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    ABAP News for Release 7.51

    This blog summarizes the blogs where I have introduced the most important ABAP language and ABAP CDS news for release 7.51. A very small picture of ABAP 7.51 can be seen in this blog, while the big picture is introduced in this article. The most im...

    ABAP News for Release 7.51 - Date and Time in ABAP CDS and Open SQL

    When pushing down code from the application server to the database, of course you want to keep all the amenities that you have taken for granted when programming in ABAP on the application server. One of these amenities were the date and time handlin...

    SAP NW AS ABAP 7.50 SP2 – Developer Edition to Download: Concise Installation Guide

    Download For general information, download link, operating system and hardware requirements see the Developer Edition to Download: Introduction page. Note: If you experience any problems when installing using this guide, please use the following deta...

    BOPF Sync Points

    This article describes the BOPF Synchronization Points functionality. Target audience is ABAP architects and developers, anyone who is strong in BOPF and wants to know something new. In addition to the main transactional functionality (like bufferin...

    Enhance the utility of the Custom Program to find out the Implementation of Function module exits and BADIs associated with a particular Transaction Code in Brownfield SAP Projects

    First of all, I would like to acknowledge and thank Shankar M, author of the following link:- https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/ABAP/To+find+out+User+Exit's+and+BADI's+for+Any+Transaction+code In my post here, I have elucidated the upgrade done o...

    Webinar: 30th November - How organizations are managing risks within a connected business world

    Join SAP and EY for a joint webinar entitled "How organizations are managing risks within a connected business world" at 9:00am GMT/10:00am CET on Wednesday 30th November 2016. Are you connected with your business partners across your value chain, e...

    Chrome 53 tests have been completed for NetWeaver, Business Suite and S/4HANA

    Chrome 53 has been tested by the SAP test teams with NetWeaver versions 7.02, 7.30, 7.31 and 7.40, Business Suite BS7i2015 and S/4HANA PSE – 1608. Details about Chrome 53 features can be found in the following link:http://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/c...

    Best Practices for Editing and Creating Content for Read Access Logging Delivered by SAP

    Context Content for read access logging (RAL) is delivered as part of support packages or new releases, either directly as part of SAP NetWeaver (SAP_BASIS, SAP_ABA) or from solutions. As the delivery class of the RAL tables is Customizing (“C”), co...

    ABAP News for Release 7.51 – Full Text Search in the ABAP Keyword Documentation

    In release 7.50, I introduced the full text search in the ABAP Keyword Documentation for ADT, aka the Web Version of the keyword documentation that you can also start with program ABAP_DOCU_WEB_VERSION. Soon after that, it became clear that selectin...

    ABAP News for Release 7.51 - New Structure for Export/Import Tables

    When using the EXPORT/IMPORT statements to write or read data clusters to and from database tables, shared memory or shared buffer, since eons you have to use a predefined data structure that was explained in the documentation and for which the good ...

    ABAP News for Release 7.51 - Common Table Expressions (CTE) in Open SQL

    When I mentioned CTEs one year ago, the reaction was that I'm "teasing". But well, here we are. The Open SQL boys are really a hard-working bunch. The wish was to have a SELECT ... FROM subquery in Open SQL. That's one thing, you can use CTEs for: ...

    ABAP News for Release 7.51 – Case Insensitive Search in SQL and Other New Functions

    Some time ago someone asked for upper and case insensitive searches in Open SQL and kilian.kilger answered  "Emulating ABAP’s UCS2 semantics on Any-DB isn’t exactly like celebrating a party ." Nevertheless, he's done it! With ABAP 7.51 you can write...

    How To Get Remote-Enable Function Modules Documentation in a Word Document with VBA and CCo

    Here an example how to get the documentation from remote-enabled function modules and to write it in a Word document. The solution is coded in VBA in Microsoft Word application and uses the COM Connector (CCo). It is possible to use a pattern for the...