Securing ABAP objects, from viewers and from change

Question

I would like to transport an ABAP program, but not allow my customers to see or change its logic.
Is this possible?

Answer 1

Hi Dean,
I think the final answer to your question is NO it can't be done.
As SAP is quite like an open source system and all the coding is stored anywhere in the database you can't hide it if someone knows a little bit where and how to look for it. So SAP uses the possibility of hiding programs by special naming conventions but these programs can be accessed by statements like load or read report or you just start the debugger while they are running and read the code while it is processed (at least until today we found everything we wanted ;o)).
Of course it is posible to make every code more difficult to understand by deleting all comments and naming varialbles v1, v2, ... You could also use excessive dynamical programming, trmac includes or even runtime code generation and execution to make things nearly impossible to understand but this kind of code should never pass the tests of a customer.
rgds.
Roman