Conversion of ABAP procedural ABAP OO in TRs, URs

Hello:
We are planning on migrating from NW04 to NW04s n Q3.
We have a quite bit of ABAP routines in TRs, URs and User Exits.
We have plans on using 04s Datasource features
I have following questions:
1. When Datasource is migrated to 04s, are we forced to migrate existing routines to ABAP OO ?
2.Is there a tool that converts the existing routines to ABAP OO?
3.If we are forced to migrate to ABAP OO, What happens to custom ABAP code used to extend extractors in the source system?
Appreciate your responses
Vijay

Hi Vijay,
from my limited experience with 04s and my not so limited experience with user exits I recommend the following way to handle the upgrade:
1. Do the upgrade.
2. Check out the new features and check where you need them. Normally you have a handful of Info-/DataSources where you want to use the new features and dozens of master data sources where you don't need to change the process.
3. For those DataSources you want to change you should check out if you still want to keep the InfoSources. A transformation can directly connect the DataSource and the InfoProvider but if you load data into multiple InfoProviders you may want to keep the InfoSource.
4. I wasn't able to check the tool to do the transformation but from my understanding it switches either a transfer rule or an update rule to a transformation and doesn't condense both rules and the InfoSource into a single transformation. (Andreas, is this true?) So you should use this on these UR/TR where you keep the InfoSource.
5. If you want to skip the InfoSource create a new transformation for your new DS. Here you need to copy and adjust your coding to ABAP OO. But don't worry, it didn't change a lot and you don't need to think about classes and inheritance to do the implementation.
Best regards
   Dirk

