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Published on October 26, 2008 in Basis. 25 Comments Tags: Basis, tables.

No matter security on table editing. When in transaction SE16N use the command &SAP_EDIT in the command field in SAP and off

you go: edit table content directly.

Know what you are doing cause this is far from a best practice way of changing data and can screw up things pretty bad if you don’t

really know what you are doing. If the value that you wish to change is a dependent variable to another (background) process stay clear

of this method. If you are not sure – seriously: don’t edit the table content.

See my other post on how to track change by people who edited tables with this method.

Step-by-step

1) Go to transaction SE16N or alternatively use shortcut and type just ‘N’. Enter here the table that you wish to edit.

SE16N or just N

2) In the command field enter ‘&SAP_EDIT’ and press enter. The maintenance indicator in SE16N will switch on.

Command field entry

3) Narrow your search results by entering selection criteria and press F8 to run the report.

4) You can remove lines or just add/change data and press save.



&SAP_EDIT - SE16N - Table results

Voila! You just hacked your way into the table structure and made some changes.

Update 05-Oct-2009: interesting comments made on this hack: blog on IT toolbox

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25 Responses to “Edit SAP tables”

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infuzory

November 29, 2008 at 4:31 pm

VERY interesting and useful, thanks

Kowboy

December 2, 2008 at 4:20 pm

Cheers, I appreciate you leaving the site with a thank you.

Manish

February 19, 2009 at 10:21 am

Hi,

I found this very interesting. I can use it on R/3 but I do not see transaction code se16n or n in SCM system. Is there any other

way to edit the table entries directly on SCM system ?

Thank you

Manish.

Kowboy

February 19, 2009 at 7:21 pm

Hi Manish, I’m assuming you are referring to the APO system? Information is managed different. Unfortunately I have no in-depth

experience with this system. Regards, Kowboy

Rajesh

September 23, 2009 at 11:12 pm

Very very useful tip. Thanks a ton for sharing!!

chichi

November 6, 2009 at 4:47 am

Thank you for the tips … I can edit my FMIOI table I put this link in of of my posting …

Insider

February 4, 2010 at 10:24 am



Thanks to the distribution in your Blog the function was deactivated. Have a look at SAP Note 1420281.

Becky

August 30, 2010 at 5:14 pm

Hi Kowboy, we are in a development freeze (due to our current upgrade) but need an emergency change to a table in production.

Since this would have required a program change (very frowned upon at present), we used this method instead for now. Great for

only changing a few entries, but dangerous for large scale table changes, as you of course know. Thanks for sharing this useful

knowledge!

Thib

September 29, 2010 at 10:46 am

Are the changes transportable ??

Pablo

October 21, 2010 at 4:57 pm

donde trabajo instalaron unos SP y ahora no se puede utilizar la SE16N para modificar tablas… como se hace ahora?

javier

October 21, 2010 at 11:21 pm

Hola Pablo, intenta crear un programa ABAP con las lineas de insert y listo.

Sujit

October 27, 2010 at 12:21 pm

Thank you for the tips. This is very usefullllllllllllllllll

Disdainful

November 3, 2010 at 11:23 pm

Kowboy by name Cowboy by nature..

why would you want to post about something that undermines the very principles of a fully integrated ERP? And those that use

this… why?? maybe have a chat with your local friendly Auditor and see what they think?

Steve

November 18, 2010 at 8:14 am

Thanks mate!!! Very useful.

SAPBasisMan

December 15, 2010 at 6:48 pm

To Disdainful

… you obviously don’t live in the real world.

Sometimes this is the only way to rectify critical situations in a Production environment. Ur probably a not techie type manager ..

This has been around a while ..

See quote from SAP themselves

“The sole purpose of this function was to enable the well-trained SAP Support experts to provide a fast solution for customers in

a highly critical situation.

The special function &SAP_EDIT was protected in the system by the highest developer authorization that could be assigned.”

But obviously you don’t fill the criteria mentioned by SAP



ms. sy-subrc=0

January 19, 2011 at 4:24 am

this code ‘&SAP_EDIT’ is not working. before i can used this when i edit sap table. but now it doesnt open the maintenance

indicator.

vincent

January 24, 2011 at 2:40 am

this is very interesting.

Thanks

Bart


Thanks, With this explenation we can do it by our own!

saving a lot of time and money!

Regards,

Bart

Kowboy


It’s possible that the security to access &SAP_EDIT is tightened so the transaction cannot be used anymore. SAP gave some

attention to this loophole after the wider publicity this feature got.

Axe

March 9, 2011 at 7:49 pm

“Using &SAP_EDIT functionality users can update tables even with SE16N (SAP has removed this

function with note 1420281.). ”

“The content was delivered in Release 600 with Support Package 17 and Support Package 18.”

Good that the backdoor’s been closed, as this would be extremely damaging in the hands of a cowboy. But agree, there are

occassions where this may be the only way to correct a critical error.

I expect SAP have another way, or it’s possible to roll back the Note in extreme circumstances, but likely to be unsupported!

APO SCM

April 13, 2011 at 2:32 am

Thanks for the advice, Will have to check but it is certainly very useful for the urgent situation and for the experienced consultant.

Vijay

May 4, 2011 at 10:15 am

&SAP_EDIT is not working to activate Maintain entries.

Could you please help how to edit table entries…

Thanks,

Vijay.

AvtJune 9, 2011 at 11:24 am

Instead use the transaction UASE16N until they take it away

Utilizar la transaccion UASE16N mientras no la deshabiliten tambien.



Un saludo

=F=

July 19, 2011 at 2:20 pm

Hi,

with proper authorizations you can still make &sap_edit work

Check http://stankowski.it/sap/adm/editse16n.html for details.

=F=

Jronman64

July 21, 2011 at 12:37 pm

After support packages Ehp4 we lost SE16N and UASE16N. I found the possibility to go over SE37 and

SE16N_INTERFACE, i can see and change tables, but can not search for specific fields. Can you help me?

regards

JR



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