New Features in SAP Release 6.20 

There are the following new features in SAP Web Application Server (SAP Web AS) Release 6.20:

·        BR*Tools now supports Oracle 9i.

·        RMAN backup without BACKINT:

¡        RMAN Backup with an External Backup Library

¡        SAP Note 420698

·        Update statistics for partitioned tables with BRCONNECT:

¡        Update Statistics with BRCONNECT

¡        SAP Note 424243

·        Update statistics for InfoCube tables with BRCONNECT:

¡        Update Statistics for InfoCube Tables

¡        SAP Note 428212

·        BRCONNECT support for Oracle monitoring in SAP Transaction RZ20:

¡        Monitoring the Oracle Database, especially Database Health Alerts

¡        SAP Note 483659

·        New command options and initialization profile parameters

¡        Command Options for BRCONNECT:

§         -o|-output: new option process

§         -f stats: new options -f nocasc and -v index_store|cascade_store

§         -f next: new option -f nocasc

¡        Initialization profile parameters:

§         check_exclude: new values non_sap and all_part

§         cleanup_check_msg

§         next_exclude: new value all_part

§         next_special: new value all_sel

§         stats_dbms_stats

§         stats_table: new value all_ind

¡        SAP Notes 419679, 424239, 445884, and 483639.

·        SAPDBA support for online reorganization of single tables

SAPDBA now supports online reorganization based on the Oracle internal PL/SQL functions.

·        SAPDBA support for LOB columns

SAPDBA now supports the reorganization of tables with all types of large object (LOB) columns. Large objects are recreated with the same physical characteristics as before the reorganization.