Learn about the ABAP Data Dictionary
Open an ABAP package containing Data Dictionary objects and find out more about them.
You will learn
- How to find objects in the ABAP Dictionary
Prerequisites
- You have a running ABAP application server (AS ABAP). This tutorial was created in the AS ABAP developer edition, 752, download version. For more information, see SAP Developer Community: Trials and Downloads.
- Tutorial: Create an ABAP project
The ABAP Dictionary describes and manages all the data definitions (metadata) used in the ABAP system to work with data types, database tables, and views. In this tutorial, you will open an ABAP package containing some of these objects and find out how they fit together.
You will open an ABAP package, SAPBC_DATAMODEL
, and look at the ABAP Dictionary objects in it. This package contains all the object types you will learn about in this tutorial (and more), and is delivered with every ABAP System.
For more information, see Data Types in the ABAP Keyword Documentation.