Troubleshooting of RAP Draft Lock Expiration and Draft Cleanup

Have you ever encountered issues with enqueue locks or drafts that were not removed automatically?

We recently faced exactly this situation in one of our systems and were finally able to identify the root cause and resolve the issue.

Background

Draft data is persisted in the draft tables of

BINARY SEARCH in ABAP - What Is Dead May Never Die

This year (2026), at a BW/4HANA customer: brand-new transformation routines in ABAP, cleanly formatted, modern syntax in many places. And right in the middle of it, a READ TABLE ... BINARY SEARCH. Written by a developer who was so young that BINARY SEARCH was already outdated when he was born. W