SAP ABAP Table PTAB (Internal Pointer Table) is used by

• Function Module (29)
• Program (8)

#	Object Type	Object Name	Object Description	Package	Structure Package	Software Component
1	Function Module	ATTRIBUTE_DELETE_INDEX VALUE(POINTER) LIKE PTAB-POINTER	Delete indexes entered for attributes	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
2	Function Module	ATTRIBUTE_MAINTAIN_INDEX VALUE(POINTER) LIKE PTAB-POINTER	Set up attribute indexes	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
3	Function Module	DOCUMENT_DELETE_INDEX	Delete indexes for a document	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
4	Function Module	DOCUMENT_DELETE_INDEX_IN_UPD	Delete indexes for a document in update program	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
5	Function Module	DOCUMENT_MAINTAIN_INDEX	Index a document	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
6	Function Module	DOCUMENT_MAINTAIN_INDEX_IN_UPD	Index a document in update program	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
7	Function Module	DOCUMENT_RETRIEVAL_BATCH	Retrieval (free word and attributes)	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
8	Function Module	DOCUMENT_RETRIEVAL_DIALOG	Retrieval (free word and attributes) with search term entry	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
9	Function Module	DOCUMENT_RETRIEVAL_ON_QRY	Start a search from stored search request	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
10	Function Module	FREEWORD_DELETE_INDEX VALUE(POINTER) LIKE PTAB-POINTER	Deleting the entered indices for a text	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
11	Function Module	FREEWORD_MAINTAIN_INDEX VALUE(POINTER) LIKE PTAB-POINTER	Structure of the free word index	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
12	Function Module	MAINTAIN_INDEX_IN_UPDATE_TASK VALUE(POINTER) LIKE PTAB-POINTER	Indexing module for the update program	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
13	Function Module	PIC05_MATERIAL_PIC_CHECKS IT_PTAB STRUCTURE PTAB	Perform PIC consistency checks from Material master maintenance	ISAUTO_PIC	DIMP	ECC-DIMP
14	Function Module	SF_ATTRIBUTE_RETRIEVAL	Retrieve via attributes	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
15	Function Module	SF_ATTRIBUTE_RETRIEVAL HIT_TABLE STRUCTURE PTAB	Retrieve via attributes	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
16	Function Module	SF_FREEWORD_RETRIEVAL HIT_TABLE STRUCTURE PTAB	Retrieve via texts (free word using an INDEX file)	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
17	Function Module	SF_POINTER_CUT VALUE(POINTER) LIKE PTAB-POINTER	Delete a pointer from management	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
18	Function Module	SF_POINTER_DELETE_FROM_FILE VALUE(PTER) LIKE PTAB-POINTER	Delete a pointer from a specified data record	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
19	Function Module	SF_POINTER_EXPORT_TO_FILE VALUE(PTER) LIKE PTAB-POINTER	Export the first pointer	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
20	Function Module	SF_POINTER_GENERATE VALUE(POINTER) LIKE PTAB-POINTER	Assign a pointer for a document	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
21	Function Module	SF_POINTER_GET VALUE(POINTER) LIKE PTAB-POINTER	Read pointer for a document	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
22	Function Module	SF_POINTER_INSERT_INTO_FILE VALUE(PTER) LIKE PTAB-POINTER	Insert a pointer into a specified data record	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
23	Function Module	SF_POINTER_RETURN POINTER_TABLE STRUCTURE PTAB	Return pointers to calling program	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
24	Function Module	SF_POINTER_RETURN	Return pointers to calling program	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
25	Function Module	SF_POINTER_SET_FOR_REFINING	Transfer pointers to refinement	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
26	Function Module	SF_POINTER_SET_FOR_REFINING POINTER_TABLE STRUCTURE PTAB	Transfer pointers to refinement	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
27	Function Module	SF_SO_DOCUMENT_RETRIEVAL_BATCH	Retrieve (free word and attributes) for srch interfaces w/o user interface	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
28	Function Module	SF_TITLE_CHECK POINTERTAB STRUCTURE PTAB	Comparison of search terms with a text title	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS
29	Function Module	SF_TITLE_CHECK	Comparison of search terms with a text title	SFIN	BASIS	SAP_BASIS