How to generate the DDL source code for custom entities that are implemented by remote function calls

Introduction

SAP CP ABAP environment can serve as a platform to built side-by-side extensions for:

◈ SAP S/4HANA Cloud via OData
◈ SAP S/4HANA (on-Premises) via OData and RFC
◈ SAP Business Suite (on-Premises) via OData (using SAP Gateway) and RFC

Testing REST APIs in XSA Applications Without UI Layer

REST APIs are extremely useful for accessing and modifying data within XSA Multi-Target Applications. When it comes to checking whether the API you’ve designed is working properly or not, things becomes a little difficult if you are not familiar with web security protocols. In this blog, I am going to briefly describe OAuth 2.0, the security protocol used by XSA for user authentication and authorization (UAA), and cover details on how you can make HTTP requests to different modules within an XSA application.

C-create, R-read, U-update, D-delete OData Services Creation Using ABAP CDS Views

Introduction

This article describes the fastest way of OData Services creation using ABAP Core Data Services. Details on @OData.publish annotation utilization, reference to Data Source CDS-Entity and import from DDIC Structure are given. Create, Update and Delete actions are shown on the custom transparent table data just to simplify the article and do not move focus from OData Service creation to business process requirements implementation.

Troubleshooting ABAP Dumps in relation to SAP HANA

Purpose

The purpose of this document is to instruct SAP customers on how to analyse ABAP dumps.

Overview

How to troubleshoot ABAP Dumps

How fast is ABAP Core Data Service(CDS)?

How fast is ABAP Core Data Service (CDS)?  This is one of the frequent question raised by technical consultants after any ABAP CDS sessions. We can demonstrate speed of ABAP CDS through below simple approach, I have written same requirement in two different methodologies. Business requirement is to obtain the material number from MARA table and material description from MAKT table. Material number in final result should be without preceding zero’s.

New Data Modeling Features in SAP NW ABAP 7.4 SP5

The Challenge

With the availability of the SAP HANA platform there has been a paradigm shift in the way business applications are developed at SAP. The rule-of-thumb is simple: Do as much as you can in the database to get the best performance. This is also true for the underlying data models of the business applications.

Under the HANA hood of an ABAP Managed Database Procedure

I’ve been looking into ABAP managed database procedures for HANA recently and decided to take a look at what’s actually created under the hood in the HANA database when an AMDP is created.

I created a small test class in our CRM on HANA system with a method to read a couple of columns from the crmd_orderadm_h table using sqlscript. The method takes one input parameter IV_OBJECT_ID and has one export parameter ET_ORDER.

New ABAP for HANA features in SAP NW 7.4 SP5

With the newly released AS ABAP 7.4 SP5 we have deepened the interplay between the ABAP and SAP HANA and enhanced the capabilities of the ABAP for HANA development. Following the code to data paradigm we have focused on enabling you to innovate faster and better with ABAP for HANA.

So what is inside this release for ABAP on HANA developers?

SAP HANA ABAP: SQLScript Date/Time Functions

As we all know that in any reporting or data analysis system, the main objective is to convert the source data into the meaningful information which can be of business relevance. This is to facilitate the stake holders to take decisions effectively and efficiently.

If we break the above scenario to the HANA developer level, we need to have the knowledge on various functions available in SQLScript to develop a meaningful information for reporting and make our life easier as a developer.