SAP BW 7.3 ABAP Support Packages - News

SAP BWNews Notes

Check out the listed SAP BWNews notes to see which notes are delivered with the according Support Package.

What comes with the Support Packages?

Support Package 11

• Investigate the release notes for the Support Package 11  and find there the desriptions of the deliverered enhancements:  (Logon to SAP Help Library is required)
• In summary SP 11 is providing:
  • IMPLEMENTING CHARACTERISTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND DATA SLICES ON THE SAP HANA DATABASE 
    In the context of BW-integrated planning, you can define the permitted combinations of characteristic values (in the form of characteristic relationships) and create data slices for the selected data that you want to protect. If the generic types of characteristic relationships (attribute, hierarchy, DataStore) and data slices (selection) do not meet specific customer requirements, you can implement characteristic relationships and data slices of type Exit.
    • ABAP Exit Implementation
      The typical ABAP exit implementation of these examples is direct, with the external data being read from the database using SQL commands from the ABAP runtime and - taking into account further information such as user name (sy-uname) - checking, deriving or creating records in the corresponding structure.
    • Implementation on the SAP HANA Database
      In BW, you can perform planning using internal database routines. In the SAP HANA database, you can perform SAP HANA-optimized planning. If you are using the Planning Applications Kit, we recommend also implementing the customer-specific exist functionality for characteristic relationships directly in the SAP HANA database using SQLScript.

• Enhancements in area: REPLICATION OF DATASOURCES
  You can make a number of settings that affect how replication is performed. These allow you to define which DataSources are replicated, thus speeding up the replication process. For the replication of DataSources at the source system level or in an application component, you can make the following settings:
  • You can define the extent of the replication (active and/or delivery version).
  • You can define whether DataSources that are not known yet in the BW system should be created there and, which object type they should be created in.
  • You can define whether DataSources that do not exist any more in the source system should be created in the BW system.
  • You can define when and how DataSources that had already been activated prior to replication should be reactivated.
• Enhancements in area: TRANSFERRING DATA USING OPERATIONAL DATA PROVISIONING
  Using the operational data provisioning (ODP) framework, you can transfer InfoProviders from BW systems (source BW systems in release SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SPS05 and higher) to your BW system. When creating the ODP source system, you can use the ODP context “BW - SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse”.

Support Package 10

• For detailed information read the release notes for the Support Package 10.
• Learn here about the enhancements in DataStore Objects in SAP BW 7.30 on SAP HANA delivered with SP 10. 

Support Package 9

• Please see the according  release notes for Support Package 9 
• Support Package 9 is providing the SAP BW Near Line Storage solution (NLS) based on Sybase IQ.
• This solution helps to reduce TCO by reducing data volume in SAP BW, shortens backup time frames, provides high speed analysis for NLS residing historical information and is a SAP owned solution out of one hand.
• For the SAP recommendation of notes on top of SAP Netweaver SP09 when your system is running on HANA DB see note 1846493

Support Package 8

For detailed information read the release notes for the Support Package 8.
In summary the SP 8 is providing:

• SAP HANA specific features:
  • Performance boost for data loading, query  response time and In-memory planning
  • SAP HANA-optimized InfoCubes and Data Store Objects
  • Simplified and faster data modeling/remodeling
  • “Not active” data concept
  • SAP BW and SAP HANA Mixed Scenarios (BO Explorer, BW Virtual Master Data, etc.)
  • Support of Semantic Partitioned Objects and enhanced partitioning for write optimized DSOs
  • Simplified system landscape
• Platform independent highlights
  • Graphical data flow modeling and enhanced support of 3.x-> 7.x data flow migration
  • Semantic Partitioned Objects (SPO)
  • Rapid prototyping of Ad Hoc scenarios via BW Workspaces
  • File download of BW meta data
  • DSO planning
  • Tighter integration with SAP Data Services

For details read the presentation Support Package 8 for SAP BW on SAP HANA-Overview

For the SAP recommendation of notes on top of SAP Netweaver SP08 when your system is running on HANA DB see note 1769670 - Important Notes for SAP BW powered by HANA on SP8.

The presentation SAP NetWeaver 7.30 SPS8 - Planning on DSO shows the new planning on DataStore objects comming with SPS 8 for SAPNetWeaver 7.3

Support Package 7

Investigate the release notes for Support Package 7 and find there the desriptions of the deliverered fixes and enhancements:

• Find out about the enhancements for SAP HANA optimization and the Data Warehouse Management. Further more you can read about the enhancements of the Analytic Engine in the OLAP Cache Monitor and for creation of CompositeProviders. For the BW Workspaces some handy improvements have been developed as well.

Check out all release notes for detailed information on SAP 7.3 SPS. (Logon to SAP Help Library is required)

Generell Information

• SAP always recommends to apply the latest Support Package
• For all SAP BW 7.3 powered by SAP HANA Ramp up customers it is strongly recommended to implement SP06. For detailed information please have a look at note 1657994. SAP also recommends to apply the latest available SAP HANA revision.
• The release dates for the Support Package Stacks can be found in the Support Package Stack Schedule (SMP login required).
• Please see the SAP NetWeaver 7.3 Support Package Stack page (SMP login required). This page is the central point of information for planning the implementation of Support Package Stacks (SP Stacks) for SAP NetWeaver 7.0.
• For regular updates please subscribe to the notes above as follows: You need to display the note on the service marketplace page. Use the direct links above or use SAP notes search and enter the note number directly. To subscribe to this special note activate the "subscribe" button (left hand above the title line of the note page). Also make sure that your E-Mail notification is activated (for activation see note 487366).
• Importing Support Packages: Please note that after implementing a Support Package, you are usually required to perform additional maintenance in transaction SNOTE. SAP Notes that are already installed may become inconsistent. This can lead to function errors or syntax errors. Go to transaction SNOTE and reimplement the SAP Notes that are no longer consistent. Your BW system is only operable and consistent after you have reimplemented these SAP Notes.