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SAP ABAP Road Map Webcast Recap with #ASUG Survey Request
Most of the ABAP sessions I attended in Las Vegas were packed and it was not easy to take notes. Fortunately SAP’s Carine Tchoutouo Djomo repeated this as a webcast
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ABAP is important
Over 100K productive systems are running
1809 release in September
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Fiori is chosen UI application; important to optimize ABAP back end of application
AMDP – native HANA features into ABAP application – lifecycle management
ABAP in Eclipse for efficient development; strategic platform for ABAP development to modernize the ways ABAP is developed and a more declarative language
Cloud is important in ABAP world
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One common codeline for on-premise and cloud
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Business suite with installed base have high requirements
Goal: no disruption
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SAP codeline split; the way forward
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Offering in SAP Cloud Platform environment
Offering ABAP as a programming language in SCP
Can use ABAP in Eclipse; programmer can take their knowledge to the cloud; cloud-optimized – git is used for code exchange, version management, transport mechanism
ABAP Restful programming model
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Some of this released a few weeks ago
752 continues with previous release strategy; a modern ABAP language, more declarative
Database centric – HANA centric – 740 – new data modeling infrastructure with Core Data Services
OpenSQL – enhance feature scope, expressions, functions
752 – support HANA 2.0
ABAP daemons – monitor ABAP sessions in the backend; react to different types of errors and handle real-time events
Toolings in quality assurance – ABAP Test Cockpit – quality, performance, security (ATC) – improved code coverage
ATC supports remote code analysis
Extensibility – for S/4HANA cloud and on-premise – extend existing applications on predefined customer exits; in cloud you don’t have full control of application
Planned innovations – delivered 1809 in end of September; many features are covered in planned innovations – enhanced CDS in AMDP
Define parent-child relation in hierarchy
An evolution of programming model AMDP in Fiori – delivered in ABAP in SCP, will find its way to on-premise
Analyze code based on usage data, graphical view of results
MQTT protocol is supported for machine to machine communication in area of ABAP channels
Extensibility – September 4th – ABAP in SCP
Product direction:
include innovations in S/4HANA
Business Suite – provide selected enhancements
Continuous adoption of capabilties
Eclipse native editors
SCP – new use cases – support partner extensions and in SAP app center
2020 product vision – no future with only ABAP, and no future without ABAP (B. Goerke quote)
Keep ABAP platform up to date
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ABAP in Eclipse is platform of choice
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ABAP optimizations for SAP HANA
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Core data services provides more advanced data views, enrich views with domain specifics, data models can be transactional/analytical applications – impossible before in SE11
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ABAP programming model, use core data services
OData in ABAP stack; provide semantics to build Fiori elements, a template based UI approach and can do freestyle development
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752 ABAP Daemons
1809 – MQTT protocols, version 3.1.1., machine to machine communications
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Tools to check custom code usage
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New Fiori application in 1809 as shown above
Create deletion transport to remove unused ABAP code
Need order by statement; when migrate can’t assure order
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ABAP Restful programming model – covers what not is covered in ABAP programming model – how integrate existing code into programming model?
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Thanks, for the write-up, Tammy!
Do you know if a recording of the webcast will become available to watch?
Cheers
Bärbel
Hello Bärbel - thank you for reading and commenting so quickly - recordings are posted here:
https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=449907482
(may require a logon)
Cheers
Tammy
Thanks for your quick response and for the link to the Wiki-page which I'm now watching (so login was not a showstopper!). Viewing a recording of a past webcast works, so this will become another source of information for me.
A lot to digest, but great info, thanks.
Nice summary Tammy!
Thanks & Kind regards,
Carine