16. Authorization, passing data between programa, catching runtime errors

Question 1

Authority object

Answer 1

Is generally created by a security or system administrator based on the sensitivity of certain fields.
The authority object is checked in the ABAP program to ensure that the user has the appropriate level of authority.

Question 2

AUTHORITY-CHECK statement

Answer 2

Lists the fields to be checked and verifies what the user is attempting to do against what the user is authorised to do.

Question 3

DUMMY option

Answer 3

Suppresess the authority check for the field indicated

Question 4

CATCH/ENDCATCH block

Answer 4

Allows a programmer to catch ABAP runtime errors and assign these to a SY-SUBRC value so an error can be reported in a controlled manner (rather than with a short dump).