Dialog step

hello,
Do u know Dialog step ?
Thank you.

A dialog step from a program is assigned to a single work process for execution.
The individual dialog steps of a program can be executed on different work processes, and the program context must be addressed for each new work process.
A work process can execute dialog steps of different programs from different users.
a work process must open a separate datables LUW for each dialog step. The work process sends a commit command (database commit) to the database at the end of each dialog step in which it makes database changes. These commit commands are called implicit database commits, since they are not explicitly written into the application program.
Have a look at below link for details:
[Application Servers|http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/fc/eb2e8a358411d1829f0000e829fbfe/frameset.htm]
I hope it helps.
Thanks,
Vibha
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