COMMIT (ABAP Keyword)

COMMIT (ABAP Keyword) introduction & details

COMMIT

Basic form
COMMIT WORK.

Addition

… AND
WAIT

Effect
Executes a database commit and thus closes a logical
processing unit or Logical Unit of Work ( LUW ) (see also Transaction processing
). This means that

all database changes are made irrevocable and cannot
be reversed with ROLLBACK WORK and

all database locks are
released.

COMMIT WORK also

calls the subroutines specified by
PERFORM … ON COMMIT ,

executes asynchronously any update requests (see
CALL FUNCTION … IN UPDATE TASK ) specified in these subroutines or started
just before,

processes the function modules specified in CALL FUNCTION
… IN BACKGROUND TASK ,

cancels all existing locks (see SAP locking
concept ) if no update requests exist,

closes all open database cursors
(see OPEN CURSOR ) and

resets the time slice counter to 0.

COMMIT
WORK belongs to the Open SQL command set.
Return code value
The SY-SUBRC
is set to 0.

Notes
All subroutines called with PERFORM … ON COMMIT
are processed in the LUW concluded by the COMMIT WORK command. All V1 update
requests specified in CALL FUNCTION … IN UPDATE TASK are also executed in one
LUW . When all V1 update requests have been successfully concluded, the V2
update requests (“update with start delayed”) are processed, each in one LUW .
Parallel to this, the function modules specified in CALL FUNCTION … IN
BACKGROUND TASK are each executed in one LUW per destination.
COMMIT WORK
commands processed within CALL DIALOG processing

– execute a database
commit (see above),
– close all open database cursors,
– reset the time
slice counter and
– call the function modules specified by CALL FUNCTION
IN
BACKGROUND TASK in the CALL DIALOG processing.

However, subroutines
and function modules called with PERFORM … ON COMMIT or CALL FUNCTION … IN
UPDATE TASK in the CALL DIALOG processing are not executed in the calling
transaction until a COMMIT WORK occurs.
Since COMMIT WORK closes all open
database cursors, any attempt to continue a SELECT loop after a COMMIT WORK
results in a runtime error. For the same reason, a FETCH after a COMMIT WORK on
the now closed cursors also produces a runtime error. You must therefore ensure
that any open cursors are no longer used after the COMMIT WORK .
With batch
input and CALL TRANSACTION … USING , COMMIT WORK successfully concludes the
processing.

Addition
… AND WAIT

Effect
The addition …
AND WAIT makes the program wait until the type V1 updates have been
completed.

The return code value is set as follows:

SY-SUBRC =
0 The update was successfully performed.
SY-SUBRC <> 0 The update could
not be successfully performed.

Note
Runtime
errors

COMMIT_IN_PERFORM_ON_COMMIT : COMMIT WORK is not allowed in a FORM
callled with PERFORM … ON COMMIT .
COMMIT_IN_POSTING : COMMIT WORK is not
allowed in the update task.