ABAP for SAP HANA with Fiori

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Lets Get Started
ABAP for SAP HANA Fundamentals
ABAP Platform
Customers and main assets

Business Suite, 41,200 Productive ERP 6.0 systems (NW 7.x)

Business Warehouse, 8,020 Productive ERP systems on EhP 7 ( NW 7.4)
Partner,
Custom Code, 16,400 Productive BW systems
370 Partner add-ons
SAP NW / ABAP Platform 10,000 Custom ABAP dev. objects per customer system
5.1 million Registered modifications in SAP code
Database
4.5 million Registered ABAP developer

Rock solid and scalable server - Built for mission critical business systems
Effective programming environment - Built for the complete life cycle of business apps
Continuously extended - To serve new business scenarios

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SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP 7.40 / 7.50
The go-to release for all SAP HANA-based ABAP applications

Some facts about the ABAP 7.40 / 7.50 Custom Applications

Enhancement package compatible with ABAP 7.x Process

SAP Business Business
Portal Orchestra-
Underlying application server for SAP BW 7.40 / Suite Warehouse
tion
7.50 and SAP Business Suite powered by SAP
HANA and S/4 HANA ABAP Development Tools for SAP NetWeaver

Supports SAP HANA and other databases

SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.40/7.50
Includes optimizations for SAP HANA and
innovations independent of SAP HANA

Contains SAP NetWeaver Gateway and SAPUI5 SAP HANA Database Any DB
out-of-the-box

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ABAP 7.4 for HANA The essential ingredients

SAP HANA as a platform

More than just a database

Code-to-Data as new paradigm

Push data-intensive calculations to the database

Eclipse as an integrated development environment

ABAP Development Tools for SAP NetWeaver (ADT)

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Code-to-Data The new paradigm powered by SAP HANA

Code to Data (aka Code Pushdown): Delegation of data-intensive processing to the database layer

Calculation
AS ABAP

code
data
Data-to-Code Code-to-Data

SAP HANA Database

Calculation

Classic Approach New Approach

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Code-to-Data paradigm in ABAP powered by SAP HANA
Top-down approach ( AS ABAP 7.4 SP05)

Lifecycle Management
AS ABAP

Core Data Services ABAP Managed Standard ABAP

View Database Procedure Transport (CTS)

deploy deploy
SAP HANA

SAP HANA View Database Procedure

The recommended approach for ABAP development for SAP HANA

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Open SQL Code Pushdown starts Here

Broader coverage of SQL standard starting with ABAP 7.4

SQL-92 Standard
Code pushdown support thru rich set of new language
features and reduction of existing limitations Enhanced Open SQL+
( ABAP 7.5)
Like SQL functions, expressions, aggregate functions
Enhanced Open SQL
New modern Open SQL syntax ( ABAP 7.4)

Comma separated list elements

Escaped host variables (with @) Open SQL
Classic syntax still supported (before ABAP 7.4)

Consumptions of associations

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Open SQL More Expressiveness and Freedom

Open SQL expressions are evaluated by the database

Can be used at following positions
As element of the SELECT list or the GROUP BY list
As argument of a SQL (aggregate) function

Various types of expressions supported

Elementary expressions
String and arithmetic expressions
CASE, CAST and COALESCE expressions

Less restrictions
Enhanced JOIN support, Increased number of sub-queries,

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 Today
SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP
Core Data Services: Common basis for domain-specific frameworks

Reusable and unified view model Search

for all use cases
Access
Annotations enabling flexible Analytics
Control
usage in different contexts

Integration of SAP HANA native Core

features through seamless Data
interaction with AMDP Services Compatibility
OData view

Efficient development in Eclipse

Business
Extensibility
Logic

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 Example of ABAP Core Data Services Usage at SAP

Graph Representation of a Data Model using the Association as Edges

S/4Hana Development System[1]

Number of CDS Views: 6.359
Number of Associations 8.005
Lines of Code in CDS Views: 316.603

[1] on July 2015

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ABAP CDS Advanced View Building at a Glance

Semantically rich data models Domain-specific annotations

Domain specific languages (DDL, QL, DCL) e.g. for UI, Analytics, OData, BW, SADL
@AnalyticsDetails.aggregationBehaviour: SUM
Declarative, close to conceptual thinking @ObjectModel.modelCategory: #BUSINESS_OBJECT

Fully compatible with Any DB Associations

Generated and managed SQL views Simplified definition of views on top of views
Integrated in standard Lifecycle Mgmt Path expressions to navigate along relations

Built-in functions and expressions Extensible

e.g. sum( salesorder.gross_ammount ) On model level thru extensions
substring(bp.company_name,0,10) as name On meta-model level thru annotations

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ABAP CDS Built-in Functions and Expressions

Generic SQL Conversion Arithmetic Date and Time

String Functions
Expressions Functions Functions Functions

Simple- / Searched- Unit Conversion Concat Abs Days between

Case Currency Concat with Space Ceil Add Days
Coalesce Conversion Instr Div (Integer) Add Month
Cast Left / Right Division (Dec) Current Tmstp
Hex2Bin Length Floor Date is Valid
Bin2Hex Lpad / Rpad Mod Tmstp is Valid
Decimal Shift Ltrim / Rtrim Round Seconds btw.
Replace Tmstps
Add seconds

Aggregations (Count, Sum, Max, Min) not listed above

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 TM
ABAP CDS Development Environment in Eclipse

Integrated in the eclipse-based

ABAP Development Tools

Textual and graphical editors

Rich feature set for fast

development
Code completion
Enhanced data preview
Quick-Fix function
Syntax highlighting

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Code Breakouts for SAP HANA

Some scenarios require selective measures; aka Breakout

Scenarios
Highest performance requirements e.g. with complex calculations
Use of specialized engines and function libraries required
Open SQL and CDS views are not sufficient to solve problem

But!
Database-specific
Currently SAP HANA DB only
No automatic fallback for Any DB

Solution provided thru the ABAP Managed Database

Procedures (AMDP) framework

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AMDP Development & Lifecycle Management

ABAP classes as container for SQLScript source code

SQLScript source code editing in ABAP tools in eclipse

Static syntax check
Syntax and background highlighting

Fully integrated in the ABAP infrastructure Update

Exception handling via catchable and handleable exceptions screenshot
Support for runtime analysis in ST22 and debugging tools
Lifecycle management analog to regular ABAP classes
HANA artifacts solely managed by the ABAP server

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How can my custom ABAP code benefit from SAP HANA?
Recommended approach

1. How to detect adjustable ABAP code?

Functional and performance considerations
Detect
2. How to optimize ABAP code?
How to apply the code-to-data paradigm to ABAP code

3. Explore new opportunities

Optimize
How to integrate the powerful SAP HANA features in ABAP
Rethink & innovate
Explore

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The Data Model
Enterprise Procurement Model (EPM)

Business
Invoice Header Sales Order Header
Partner

Invoice Item
Sales Order Item

Product

More information can be found on SCN:

http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-31458
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Steps of todays CodeJam

1. ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse (ADT)

2. ABAP Test Cockpit & SQL Monitor (ATC & SQLM)
3. Core Data Services (CDS)
4. Open SQL (OSQL)
5. ABAP managed Database Procedures (AMDP)

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Last not least

Dwell on the things which are of interest for

Move at your own speed! It is not important
you. Try out things on your own and feel free
to complete all exercises.
to ask your questions.

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Lets Get Started
ABAP for SAP HANA