Queued RFC and Exceptions?

Hi,
I have a question regarding queued RFC calls:
How can I react on / see an exception which is raised by a function which was called as queued RFC? I'm not talking about the system exceptions which are raised when technical problems occur, but about custom made ones which I would normally raise via RAISING.
Is there any possibility to do this? Are those exceptions logged somewhere (on the destination or the source system)?
Unfortunately the only system logs I found so far, are the transactions SMQ1 or SMQ1 which both only show technical problems while calling the RFC.
Thanks a lot in advance...
- Marcus

Hi Marcus,
Did you check SM58?
Srinivas

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> u2022     An interface is asynchronous In bound in ECC from PI as a PROXY message and the quality of message is EOIO (Exactly once in order) i.e. it has a definite queue.
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> u2022     Expected is that the queue should not stop or not go into SYSFAILT if an application exception is thrown.
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