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To analyze ABAP code in Kiuwan, source code and information from SAP system need to be exported previously to be analyzed by Kiuwan. SAP Extractor (SAPEX) for Kiuwan performs these tasks. NOTE: SAPEX is expected to run in any SAP NetWeaver 7.4+ platform. Contact Kiuwan Technical Support Kiuwan Support for previous platform versions. |
Using SAPGUI to check the version of NetWeaver (ABAP Application Server)
As SAPEX needs to read source code / system information from multiple SAP tables, a user with enough rights should be used.
It has been proved that the extractor works using a SAP user with the following permissions:
SAP Extractor for Kiuwan (SAPEX) is distributed as a Transport Request. This way, you can easily install all the required SAPEX source programs importing the transport request into your target SAP system. SAPEX binay files (data-file and co-file) are contained into
Note: If you cannot use this installation mechanism you can also install SAPEX by manually installing source code ( please visit Manual Installation of SAP Extractor) |
In this section we will import the Transport Request for SAPEX that is included in your Kiuwan Local Analyzer distribution.
You can find the Transport Request as a zip file ( |
First, just unzip into your local system. This will extract two files :
Please note that last 3 digits of the transport numbers might be different in most recent versions.
Next, you need to copy the extracted co-file and data-file to your SAP System.
Please note that destination directories are for a unix sap system. In case of a SAP Windows system, typically is <drive>:\usr\sap\trans |
If you have direct access to your SAP system, you can directly copy them.
Otherwise, execute SE37 and execute ARCHIVFILE_CLIENT_TO_SERVER function. Click on Test/Execute
Then select the files you want to import (in your local machine) and the target path (in the SAP server), check the Uppercase/Lowercase and Execute it.
In order to confirm the copy, you can use AL11 to check the transfer was done to the correct places.
Execute it and double click on DIR_TRANS row.
For cofiles, you should see something like tha below image. Similarly for data directory.
Next, SAPEX Transport Request must be imported into your SAP system |
Execute STMS and click on Import Overview
Then you will see your Import Queue(s).
Double-click on the queue and you will see the requests for that queue.
Now you should add the SAPEX Transport Request ( Extras >> Other Requests >> Add)
Click on the Transp. Request to see available Transport Requests:
Select it
Then you will see the SAPEX Transport Request, select it and click on Import Request
Check the Options tab as below.
Once finished the import process, you can check it using SE09.
After importing SAPEX Transport Request, you must create OS commands (ZKW_MKDIR and ZKW_RMDIR)
To do it, please follow instructions at Create OS commands (ZKW_MKDIR and ZKW_RMDIR)
Only in case you decide a local scenario, you must create OS command (ZKW_KLA_AGENT)
To do it, please follow instructions at Create OS command to launch the analysis (ZKW_KLA_AGENT)