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Symptom
You want to use the report RSPPFPROCESS (transaction SPPFP) to process actions; processing takes place in the background, indicator: Processing Without Dialog.
The selection of the actions takes a long time.
Other terms
RSPPFPROCESS, SPPFP, background mode, SELECT ORDER BY PRIMARY KEY
Reason and Prerequisites
During “Processing Without Dialog”, the actions to be processed are selected and processed in packages and sorted according to their primary key. This selection may take a long time.
Solution
On the selection screen, specify an additional variant for sorting the actions. In this case, the system does not select the actions in packages, but only once (the addition ORDER BY PRIMARY KEY is removed). This should speed up the selection of actions. However, it requires more main memory because a larger number of actions must be retained in the memory.
If a variant for sorting is not yet available, create a new variant as follows:
Use any criteria to select several actions in dialog mode (the indicator “Processing Without Dialog” is initial).Use the function “Save Layout (Ctrl+F10)” to create a new sorting variant (it is not relevant whether or not sorting is actually carried out in this variant).Use this variant for processing your actions in the “Processing Without Dialog” mode.