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ABAP Dictionary in ABAP Release 7.54

1. New Built-In Data Types

2. Flagging of Obsolete Data in Check Tables

3. Dynamic Cached Views

Modification 1  

New Built-In Data Types

The following new built-in data types were introduced in ABAP Dictionary:

• Decimal floating point numbers
  • DECFLOAT16
  • DECFLOAT34
• Date fields, time fields, and time stamp fields
  • DATN
  • TIMN
  • UTCLONG
• Geodata types
  • GEOM_EWKB

These data types are currently only supported by SAP HANA databases. These types can be mapped to HANA-specific data types but not to other vendor-specific data types. ABAP-managed database objects where these types are used can only be created on SAP HANA databases.

Modification 2  

Flagging of Obsolete Data in Check Tables

A special column can be used to flag obsolete data in check tables. This flag modifies input checks and input help in dynpros and Web Dynpros.

This flag was ported back to all releases including ABAP release 7.40.

Modification 3  

Dynamic Cached Views

Dynamic cached views are a kind of HANA tuning object defined using the statement DEFINE DYNAMIC CACHE. A dynamic cache is a DDIC integration of an SAP HANA Dynamic Result Cache.