Tip - Retrieve Deleted ABAP Program

Problem

Sometimes crazy things happen. People just delete the program assuming it is no longer required. Few days later, the same program is needed. But it doesn’t exist anymore. 

Solution

Create a program with the same name as it existed before. Once the program is created, we can go into version history. The previous program version still exists. So we can retrieve that version, activate and transport using a new transport request.