SAP ABAP Message Class 00 Message Number 261 (Storage area for GUI status & & too small)
Hierarchy
SAP_BASIS (Software Component) SAP Basis Component
   BC-ABA-SC (Application Component) UI Services, Screen, Batch Input
     SDYN (Package) DYNP
Attribute
Message class 00  
Short Description General Basis texts    
Message Number 261  
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Message Text
Storage area for GUI status & & too small
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Diagnosis

The memory area of the basis software for the GUI status is too small for the requested status. The following is stored in this area:

  • Administration information in fixed length
  • Menu structure, F keys and push buttons of a status
  • The texts of the complete interface (not just of the status)
  • The active and the requested Excluding list (SET PF-STATUS... EXCLUDING ...).

System Response

Termination as presumably the system is unable to continue processing.

Procedure

A short-term solution might consist of leaving off the EXCLUDING for the current SET PF-STATUS...

Clear up the interface affected: in the Menu Painter (Transaction SE41), choose Utilities -> Unused objects.

If it is an interface with a large number of statuses, it may be possible to take the interface apart. This is often possible for interfaces belonging to a function group that supplies GUI statuses for multiple programs (these programs call up function modules of the group that mainly contain a SET PF-STATUS command).

If the above solutions will not work, your system administrator will have to enlarge the profile parameter "ztta/cua_area". Note that profile parameter "ztta/short_area" must be at least 6 times as large as "ztta/cua_area".

History
Last changed on/by 20140121  SAP 
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