SAP BTP ABAP Environment - Release 2505
With the introduction of the new release 2505, this blog post presents a comprehensive overview of the latest features and enhancements. The release has been available since May 17th and serves as the successor to the 2502 release. Some highlights of the 2505 release include the reduction of the technical downtime for release upgrades, the quick Fiori app generation within ABAP Development Tools (ADT) and the AI-based RAP BO Generator.
The list of all new features can be found on the What's New for SAP BTP ABAP environment page.
All new AI features are summarized here.
ABAP Development Tools (ADT)
- Working with the log when migrating CDS DDIC-based views to CDS view entities, after finishing the simulation or migration of CDS DDIC-based views to CDS view entities, you can now filter the log on the result page using the Show Objects drop-down list box
- Restructuring the "Code Completion" and "Source Code Editors" preference pages
- RAP Business Objects Test Double Framework: Supported EML Statements
- Data preview now supports ‘between’ capabilities in the filter options
- Testing web API-based services using Swagger UI
- Creating SAP Fiori App using Quick Fiori Application Generator
- Improvements in the ABAP coverage view, new features: Changing the coverage scope and Exclude from coverage
- ADT Links can now be incorporated in the HTML result of an IDE action, allowing users to navigate to development objects in ADT
- ABAP SQL Consumption Model, you can it to generate corresponding CDS external entities for each entity that is exposed in a SQL service
- Creating and editing CDS table entities
Core Data Services (CDS)
- Improved CDS Buffering, optimize the ABAP memory consumption for scenarios which make use of CDS Entity Buffering
OData
- OData UI Service from Scratch, you can create all RAP-service related repository objects from scratch by using the OData UI Service from Scratch wizard (details)
- Null value handling, you can now find an overview of the differences in the behavior of null values and initial values in OData V2 and V4 with regard to sorting and filtering on the Fiori Elements UI as well as explicit filtering through OData Web API request (details)
Data Archiving
- Storage Manager Implementation, you can now use a new interface method to rollback faulty verified archive files (details)
Application Jobs
- New Skip Function, you can now skip a single execution of a periodic job chain in the Application Job Templates app (details)
Units of measurement
- You can now retrieve the standard units of measurement and dimensions delivered by SAP using released ABAP Cloud APIs (CL_UOM*) (details)
Business Configuration App
- New Email Configuration for the Upload Business Configuration App (details)
- Intent Navigation, if all technical key fields are provided as parameters to uniquely identify a record of an object page or subobject page, it's opened directly (details)
XCO Library
- XCO XSLX: You can now style the fonts of a cell of an Excel worksheet (details)
Print Queue Administrator Integration
- You can now create and delete print queues directly using APIs without the need to enter the Maintain Print Queues app, you can do so using the communication scenario SAP_COM_0A86 (details)
IAM Information System
- You can now display the relevant components for business catalogs and applications. This way you can check under which component you can create an incident if required (details)
Released APIs and software component relations
- You can now read about the best practices of using released APIs and software component relations on the SAP Help Portal (details)
Provider Support Role
- Include start authorizations for custom services in provider support role
Development Test Role
- The business catalog SAP_CORE_BC_EXT_TST for development test roles is now continuously extended, not only with the start authorizations for custom services, but also with full authorizations for any custom authorization object included in the authorization default values
Technical Monitoring
- Capture and download of PLV files in ABAP cross trace for SQL statement execution analysis (details)
Message Monitoring
- Message Monitoring for Integration Experts, you can now download the original payload of your message (details)
Custom Code Analysis
- 3-Tier Model ATC Checks, there are now two new ATC checks of category 3-Tier Model: "Usage of APIs" and "Allowed Enhancement Technologies" (details)
Landscape Portal
- Monitoring customers and products, the new Customer Overview app in the Landscape Portal enables partners to keep track of their customers and products (details)
SAP Fiori Launchpad
- Extend the Sort Priority Field in the Manage Launchpad Spaces App, you can now extend the sort priority field to +/- 9999.99999 (details)
- Avatars for Themes in the User Settings (details)
- Hide Empty Spaces and Pages in the SAP Fiori Launchpad (details)
SAPUI5
- Referenced SAPUI5 Version, as part of hotfix collection 3, SAPUI5 version 1.133.2 is used for the administrator’s SAP Fiori launchpad, SAP-delivered Fiori apps, and the custom-built SAP Fiori apps, which are deployed to the ABAP system (see upgrade windows and SAPUI5)
SAP HANA Cloud
- Increased SAP HANA Cloud Backup Retention Time to 30 Days (details)
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