the clickstream performed by a user to navigate to an item detail page.
Transaction
CEC - Sales Cloud Commissions (CEC-SAL-COM)The original sales (or other event) data, which includes sub-line data (who it was sold to, amount, and so on) on an order. Used as the basic undata for compensation processing in SAP Commissions.
The classification of postings in various SAP application components based on various business points of view. &EXAMPLE& Enter an invoice Post a goods receipt Create a confirmation Transactions are used to control the data flow between various application components.
Transaction
FI - Asset Retirement Obligation Management (FI-AF-ARO)A transaction, for example, cost estimation creation, and interest or inflation rate adjustment, for processing obligations, such as asset retirement obligations.
Groups together various accounting documents within a down payment chain. The transaction category determines which documents can be grouped together.
Transaction
FS - Liquidity Management Suite (FS-LMS)Transactions represent payments that occur at a bank. LMS uses a number of user-definable types of transactions such as anticipated, pending, expected, and actual.
A transaction is a change to an application or change option, which is executed online by a user, or in the background by the system, in a business process. This affects the Application or Change Option business object, and has the following properties: The change creates a new status in the Application or Change Option business object or creates a journal entry in the application or change option journal can be uniquely identified in the business object and in the journal, using the key policy number, contract number and journal number.
(ICM) An umbrella term for the events that may be triggered by a credentials check.
Transaction
IS - SAP for Utilities Market Communication (IS-U-MACO)An information packet inside an EDIFACT market message. A transaction, together with the sender and receiver information from the message header, can be processed independently.
Transaction
MFG - Digital Manufacturing Execution (MFG-DM-ME)An action type that is used to define the URL of an external or internal application.
Transaction
MFG - SAP Lean Planning and Operations (SAP LPO) (MFG-LPO)(MFG-LPO) An event that causes a change in material inventory.
Transaction
MOB - Syclo Agentry Mobile Platform (MOB-SYC-SAP-AGENT)The transaction action step type instantiates a transaction on the Agentry client and defines what screen set to display the transaction instance in.
Transaction
SAP - Global Field Legal (SAP-LEGAL)A single unit payment instruction that will be initiated by a Corporate Subscriber and executed at the Financial Services Subscriber or a single unit statement sent by a Financial Services Subscriber to the Corporate Subscriber.
A business action in which a payment card is used to purchase goods or services. The merchant is credited and money is collected from the cardholder or issuing bank.
Transaction
SRD - Cross-Components (SRD-CC)A sequence of information exchange treated as a unit so all related data is changed in its entirety. For example, an order transaction involves checking an inventory database, confirming the availability of the item, placing the order, and confirming the order. This ensures that order and inventory data is modified consistently.
Wiki
LOD - SAP JAMA feature that allows users to easily create and edit web pages using a text editor. Multiple users can access and edit the contents of the page.
A geometric transformation that refers only to a change in position, without a change in scale or rotation.
A portion of a position outflow for which valuations have already been carried out, in the context of determining price/rate gains and losses for position outflows.
Translation
FS - Accounting for Financial Products (FS-BA-PM-AFP)An item type for which the value or reserve parts are transferred to or from the "position value clearing" component for the purposes of internal clearing. A translation is a process step that is part of the derived business transactions and that clears position components when outflows occur.
Translation
IS - SAP Medical Research Insights (IS-PMED-MRI)The process of translating the sequence of a messenger RNA (mRNA) molecule to a sequence of amino acids during protein synthesis.
Translation
SBC - Shared Business Components (SBC)The process of converting a text from one language to another. Translation is one step in the localization process.
Objects
BI - SAP BusinessObjects ExplorerA tab within the Information Space creation and Information Space modification dialogs. Used for selecting and modifying the Universe objects that make up your Information Spaces.
An area in a separate file into which the print data of attached documents are written if the Adobe-based form printing solution is used. The output control displays the individudal parts of a spool request.
Subdivision of an electronic record into a sub-section. Parts are represented in the form of a record file in paper records management.
An object that is combined with other objects to make up a 3D model. Parts can be arranged in a hierarchical manner to form a sub-assembly or an assembly.
Part
IS - Dealer Business Management (IS-A-DBM)A material that can be built in to a vehicle.
Part
PLM - SAP Teamcenter by Siemens (PLM-TBS)A business object type that can participate in a structure as an assembly or component, with or without attached datasets.
Part
SCM - Asset Central Foundation (SCM-AIN-ACF)A single piece of an item of equipment. For example: seal, tube, shell, gasket, filler.
The transfer of SAP System components from one system to another. The components to be transported are specified in the object list of a transport request. Each transport consists of an export process and an import process: The export process reads objects from the source system and stores them in a data file at operating system level. The import process reads objects from the data file and writes them to the database of the target system. The SAP System maintains a transport log of all actions during export and import.
Transport
EP - NEO (EP-CPP-NEO)The transfer of a site from one SAP HANA Cloud Portal account or landscape to another, including all site resources, widgets, themes, and users.
Transport
MFG - SAP Manufacturing Execution (MFG-ME)In Document Maintenance, the name of the Java class that is executed to transport formatted data to a third-party printing package. In Collaboration Directive Maintenance, the type of transport to be used for the collaboration directive: ERP Confirmation DB Transport, ERP Confirmation EJB Transport, ERP Confirmation Transport, Simple HTTP Transport, or Site-to-Site Transport.
The collection, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of masses of numerical data.
Statistics
EIM - SAP BusinessObjects Data Federator (EIM-DI-DF)Numeric information about data stored in sources that are used for data federation, including such things as estimated number of entries in a table, estimated number of distinct values in a column, or average number of relationships between each value in a column and another column.
Statistics
MP - Bulletin Board (MP-APP-BB)A note traffic monitoring tool that allows initiators to track how oftentheir notes have been accessed by other users in a given period of time.
Statistics
SRM - SRM Supplier Directory (SRM-SUD)Evaluation service in the Business Directory. Users can use this service to find out, for example, how often their company has been compared with other companies within the Business Directory.
SAP Help, Wiki, Q&A and other resources for SE16
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Archive File Browser | SAP Help Portal
Relevancy Factor: 1430.0Archive File Browser (AFB) provides functions for displaying the contents of archive files. It offers a technical view of the archived tables in much the same way as the Data Browser does for data from the database.
"In addition to a search for archive files, a technical search for field contents is also possible in which the AFB searches for the contents of fields in a table (similar to transaction SE16)."
https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ERP_SPV/c6ef916aeac74db0a6bec2142bc00248/4d9d4461e22b5042e10000000a42189c.htmlArchive Files | SAP Help Portal
Relevancy Factor: 930.0The AFB operates using data objects. An archive file is divided into a header and several data objects. A data object is often an instance of the business object that corresponds to the archiving object.
"In addition to checking the authorization to access the archive (authorization object S_ARCHIVE), checks have been implemented in the AFB that allow or forbid the display of archived data in a similar way as for the Data Browser (transaction SE16). This involves the display authorization for authorization object S_TABU_DIS. The authorization to display data from a table should not change due to it being archived. The same should apply for archived data as for data from the database."
https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ERP_SPV/c6ef916aeac74db0a6bec2142bc00248/4d9d446ce22b5042e10000000a42189c.htmlAuthorization Checks - SAP Help Portal
Relevancy Factor: 620.0To ensure that a user has the relevant authorizations when he or she performs an action, users are subject to authorization checks.
https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_NETWEAVER_740/c6e6d078ab99452db94ed7b3b7bbcccf/4ca0ac7a68243b9ee10000000a42189b.htmlFinding and Correcting Errors with CCMSPING - SAP Help Portal
Relevancy Factor: 590.0If problems occur during the availability monitoring with CCMSPING, work through the points below.
https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_NETWEAVER_740/984899fe989d4efab0409b818433f892/306694413aaad960e10000000a1550b0.htmlPage Not Found - SAP Help Portal
Relevancy Factor: 520.0There may be an error in the URL, or you may be trying to access a legacy page that is no longer supported. Please try searching for your content, or browse the links below.
https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_NETWEAVER_DBOS/6c68182e6b4d4c87b890a4e11d4a5aa1/548c09985a59448f97349a399e5a2434.html?locale=en-US&state=PRODUCTION&version=103Tables/Views/Synonyms - SAP Help Portal
Relevancy Factor: 450.0You can use the Database Objects user menu in the DBA Cockpit to obtain information about a specified database table, view table, or their synonyms.
https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_NETWEAVER_DBOS/6c68182e6b4d4c87b890a4e11d4a5aa1/548c09985a59448f97349a399e5a2434.html/?&version=104Archive Files - SAP Help Portal
Relevancy Factor: 380.0Area Prerequisite ...
https://help.sap.com/viewer/c6ef916aeac74db0a6bec2142bc00248/6.06.19/en-US/4d9d446ce22b5042e10000000a42189c.htmlChanging the Monitoring Frequency and Timeouts of CCMSPING | SAP Help Portal
Relevancy Factor: 360.0In addition to configuring which systems and application servers are to be monitored by CCMSPING (seeConfiguring Availability Monitoring), you can also define the frequency with which CCMSPING should perform the availability monitoring, and for how long it should wait for a response from the message servers and the application servers when it does so.
"Since there is no separate user interface for maintaining the technical settings, you need to make the settings in the Data Browser (transaction SE16):"
https://help.sap.com/docs/ABAP_PLATFORM_NEW/984899fe989d4efab0409b818433f892/71199a41cffaad5fe10000000a1550b0.htmlChanging the Monitoring Frequency and Timeouts of CCMSPING - SAP Help Portal
Relevancy Factor: 290.0In addition to configuring which systems and application servers are to be monitored by CCMSPING (seeConfiguring Availability Monitoring), you can also define the frequency with which CCMSPING should perform the availability monitoring, and for how long it should wait for a response from the message servers and the application servers when it does so.
"Since there is no separate user interface for maintaining the technical settings, you need to make the settings in the Data Browser (transaction SE16):"
https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_NETWEAVER_731_BW_ABAP/984899fe989d4efab0409b818433f892/71199a41cffaad5fe10000000a1550b0.htmlArchivdateien - SAP Help Portal
Relevancy Factor: 290.0Bereich Voraussetzung ...
https://help.sap.com/viewer/c6ef916aeac74db0a6bec2142bc00248/6.06.22/de-DE/4d9d446ce22b5042e10000000a42189c.html