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SAP HANA Product Management

(Delta from SPS 07 to SPS 08)

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SAP HANA SPS 08Feature Overview

Modeling Enhancements

Enhanced SAP HANA Modeling capabilities

Variable/Input Parameter mapping to external views for value help

Data types specifications - allow decimal/float type without specifying

length and scale

Currency conversion - support to specify the target data type also for

base measures / configurable currency columns

Sorting support within of parent/child hierarchies

Set default schema mapping at package level

Mass-copy to allow sub-packages to be selected

Show productive system alert for edit/update/delete activities

Introducing performance analysis capabilities (partitioned tables, number of rows)

Support for Unicode characters in view/column/ names

UI and usability enhancements (new tree map control in union view, join icons, )

BW connections enhancements

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SAP HANA SPS 08 - Modeling Enhancements

Value Help ViewsVariable and Input Parameter Mappin

Parameter passing to external views for value help

Variables and Input Parameter can be mapped to variables and

input parameters from external views

Allows filtering and customizing value help lists from external views

Supported with Analytic- and Calculation Views (Graphical and Script)

Manage Mapping dialog

Directly enabled in variable/input parameter creation dialog

Supports mapping source differentiation

via Select Type

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Numeric data type handling enhancements

Relaxed FLOAT and DECIMAL data type specifications

DECIMAL data types can be specified without mandating length and scale

Internally treated as floating-point decimal with varying length and scale,length is derived from values at runtime

FLOAT data type can be specified without mandating length

Internally treated as 64-bit double data type

Relaxed data type specification supported with

calculated columns dialog,

input parameters for direct and static type, variables

union-node constants

procedures and script-based calc views

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SAP HANA SPS 08 - Modeling Enhancements

Naming conventions enhancements

Support for Unicode characters in names

Unicode characters can now be used in view names, column

names, input parameters, variables, hierarchies, calculation view

node-names, etc.

Field Name Preferences allows controlthe use of unicode characters

List of restricted characters are not allowed

\ / : * ? < > |. ; $ % , ! # + and space

For restricted measures and hierarchies use of slashes(/) asbeginning characters is allowed

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Currency conversion enhancements

Data Type for measures with currency conversions

Data Type and precision for the conversion values can be specified

independent from the input data

The inherited data type and precision may have too genericprecision definition resulting in rounding errors after the

conversion.

This allows to specify sufficient precision during conversion

Only numerical data types with decimal places are allowed

Supported for base measures, not with calculated measures

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Hierarchy enhancements

Ordering in Parent/Child Hierarchies

Order By columns can be specified

Previously parent-child hierarchies were ordered accordingto the leaf nodes in the child column and from that the

natural ordering of their ancestors follows accordingly.

Now, on the advanced tab of the parent child hierarchydialog we allow specifying sort attributes with the sort

direction.

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Introducing performance analysis capabilities

Performance Analysis Mode in Modeling Environment

Introduction of performance analysis hints and indicators inside

the HANA Model Editor

Manually switched on or defaulted switched on

Hints and indicators about table partitioning andnumber of rows (threshold as preference)

Scenario indicators for

partitioned tables (icon)

and

exceeded row thresholds

Switching on

performance analysis

mode

View details pane: indication about partitioning

type by icon (hash, range, )

Performance analys

count information.

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SAP HANA SPS 08 - Modeling Enhancements

Calculation View Union Modeling Enhancements

Union Modeling Enhancements

New graphical tree-map control for unions

Higher performance and usability when handling largestructures with the union-node

Scrolling, selecting, removing etc. are much faster

Query behavior for constant mapping columns

A Empty Union Behavior flag allows to determine ifqueries on constant value columns shall return values,

e.g. for value help queries in applications

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Managing Model Content Enhancements

Mass Copy Enhancements

Allows copying of content into sub-packages / multiple

packages as target package

Package Mapping configurations can be stored independent

from system tables "_SYS_BI"."M_CONTENT_MAPPING"

Can now be stored in developers local eclipse workspace

Warning issued if switched back to system tables

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Managing Schema Mapping Enhancements

Define specific default schemas

Schema content may derive from multiple / different back-end or

authoring environments

In order to ease managing of schema mapping in such scenarios,

package-specific schema mapping (which override the default schema

mapping) can be maintained in_SYS_BI.M_Package_Default_Schema

Has to be maintained manually (SQL)

mapping with package specific default schema

Additionally, the schema-property of a catalog editor in the modeleditors is editable (combo-box dialog)

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Model Editor User Interface Enhancements

Miscellaneous user interface enhancements

Color schema harmonization and shading selected node

Column icon use across model

Show complete editor palette

Matching join and union icons across all editors

Filter Tooltip in Details panel

show filter expression on hover over in details pane

(same as scenario panel)

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Production Alert and BW connection enhancements

Miscellaneous alert and configuration enhancements

Production System Alert

Editing, deletion, object activation, actions issued on systems asProduction Systems (HANA system configuration) will issue a visual

alter (indicator) or extra pop-up

BW connection configuration enhancements

SAProuter String for BW-Modelsinput connection

Java connection encryption betweenHANA Studio and BW back-end

(requires client crpyto libs installed)

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Modeling ProductivityError Handling/HANA Answers

Extended Error Handling with SAP HANA Answers (www.answers.saphana.com

In extension to documentation and help, SAP HANA Answers.com will be introduced to

as crawl source of information

E.g. adds information from SCN and others

Displays embedded in HANA Studio or outside

Integrated with HANA Studio views (job log, ),editors, wizards. Called via key from selected text

or feature.

Independent feature to install

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How to find SAP HANA documentation on this topic?

SAP HANA Platform documentation

Whats New Release Notes Modeling

SAP HANA Modeling Guide

Development

SAP HANA Developer Guide

References

SAP HANA SQL Reference

In addition to this learning material, you find SAP HANA documentation onSAP Help Portal knowledge center at

http://help.sap.com/hana_platform.

The knowledge center is structured according to the product lifecycle:installation > security > administration > modeling > development.

So you can find e.g. the SAP HANA Mo del ing Guide

in the modeling section and so forth

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