SAP ABAP LANGUAGE INCLUDE documentation, setup help and usage info

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Include Programs
Include programs are used to split ABAP source code into individual repository objects . An ABAP program can be created in the program attributes using the program type include program. Include programs do not need to contain introductory statements for programs and cannot be generated independently from the ABAP compiler. When using the statement
INCLUDE , however, include programs can be integrated into compilation units .
An include program must contain complete statements. It can include other include programs but not it cannot include itself. An include program does not need to contain complete processing blocks.
ABAP_PGL Do not use include programs more than once

Notes

For the global declaration section of an ABAP program, a special top include is available which is included in the compilation of individual include programs of a program.

Master programs such as class pools or function groups are organized in include programs automatically by ABAP Workbench.

SAP ABAP LANGUAGE INCLUDE documentation, setup help and example usage