Friday, July 10, 2026

S416* suite of data browser related t-codes in BW system

In my last post I wrote about a suite of Data Browser related tcodes. Those SE16* tcodes exits in SAP systems that runs on S/4HANA Foundation such as SAP S4/HANA. This is because they are part of software layer SAP_APPL  or SAP_FIN. However, the tcodes mentioned were ported to other software layer - SAP_ABA. Thus, are available in BW (as well as SCM, CRM, Solution Manager, etc.)  systems as well.

What is different is actually the particular tcodes it self. In S/4 they follow SE16* but in other systems they follow S416* or S4H16* names.

SAP_APPL name

corresponding SAP_ABAP name           

description

SE16N

S416N and S4H16N

GTB

SE16H

S416H and S4H16H

Enhanced GTB

SE16D

S416D and S4H16D

GTB Display Mode

SE16S

S416S

GSS

SE16S

S4H16S

GSS Multi Text

SE16SL

S416SL

GSS Column Based

SE16SL

S4H16SL

GSS Depend Read

SE16N_ROLE

S416N_ROLE

GTB Role Maintenance

SE16J

S416QL

GTB Query Launcher

SE16S_CUST

S416S_CUST

GSS: Maintenance of Search Patterns

n/a

S416S_DEP

GSS: Maintenance of Dependencies

n/a

S416CD

GTB: Display Change Documents

 

GTB stands for Generic Table Display

GSS stands for Generic Smart Search

 

More information:

2140828 - GTB: Documentation of generic table display functions

1636416 - CO-OM tools: Functions of transaction SE16H

2124497 - Downport of the SE16* transactions to the software layer SAP_ABA

 

S416CD               GTB: Display Change Documents

S416D                Generic Table Browser Display Mode

S416H                Enhanced Generic Table Browser

S416N                Generic Table Browser

S416N_ROLE           GTB: Role Maintenance

S416QL               GTB: Query Launcher

S416S                Generic Smart Search: Text Input

S416S_CUST           GSS: Maintenance of Search Patterns

S416S_DEP            GSS: Maintenance of Dependencies

S416SL               Generic Smart Search (column based)

S4H16D               Generic Table Browser Display Mode

S4H16H               Enhanced Generic Table Browser

S4H16N               Generic Table Browser

S4H16S               Generic Smart Search: Multi Text

S4H16SL              Generic Smart Search: dependent read