Determine when a report was last executed in the SAP production environment

Need to determine when a report was last executed in production? Application development expert describes how to find low-usage SAP reports.

Matthew Billingham

Published: 18 Oct 2005

Is it possible to find out when a custom program/report was last executed in the production environment?

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You need to write code in each report to capture the information. Some information is available in Basis, but it is reset with each reboot, so is not useful for finding low-usage reports.

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