SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse and SAP Business Explorer

This section describes all enhancements and changes for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW) and SAP Business Explorer (SAP BEx) for Support Package Stack 07.

Function	Type of Change	Description
DataStore Object	Enhanced	You can now also convert standard DataStore objects to SAP HANA-optimized objects. More information: Converting Standard DataStore Objects to SAP HANA-Optimized Objects
InfoProvider	Enhanced	A new InfoProvider has been added to the InfoProvider concept: the VirtualProvider based on an SAP HANA model. More information: Creating VirtualProviders Based on an SAP HANA Model
BW Workspace Administration	Enhanced	The following functions are new in BW Workspace Administration: You can now prevent Excel files from being uploaded in Workspace Designer. You can now use this setting centrally to make data backups obligatory for local providers of a BW workspace. More information: Maintaining Global BWA Index Settings You can now delete a workspace or alternatively just delete its content. More information: Tips for Editing Workspaces
BW Workspace Designer	Enhanced	The following functions are new in BW Workspace Designer: You can specify a field separator for CSV files. More information: Creating Local Providers: File as Source For local providers based on BEx queries, you can create variants directly in Workspace Designer or use variants created in BEx. More information: Creating Local Providers: BEx Query as Source When defining CompositeProviders for connection type Union, you can now define a constant. For standard queries, you can now use existing calculated and restricted key figures. In some cases, you can now select queries that are based on one of the use InfoProviders as referenced queries. More information: Creating CompositeProviders The methods AFTER_ACTIVATION_COPR and BEFORE_DELETION_COPR have been added to BAdl RSL_WORKSPACE_DESIGNER_BADI. More information: Enhancement Spot for BW Workspaces
CompositeProvider	Enhanced	There is now a new transaction that allows you to create CompositeProviders - capable of containing both analytic indexes and other InfoProviders - in the BW system outside of Workspace Designer. More information: Creating CompositeProviders
Operations in the BWA/SAP HANA Database	changed	Calculating the exception aggregation for a single key figure in BWA or on the SAP HANA database is now also possible for conversions before aggregation, but is no longer possible for quantity conversions. See Operations in BWA.

Function	Type of Change	Description
Data Archiving Process	Enhanced	You can now connect a near-line storage subsequently. More information: Subsequently Connecting Near-Line Storage
Analyzing Metadata with the Metadata Repository	Enhanced	By calling a web service, you can view your BW system's metadata in the web browser on any client (see Analyzing Metadata with the Metadata Repository). The procedure for finding the required URL parameters corresponds to the procedure described under Web Services and ICF Services in BW.

Function

Type of Change

Description

Data Archiving Process

Enhanced

You can now connect a near-line storage subsequently.

More information: Subsequently Connecting Near-Line Storage

Analyzing Metadata with the Metadata Repository

Enhanced

By calling a web service, you can view your BW system's metadata in the web browser on any client (see Analyzing Metadata with the Metadata Repository). The procedure for finding the required URL parameters corresponds to the procedure described under Web Services and ICF Services in BW.

Function	Type of Change	Description
OLAP Cache Monitor (RSRCACHE)	Enhanced	Cache mode Query Aggregate replaces cache modes 2-4. Apart from this cache mode, the "Main Memory Cache without Swapping (1)" cache mode is the only one still of relevance (see Cache Modes). To ensure compatibility however, it is still possible to switch between cache mode Query Aggregate (5) and the previous cache modes (see OLAP Cache Monitor). You can set cache administration parameters to improve performance when using the OLAP cache (see Cache Administration Parameters).
Constant Selection	Enhanced	The documentation for the Constant Selection property has been enhanced (see Constant Selection). The SAP DemoContent for Features now has example queries for constant selection (see Constant Selection in Examples).

Function

Type of Change

Description

OLAP Cache Monitor (RSRCACHE)

Enhanced

Cache mode Query Aggregate replaces cache modes 2-4. Apart from this cache mode, the "Main Memory Cache without Swapping (1)" cache mode is the only one still of relevance (see Cache Modes). To ensure compatibility however, it is still possible to switch between cache mode Query Aggregate (5) and the previous cache modes (see OLAP Cache Monitor).

You can set cache administration parameters to improve performance when using the OLAP cache (see Cache Administration Parameters).

Constant Selection

Enhanced

The documentation for the Constant Selection property has been enhanced (see Constant Selection). The SAP DemoContent for Features now has example queries for constant selection (see Constant Selection in Examples).