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Florian Wahl
August 23, 2022
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SAP BTP ABAP Environment –

Release 2208

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While many people are enjoying their well-deserved (summer) holidays, the
 Like release schedule of SAP BTP ABAP environment does not stand still, which is
why we just published the next SAP BTP ABAP environment release, version
2208. This one includes many exceptionally big feature deliveries such as event
 RSS Feed consumption and exposure, RAP Extensibility, SAP HANA NSE support, support
for OData streams and XLSX read access.

As always, the following condensed overview provides a quick insight into the
new features of this release.

For the full set of items and information please check out the official release
notes page.

Event Consumption and Exposure

The ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model (RAP) now supports the
native consumption and exposure of business events. For exposure, an event can
be defined and raised in a RAP business object or in the behavior extension and
then published via Event Bindings (details). The consumption is implemented via
an event consumption model which establishes an integration of ABAP
environment with the SAP Event Mesh service in SAP Business Technology
Platform (details).

RAP Extensibility

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To cater for use cases in which a consumer of a RAP application wants to adapt it
to their specific requirements, a stable and resilient extensibility concept is an
important prerequisite. The RAP framework now supports extensibility on
different levels in the data model including extensions for database tables, CDS
views, behavior definitions and service definitions (details).

Streams in RAP

The RAP framework now supports OData streams. As example, it is now possible
to integrate Large Objects (LOBs) into your RAP applications. This means that
you can, for example, upload and attach binary or text files when editing entity
instances (details).

HANA Native Storage Extension (NSE) Support

For custom tables, the SAP HANA Native Storage Extension is now available. By
specifying a load unit, you can define how the data of the tables is loaded into the
main memory of the SAP HANA database (details).

XLSX Read Access as part of XCO Library

The XCO library now offers a new module including abstractions and APIs which
can be used to programmatically work with XLSX workbooks and their
worksheets. Currently the main use case is to read data from the documents
(details).

ABAP Development Tools

Support for the Application Job Catalog Entry Editor which can be used to
create and edit application job catalog entries (details)
Support for the Application Job Template Editor to create and edit application
job templates (details)
Support for the new form-based Change Document Object editor (details)
Availability of the new API Catalog editor which displays the documentation of
API catalogs
Availability of the new Behavior Extension creation wizard which is used to
specify the behavior extension to be extended and if interface behavior
definitions exist
Enablement of the Element Information popup for authorization objects
Support for the Element Information popup of RAP types now showing
secondary keys

ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model

Support for the RAP Business Object test double framework offering different
options to configure the behavior of EML statement calls to the RAP BO
Support for the definition of business object interfaces to introduce an
additional abstraction layer between RAP BOs and their business projection
layer (details here and here)
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Support for the definition of actions and functions that can be executed
multiply on the same instance in the same request (details here and here)
Support for the option “WITH FULL DATA” for unmanaged/additional saves of
managed BOs (details)
Support for the analytics annotation “@AnalyticsDetails.variable” which can
be used to create any variable in the analytic query from a parameter (details)
Availability of a new RAP facade which can be used to start a workflow during
the save phase of a RAP BO

Administration

Availability of the new Horizon theme which can be selected by the

administrator or the business user (details here and here)
Support for notifications in SAP Fiori Launchpad for ABAP environment using
a new communication scenario (details)
Support for the usage of SAP Enable Now to create in-app help content for
custom applications or extend SAP-provided content (details here and here)
Support for the integration of custom themes created with SAP UI Theme
Designer in SAP Fiori Launchpad of the ABAP environment system

Continuous Integration & Delivery

Availability of a new piper step to create tags for a commit of software

components (details)
Support for adding multiple tags to a commit in the Manage Software
Components app (details)
Support for an automatic roll-back of failed software component clones on
production systems (details)
Support for a denial error message during a second software component
clone via the web API “MANAGE_GIT_REPOSITORY” if the same software
component has already been published
Support for Object Set Library in the ABAP Test Cockpit (ATC) service API
(details)

Integration & Security

Support for the consumption of asynchronous SOAP services and a

monitoring capability via Application Interface Framework (AIF) for respective
calls
Support for new integration scenarios covering the integration of change
documents for business users and business roles
Support for maintaining trusted hosts for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
(CORS)
Support for push and pull of HTTP service objects to and from an abapGit
repository
Availability of a newly designed UI in the Maintain Business Roles App to
maintain restrictions for business roles and to display all restrictions with

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filters
Availability of new business catalogs to grant read-only access to Identity and
Access Management apps as well as Communication Management apps for
development support cases
Support for viewing all business roles with default values from business
catalogs in the IAM Key Figures app

Reuse Services

Enhancements to the XCO Library in addition to the new XLSX module such as
support for transformations in the XCO Generation APIs, enablement of the
origin concept for the XCO Read APIs, support for the read out of transport
request attributes via the transport Read APIs and availability of a new
transport filter to query transports based on attributes (details)
Enhancements to the Maintain Job Users app including support for changing
owners and users of an application job as well as displaying the change history
and deleting application jobs (details)
Enablement of new features in the number range API including the definition
of the current number range level as well as the specification of a customizing
transport request for number range intervals
Availability of the Factory Calendar Pull Integration which is used to import
factory calendar customizing from on-premise systems

Hopefully this overview helps you to digest the pretty long list of new features.

Please let us know if you have questions.

Stay healthy and take care!

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