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Following program downloads Employee Data into Excel file(.xls). The selection criteria can be specified at the run time. It also uses Logical Database ‘PNP’ ( to be specified in the program attributes) to retrieve various personnel data.
Creating / Maintaining a Report Category is one of the important task in ABAP HR when handling Logical Databases. Report Category provides an added flexibility in term of field selection to be displayed on screen and the handling of fields in the back-end.
PNPCE database in many ways can be said as the extension of PNP logical database. PNP doesn’t contain all the data elements that are now in the expanded Concurrent Employment Database. SAP made an internal decision to not modify PNP, rather supercede it with a newer logical database, PNPCE.
The PNPCE logical database supports the evaluation of HR master data. It includes the functions of the PNP logical database and offers additional evaluation options. Therefore, PNPCE logical database should be preffered over PNP database for all new developments.
The Logical Database is special type of ABAP program that combines the contents of certain related database tables and retrieve some related data and make it available to application programs.
In other words, a LDB is a method by which ABAP programs read and process the data. The sequence in which the data is supplied to the program is determined by a tree structure.
