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SAP has delivered the version 2024.8 of SAP Datasphere. Please note if I’m not mistaking that version/wave 2024.7 has been skipped.

There are 4 Administration, 3 Data Integration, 2 Data Marketplace, 1 Data Modeling and 1 General enhancements in version 2024.8 of SAP Datasphere.

Administration

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1 You can now control the duration of the token and refresh token lifetimes for your OAuth clients. Create OAuth2.0 Clients to Authenticate Against SAP Datasphere

Token Lifetime: Minimum of 60 seconds to a maximum of one day. Default 60 minutes.

Refresh Token Lifetime: Minimum of 60 seconds to a maximum of 180 days. Default 30 days.

Note: @Thibault_dockx has posted a question: Unable to connect to Datasphere using the CLI There might be an issue regarding this enhancement.

2 In Tenant Configuration, the block size of compute blocks and storage blocks have been reduced to offer you more granular control over your tenant configuration. Performance classes have been added to allow you to choose the vCPU allocation to your tenant. Configure the Size of Your SAP Datasphere Tenant

Available Performance Classes, determines the number of vCPUs allocated to your tenant.

Memory
Compute
High-Memory
High-Compute

3 You can now assign yourself to a scoped role. Create a Scoped Role to Assign Privileges to Users in Spaces, Assign Users to a Role and Control User Access to Your Space

It’s handy and practical feature as long as you have DW Administrator role.

4 In Tenant Configuration, you may now increase the size of data lake storage in increments of 1 TB instead of 5 TB. Configure the Size of Your SAP Datasphere Tenant.

You can specify from 0 TB (minimum) to 90 TB (maximum), by increments of 1 TB.

Data Integration

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1 You can now use Confluent Kafka and the corresponding connection type to add targets to replication flows. Using Confluent Kafka As the Target, Integrating Data via Connections and Confluent Connections

SAP Datasphere — Integrating Data via Connections

2 In Views monitor, you can now see all views that have been created in the Data Builder without additional actions from your side. Views are displayed into 3 tabs to allow a better navigation:

All Views: It displays all the deployed views that have been created in the Data Builder for the current space.
Scheduled (default): It displays the views for which a schedule is defined to persist the data.
Persisted: It displays the views already persisted.

Persisting and Monitoring Views

3 Replication flows can now be scheduled and included in task chains if all their objects have load type Initial Only. Schedule a Data Integration Task (Simple Schedule) and Creating a Task Chain

You can schedule or un-schedule data integration tasks such:

Remote Data Replication
Data Persistence
Data Flow
Replication Flow — *if all objects in the flow have load type Initial Only
Task Chains

Data Marketplace

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1 Use the Catena-X Access Policy context to create a private offering within the Catena-X network. Context Management App

More information about Catena-X automotive network.

2 You can now manage Data Marketplace licenses, releases, and contexts using the command line (CLI):

Data Modeling

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1 The improved Select Object dialog provides new filtering options to help you quickly find your required object when creating associations and doing other tasks that require you to select an object from your space. This new dialog is available when creating an association, a text association, applying a data access control, and adding related entities to an E/R model diagram.

General

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1 As from wave 2024.08 all SAP Datasphere guides can be commented directly from the Help Portal: the Feedback button becomes visible in the action bar once you are logged in. Open Documentation Initiative for SAP Datasphere: Provide Feedback and Help us Improve the Documenta...

If you would like to contribute Open Documentation for SAP Datasphere and provide feedback directly from Help Portal. Try: