As follow-up to our previous release
2305, this blog post provides an update to our most recent release 2308, which is available for customers and partners since last weekend. The highlights of this release are data archiving capabilities, a customer data browser app, and enhancements to the Fiori Launchpad in ABAP Environment. Please enjoy my little overview of the most important features and their respective details.
Many thanks to
merveyalcin for her contributions to this blog post!
All available new features can be found on the
official release notes page.
Data Archiving
The new data archiving feature provides
data volume management capabilities for
customer-owned tables. It covers different steps of the archiving process like selection of data to be exported, the actual archiving process as well as deletion of archived data (
details).
Customer Data Browser
This new app can be used by customers to
view their owned business data via a
self-service. It provides various capabilities including viewing, filtering, and sorting data and adapting the views to specific needs. Additionally, data can be exported or it can be shared based on restricted user access (
details).
ABAP Fiori Launchpad
The Fiori Launchpad in ABAP Environment now appears in the
Horizon theme as default. Furthermore, it provides a new
navigation bar which allows business users to pin/unpin spaces and change their display order. A
color bar now shows the system ID and description.
ABAP Development Tools
- Support for migration of CDS DDIC-based views to CDS view entities (details)
- Support for templates when creating or editing CDS types (details)
- Support for CDS scalar functions (details)
- Support for export/import of application job catalog entries and an application job template to a Git repository using abapGit (details)
- Support for active/inactive versions of application job catalog entry and template (details)
- Support for VALUE statement formatting in the ABAP Formatter (details)
- Availability of new prerequisites for the setup of the ATC Check Run REST Service API (details)
- Support for migration of CDS based BO to RAP BO using the migration wizard (details)
ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model
- Support for transactional usage of WHERE clauses in CDS projection views
- Introduction of a new best practice to use strict(2) for all RAP BOs (details with list of exceptions)
- Support for service definitions of extensibility by defining respective provider contracts (details)
- Support for custom payload for existing RAP business events (details)
- Support for business events consumption in the same system as they are raised (details)
- Support for SAP Object Types to semantically relate and group development artifacts
- Enhancements to background processing by covering all required qualities (exactly once, in order etc.) and integration into the ADT cross trace, limited to monitoring capabilities (bgRFC monitoring) in the first version
- Support for payload verification of RAP business events (details)
Administration
- Support for display which scope items business catalogs depend on (details)
- Support for Check All action to run consistency check on all open customizing transport requests (details)
- Support for a Mass Change Wizard to maintain restrictions for multiple business roles (details)
- Enhancements to the Capture Request Statistics app including activation and deactivation of SQL tracing as well as direct navigation to the Technical Monitoring Cockpit (details)
- Enhancements to the UI of the Sampled Work Process Data screen in the Technical Monitoring Cockpit which makes it easier to identify bottleneck situations (details)
Continuous Integration & Delivery
- Support for the export of business user and business role groups from a quality to a productive system via customizing transports (details here & here)
- Availability of a new SAP Note that includes an updated list of called function modules during remote custom code analysis runs (details)
Integration & Security
- Support for a history in IAM apps, business catalogs, communication scenarios and restriction types including versioning and a comparison function
- Enhancements to the IAM Information System app including new filtering options (details)
- Support for technical user propagation with SAP Cloud Connector (details here & here)
Key User Extensibility
- Support for user interface adaptations which are tied to specific user roles (details)
Multitenancy and SaaS Applications
- Availability of the Maintain Solution app which guides the provider through the SaaS solution configuration process and allows execution and monitoring of the deployment (details)
- Availability of the Test Tenant app which can be used to view all available systems and create/manage test tenants (details)
Reuse Services
- Enhancements to the key features of the application job APIs (details)
- Support for archive change documents with their application documents (details)
- Enhancements to the Maintain Customizing Translations app including support for translation of UI runtime adaptations (details)
- Support for SAP Object (Node) Types to provide semantic grouping of released objects that can be used as central access point for development objects (details)
- Enhancements to the XCO Library (please refer to the release notes page)
System Hibernation
As part of a separate landscape update on August 28th, a new system hibernation feature has been enabled. This means that temporarily unused systems can now be stopped and started again afterwards. The start/stop mechanism can either be triggered manually or it can be scheduled for specific times. See more information in the
blog post.
Additional Information
You can find the (new) product page on
SAP BTP, ABAP Environment | SAP Help Portal
For the new documentation structure, see
Standalone Documentation. The new documentation page makes search and navigation for SAP BTP, ABAP environment topics easier.
See
SAP BTP, ABAP environment Roadmap for more details on the roadmap items.
As always, please let us know if you have questions.
Stay healthy and take care!
