After almost 2 years and
few months passed after BW 7.3
was released new version 7.4 is coming. Finally SAP people had some time to
spend also on some other of their offerings except HANA :-) Unfortunately so far 7.4 is not providing any
new functionality outside of regards to HANA. According BW roadmap available here
focus also in future will be on HANA scenarios e.g. with connection to Business
Suite on HANA.
Following official information
resources are available on BW 7.4:
Positioning of SAP NW BW powered by
SAP HANA and SAP HANA Analytics Foundation
- 23/10/2013 Update –
SAP published a roadmap for NetWeaver BW 7.4 on SAP HANA. You can find it here. It covers Upcoming planned release / Future innovations of BW 7.4
- 09/05/2013 Update –
There is a one limitation
being in all BW’s version for long time. It is with regards to maximum length of
characteristic value. It has a limit of 60 characters. Well it had the limit.
As of BW release 7.4 SPS2 this limit is over. Up to 250 characters are now possible.
Technically this is implemented by extending domain RSCHAVL which was changed
from data type CHAR 60 to SSTRING (255 characters in length). Similarly text
for characteristic can have in BW 7.4 up to 1333 characters. This is done by
replacing structure RSTXTSML with RSTXTSMXL.
This is for first sight positive
news however it has some negative glance. Such a long data type is threated by
ABAP as so called "deep" type. Some of ABAP language statements cannot
deal with such a long types. Therefore it might happen that some of custom code
will defunct ending with runtime error.
You can use ABAP Test
Cockpit (Transaction ATC). ATC is successor of CheckMan tool.
This info is taken from SAP
Note 1823174 -
BW7.40 Changes and customer-specific programs.
- 23/10/2013 Update –
- 31/12/2015 Update –
More posts about SAP BW 74:
BW Modeling
Tools (for SAP HANA BW)
Changes to query
properties in BW 73 vs 74
BW 74:
Monitoring of process chain for mobile devices
BW 74: Master
data maintenance: web based environment
"Field-based" modeling in BW
- 18/12/2020 Update –
BW 7.4 is replaced by SAP Business Warehouse 7.5
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