SAP BW 7.31 ABAP Support Packages

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Release Notes for the SAP NetWeaver 7.31 Support Package Stacks

Check out the release notes for detailed information on SAP NW 7.31 SPS. (Logon to SAP Help Library is required)

News

•   Support Package 9: (Logon to SAP Help Library is required)

  • The SAP HANA-optimized DataStore object is now obsolete. See documentation

  • The integration of SAP BW and the SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (SAP LT Replication Server) allows real-time replication of data in BW and provides two options: You can use the SAP LT Replication Server for delta procedures for tables that do not contain any fields that are capable of producing delta figures. This makes it possible to use delta procedures for extractors that do not have delta logic.

    The trigger-based replication approach allows you to significantly reduce the administrative load if you have frequent master data updates.

    For futher information see "Data Transfer with SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (New)"

  • A planning function type is a procedure that can be parameterized and that change transaction data in BW Integrated Planning and in the Planning Application Kit. You can also implement customer-specific planning function types, in order to implement specific procedures and apply them to transaction data.

    • If you implement an SQLScript procedure, you can run a customer-specific planning function type optimized on the SAP HANA database. For futher information see "Implementing Business Logic for Planning Function Types on the SAP HANA Database (New)"

    • If you want to reuse a customer-specific planning function type and you only want to make slight modifications, you can copy the function type and modify it as required. This process is often quicker than creating all the parameters again as new parameters. For futher information see Copying Planning Functions (New)

  •   Details on Logging Saved Values (Enhanced)

• Support Package 8: (Logon to SAP Help Library is required)

  • Data Transfer with SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (New)

    The integration of SAP BW and the SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (SAP LT Replication Server) allows real-time replication of data from non-SAP sources and SAP sources to and provides the following options:

    You can use the SAP LT Replication Server for delta procedures for tables that do not contain any fields that are capable of producing delta figures. This makes it possible to use delta procedures for extractors that do not have delta logic.

    The trigger-based replication approach allows you to significantly reduce the administrative load if you have frequent master data updates.

    Note that complex extractors should generally not be replaced by replication with the SAP LT Replication Server.
    
    Learn more about the present possibilities to achieve real-time replication into SAP BW 7.30 powered by SAP HANA and read the presentation "Real-time Data Warehousing with SAP LT Replication Server (SLT) for SAP NetWeaver BW" by Marc Hartz.

• SAP HANA-Optimized DataStore Object: With the next Support Package, or when SAP Note 1849497 is implemented, SAP HANA-optimized activation will be performed for all standard DataStore objects. Conversion of DataStore Objects to SAP HANA-optimized objects will then be obsolete. This conversion will no longer be necessary, since all standard DataStore objects will be optimized for SAP HANA automatically. You can still use existing SAP HANA-optimized DataStore objects, but there will also be a new transaction for reconversion. Related Information.

• Enhanced ODP Source System:  For sources that offer Operational Data Providers (ODP) hierarchically, you can now select the ODP via the source hierarchy in DataSource maintenance. You can select ODPs for SAP HANA for example via the package hierarchy.You can now change the field names for the DataSource in the Proposal tab. If you do not make any changes to the field names, these are adapted automatically as before if they are not suitable as PSA field names.

• Support Package 7: (Logon to SAP Help Library is required)
  • The structure of the documentation is enhanced.Some topics were bundeled others expanded and revised to make the documentation structure more clearly represented.See details.
  • The tool for editing the runtime parameters for DataStore objects has been revised and enhanced. It is now more user-friendly and offers users the option of changing the settings for MPP databases and the SAP HANA database.

  • The data flow documentation now contains more details about data transfer processes. Information has been added about the fields used in the filter and the key fields in the error stack: Saving Data Flow Documentation as an HTML File

  • Sybase IQ as a Near-Line Storage Solution 
    The adapter for Sybase IQ as a near-line solution is delivered with the BW system. Integration of Sybase IQ makes it possible for you to separate data that you access frequently from data that you access rarely, thus making less demands on the resources in the BW system. The near-line data is stored in compressed form and needs to be backed up less frequently. You can thus reduce the costs incurred by data that is accessed less frequently.

• Support Package 6: (Logon to SAP Help Library is required)

• SP6 introduces the concept for handling Inactive Data with SAP HANA Database:
  To optimize the use of the main memory in SAP HANA, we introduced the concept of inactive data in the BW system. Optimization is supported as of SAP HANA Support Package 5. Implementing this concept results in higher priority displacement of data from Persistent Staging Area tables and from tables of write-optimized DataStore objects from the main memory, in the event of main memory bottlenecks. This has a positive effect on hardware sizing when dealing with a large quantity of inactive data of these object types.
• SAP HANA-Optimized DataStore Object: Change Log Compression
  As of SAP HANA Revision 38, you have the option of having a change log created for every activated record in SAP HANA-optimized DataStore objects.

• 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 7.31 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 7.31.
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