Message in background job

Question

Hi All,
I have a report program which is executed in background. I am calling that from a FM.
The report program after successful execution exports the reuslt back to the FM.
In the report , I have a validation which goes like
if itab is inlitial.
message 'XXXXX'.
exit.
endif.
As the program is executed in background, will this message command cause any problem?
The problem i am facing is the job is cancelled whenever this message command is encountered.
Kindly suggest whether i can have a message command in a report which is executed in background.
Thanks in advance
Uday Kuamr.

Answer 1

Hi Uday,
Instead of generating messages in the REPORT it's better you do generate a LOG containing all the messages of types ERROR,WARNING,ABEND,SUCCESS and INFORMATION. Then later you can use that LOG to analyze.
To create an application log look at the FM BAL_LOG_MSG_ADD
Also look into the function group SBAL where you would get a list of FM's which are related to activities with application logs.
You can also find the documentation inside the function modules to understand what parameters have to be passed as well as in which order to call the function modules.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Samantak