SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP 7

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SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP 7.5
Overview and Product Highlights
SAP Technology Platform Product Management, SAP SE
December, 2022
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Agenda
Overview
Product Highlights
Summary
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ABAP Platform Today
Customers and main assets
41,200 Productive ERP 6.0 systems (NW 7x)
Business Suite,
Business Warehouse,
8,020 Productive ERP systems on new EhP 7 ( NW 74x)
Partner,
16,400 Productive BW systems
Custom Code,
…
370 Partner add-ons
Custom ABAP dev. objects per customer system
10,000
SAP NW / ABAP Platform
Registered modifications in SAP code
5.1 million
Database
Registered ABAP developer
4.5 million
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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ABAP Platform for SAP S/4HANA
Transformation and role
SAP S/4HANA,
on-premise
edition
Classic Suite Suite
NW / ABAP Platform
on Any DB on SAP HANA
SAP HANA SAP HANA
Real Time Simplified
SAP Fiori
Cloud
SAP S/4HANA,
NW / ABAP Platform NW / ABAP Platform
cloud edition
Any DB SAP HANA
NW / ABAP Platform
SAP HANA
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SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP 7.5
One common foundation for SAP Business Suite and S/4HANA, on-premise edition
Some facts about the AS ABAP 7.5
 Generally available since October 20th, 2015 SAP Suite SAP S/4HANA,
on Any DB / on-premise
 Compatible successor of AS ABAP 7.4
Suite on HANA edition
 Runs on innovation kernel 7.45
 Unicode systems support only
 Supports SAP HANA and other classical databases
SAP NW AS ABAP 7.5 SAP NW AS ABAP 7.5
Continuous innovations without disruption
 Big Data, SAP HANA, SAP Fiori, cloud, and mobile
Any DB SAP HANA SAP HANA
Makes it easy to exploit SAP HANA and build
SAP Fiori business apps
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SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP 7.5
Highlights at a glance
New ABAP language features for more simple and concise code
ABAP application development further optimized for SAP HANA
Increased coverage of SQL standard
Efficient programming model for SAP Fiori applications
Industry 4.0 and big data scenarios support
Increased developer efficiency in Eclipse
Tool support for migration to SAP S/4HANA
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ABAP Language
More simple and concise source code
ABAP Language
Declarative and functional modernization as of ABAP 7.4
Extensively expression-oriented ABAP syntax Inline declaration
Old: data y type return_type_of_m,
 Inline declarations and type inference
x = oref->m( ).
 New constructor expressions (NEW, REF, CAST, …)
New: data(x) = oref->m( ).
 Table comprehensions and table line selections
Constructor expressions
 Powerful operations for internal tables such as
Old: create object oref type c01 exporting p1 = 17.
CORRESPONDING() operator, grouping and filtering
New: oref = new c01( 17 ).
Internal table expressions
Enhanced ABAP Objects
Old: read table itab into wa index 1.
 Formal parameters allowed in functional methods read table itab into wa with key a= 1 b= 2.
New: wa = itab[ 1 ].
 Predicative call for functional methods
wa = itab[ a = 1 b= 2 ].
 Partial implementation of interfaces now supported
Internal table functions
JSON support in sXML-Library and inline code IF line_exists( itab[ <expression> ] ).
…
documentation with ABAP Doc
ENDIF.
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ABAP Language
Release 7.50 features overview
New built-in data type int8
 8-byte integers with signs
 Supported in ABAP dictionary and core platform frameworks
 Enables SAP BW to manage large data sets
Further expression enablement
 Enhanced type inference in constructor expressions
 Object component selector after table expressions
Dynamic component assignment
 Between structures or internal tables
 With dynamically specified mapping rules
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