Automate the check of best practice guidelines for ABAP routines in SAP BW systems focused on statements that can potentially be optimized for SAP HANA

1. SAP BW ABAP Routine Analyzer
Marc Bernard, Product Management SAP EDW (BW/HANA)
Version 3.4 (October 2014) Public

2. Goal
Automate the check of
best practice guidelines
for ABAP routines in
SAP BW systems
focused on
statements that can potentially be
optimized for SAP HANA
Note: The checks are not necessarily complete. The goal is rather to
automate and combine various checks that would have to be performed
manually otherwise.
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3. Preview
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4. Solution Provided by Product Management SAP EDW (BW/HANA)
SAP Note 1847431 (http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1847431)
y Attachment to the note contains a How To Guide and an ABAP Program to
perform checks in a matter of minutes that would otherwise take hours or days to
execute manually
y The output of the program is self-descriptive. In case of questions, contact the
author.
y Successful checks are indicated with green lights
– No further action necessary
y General findings are indicated with yellow lights
– It is recommended to follow the suggested action
y Critical findings are indicated with red lights
– It is highly recommended to follow the suggested action and adjust the ABAP code
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5. Solution Provided by Product Management SAP EDW (BW/HANA)
Installation
Install one of two ABAP programs:
y ZBW_ABAP_ANALYZER (for BW 7.x and higher)
– All features supported
y ZBW_ABAP_ANALYZER_3X (for lower BW releases)
– Limited to transfer and update rules
– No support for regular expressions
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6. Solution Details
Selection Screen – Checks
Select check sets and execute
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7. Solution Details
Selection Screen – Process Chains
Optionally, limit the scope of
the analysis
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8. Solution Details
Selection Screen – Transformations
Optionally, limit the scope of
the analysis
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9. Solution Details
Selection Screen – Transfer Rules
Optionally, limit the scope of
the analysis
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10. Solution Details
Selection Screen – Update Rules
Optionally, limit the scope of
the analysis
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11. Solution Details
Selection Screen – Planning
Optionally, limit the scope of
the analysis
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12. Solution Details
Selection Screen – Analysis Processes
Optionally, limit the scope of
the analysis
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13. Solution Details
Selection Screen – Find
Enter keywords for full text
search
Select which type of
statements should be checked
Optionally, limit scope of checks to
customer objects only (tables, functions,
classes)
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14. Solution Details
Selection Screen – Options
Optionally, you can choose to display
secondary database indexes or to
display the complete coding as a list.
You can also save results to the application
log (object RSD, sub-object MIGRATION).
Note: Batch jobs will always save to log.
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15. Solution Details
Result Display
Checks are displayed as
application log
Separate sections for various
check sets
Jump to details available for
y SAP Notes
y SAP Help
y Programs
y Transactions
y Extended Syntax Check
y ABAP Code Inspector
Jump to maintenance
available for
y Transformations
y Transfer Rules
Check transformations and y Update Rules
transfer/update rules can be displayed
by clicking on “Detail” button
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16. Solution Details
Result Display
Links to additional information are provided at the end of the log
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17. Solution Details
Result Download
Recommended download format for log is “HTML”:
y Includes status icons
y Easy to view on various devices
However, HTML download for long logs (>2000 messages) can take a long time. In
such case it’s better to download to a local text file.
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18. Status
y General Availability for Customers: April 20, 2013
y Most recent version of program is always attached to SAP Note 1847431
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19. Thank You!
We value your opinion. Let us know how you like this presentation and tool and how we
can make adopting SAP innovations a more beautiful experience.
Contact information:
Marc F. Bernard
Sr. Chief Architect / Product Management SAP EDW (BW/HANA)
SAP Canada, Inc.
marc.bernard@sap.com
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