PowerConnect SP 9.00 Release notes (ABAP)
Changes in the supported systems
Netweaver
According to SAP Note 1648480 - Maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 Software including SAP NetWeaver - SAP for Me following systems are not supported by NW version of the addon:
SAP NetWeaver | ABAP stack supported to end of… | ABAP Stack extended maintenance until end of .. | |
Release | Short reference | ||
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 | 7.00 | 2025 | n.a. |
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EHP1 | 7.01 | 2025 | n.a. |
SAP NetWeaver 7.0 EHP2 | 7.02 | 2025 | n.a. |
SAP NetWeaver 7.1 | 7.10 | 2020 | n.a. |
SAP NetWeaver 7.1 EHP1 | 7.11 | 2020 | n.a. |
SAP NetWeaver 7.2 | 7.20 | 2020 | n.a. |
SAP NetWeaver 7.3 | 7.30 | 2020 | n.a. |
The latest available version of PowerConnect is SP 8.06.
S/4HANA
The minimum supported version now is S/4HANA 2020 (SAP_BASIS = 755). The latest version available for these systems is SP 8.06.
Upgrade
Upgrade steps are described in the following KB: https://powerconnect.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/POW/pages/3295215617
!Important notes:
Please perform Metric queue cleanup step before the upgrade
User roles are updated in this release and should be re-imported after upgrade
Known problems
Changes
New
Improvements
STMS by default pulls data only from local system;
HDB_DB02_OVVW extracts Replication Stats;
TREAD_DYN application log message for missing table is removed;
SM37 Spool ID filter option;
GROUP_LIST enhanced with extractor descriptions;
RSUSR009 filter functionality;
ST02_MEM Enhanced with user specific memory data;
Metric extraction: new Distinct count function;
Various security and stability improvements;
Bug fixes
HDB_DBCC_MDIAGF Timestamp bug fix;
USER_AUTH Role grouping fix;
LOGS file name length limit issue;
ALV_REPORTS TIMESTAMP field bug fix;
TREAD_DYN TABNAME field bug fix;
SLG1 exclusion filter bug fix;
SM12 string offset dump bug fix;