To use an
ABAP query, the user must have appropriate authorizations. Two ways of providing
authorizations to the users are as follows:
User groups
The user
should be a part of at least one user group to run the corresponding ABAP query.
This automatically restricts the access of the user to specific functional
areas, and thus the corresponding underlying logical databases.
Authorizations
The
authorization object S_QUERY should be used to give proper authorizations to the
user for a query. This authorization object has a field named ACTVT which can
take values 02 for Change, 23 for Maintain and 67 for Translate.
This value determines whether the user can create
and modify the query. The possible authorizations in the object are as follows:
S_QUERY_ALL Change, maintain and translate query
S_QUERY_UPD Change and Translate
Though the general concept of an ABAP query is
moderately difficult, the results and the long term use of the ABAP query is
worth the effort.