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    PROGRAM SAPMTEST *
    WRITTEN BY KARL BYTE, 06/27/1995 *
    LAST CHANGED BY RITA DIGIT, 10/01/1995 *
    TASK: DEMONSTRATION *
    PROGRAM SAPMTEST.
    DECLARATIONS *
    DATA: FLAG " GLOBAL FLAG
    NUMBER TYPE I " COUNTER
    PROCESSING BLOCKS *
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    Examples of declarative keywords:
    TYPES, DATA, TABLES
    Modularization Statements
    These statements define the processing blocks in an ABAP program.
    The modularization keywords can be further divided into:
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    Examples of definitive keywords:
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    Examples of control keywords:
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    Line type
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    The table type (and particularly the access method) that you will use depends on how the typical internal table operations will be most frequently executed.
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    Advanced Topics
    Batch Input: Concepts
    Processing Sessions
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    Making Enhancements: With the Enhancement Framework, you can enhance programs, function modules, and global classes without modification as well as replace existing code. The Switch Framework enables you activate only specific development objects or enhancements in a system.
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    It should be common-sense that avoiding select-statements onto the database helps reducing the server load. For that the programmer either can resort to function modules if available. This maybe is the case for important tables. Or the programmer needs to implement his own logic using internal tables. Here, the standard software package could provide the developer with a tool or a mechanism auto-generating memory cached tables resp. function modules implementing this.
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    Interfaces
    It should be noticed that some function modules available have an incomplete interface. That means, the interface does not include all parameters evaluated by the logic of the function module. For example, global variables from within the function group could be read out, which cannot be influenced by the general caller. Or memory parameters are used internally to feed the logic with further information.
    One workaround here would be copying the relevant parts of the logic to a newly created function module and then adapt it to the own context. This sometimes is possible, maybe if the copied code is not too lengthy and only a few or no calls to other logic is part of it.
    A modification of the SAP code could be considered, if the modification itself is unavoidable (or another solution would be not justifiable by estimated effort to spend on it) and if the location of the modification seems quite safe against future upgrades or hot fixes. The latter is something that could be evaluated by contacting the SAP hotline or working with OSS message (searching thru existing one, perhaps open a new one).
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    obj_typ = istourhd-doc_type
    obj_id = istourhd-doc_id
    EXCEPTIONS
    foreign_lock = 1
    system_failure = 2
    OTHERS = 3.
    IF sy-subrc <> 0.
    terminate processing...
    lf_bapi_error = true.—
    ...and add message to return table
    PERFORM set_msg_to_bapiret2
    USING sy-msgid gc_abort sy-msgno
    sy-msgv1 sy-msgv2 sy-msgv3 sy-msgv4
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    ENDIF.
    ENDIF.
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    Example Report(Type - ALV(Advanced List Viewer))
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    Using the following syntax, REUSE_ALV_FIELDCATALOG_MERGE can auto-
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    maktx like marav-maktx, "Material short text
    matkl like marav-matkl, "Material group (so you can test to make
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    ntgew like marav-ntgew, "Net weight, numeric field (so you can test to
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    data i_repid like sy-repid.
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    data i_lines like sy-tabix.
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    TYPE-POOLS: SLIS.
    data int_fcat type SLIS_T_FIELDCAT_ALV.
    select-options:
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    start-of-selection.
    read data into table imat
    select * from marav
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    where
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    clear i_lines.
    describe table imat lines i_lines.
    if i_lines lt 1.
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    write: /
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    exit.
    endif.
    end-of-selection.
    To use ALV, we need a DDIC-structure or a thing called Fieldcatalogue.
    The fieldcatalouge can be generated by FUNCTION
    'REUSE_ALV_FIELDCATALOG_MERGE' from an internal table from any
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    Store report name
    i_repid = sy-repid.
    Create Fieldcatalogue from internal table
    CALL FUNCTION 'REUSE_ALV_FIELDCATALOG_MERGE'
    EXPORTING
    I_PROGRAM_NAME = i_repid
    I_INTERNAL_TABNAME = 'IMAT' "capital letters!
    I_INCLNAME = i_repid
    CHANGING
    CT_FIELDCAT = int_fcat
    EXCEPTIONS
    INCONSISTENT_INTERFACE = 1
    PROGRAM_ERROR = 2
    OTHERS = 3.
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    I_INCLNAME is the ABAP-source where the internal table is defined
    (DATA....)
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    IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
    write: /
    'Returncode',
    sy-subrc,
    'from FUNCTION REUSE_ALV_FIELDCATALOG_MERGE'.
    ENDIF.
    *This was the fieldcatlogue
    Call for ALV list display
    CALL FUNCTION 'REUSE_ALV_LIST_DISPLAY'
    EXPORTING
    I_CALLBACK_PROGRAM = i_repid
    IT_FIELDCAT = int_fcat
    TABLES
    T_OUTTAB = imat
    EXCEPTIONS
    PROGRAM_ERROR = 1
    OTHERS = 2.
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    I_CALLBACK_PROGRAM is the program which calls this function
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    I_SAVE allows the user to save his own layouts
    T_OUTTAB contains the data to be displayed in ALV
    IF SY-SUBRC <> 0.
    write: /
    'Returncode',
    sy-subrc,
    'from FUNCTION REUSE_ALV_LIST_DISPLAY'.
    ENDIF.
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    After the creation of CLass and methods come to SE38 and create the program.
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    Regards
    Anji

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    http://www.esnips.com/doc/375fff1b-5a62-444d-8ec1-55508c308b17/prefinalppt.ppt
    http://www.esnips.com/doc/2c76dc57-e74a-4539-a20e-29383317e804/OO-abap.pdf
    http://www.esnips.com/doc/5c65b0dd-eddf-4512-8e32-ecd26735f0f2/prefinalppt.ppt
    http://www.allsaplinks.com/
    http://www.sap-img.com/
    http://www.sapgenie.com/
    http://help.sap.com
    http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/OO/
    http://www.sapgenie.com.
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    http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/controls/index.htm
    http://www.esnips.com/doc/2c76dc57-e74a-4539-a20e-29383317e804/OO-abap.pdf
    http://www.esnips.com/doc/0ef39d4b-586a-4637-abbb-e4f69d2d9307/SAP-CONTROLS-WORKSHOP.pdf
    http://www.sapgenie.com/abap/OO/index.htm
    http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2005/helpdata/en/ce/b518b6513611d194a50000e8353423/frameset.htm
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