PowerConnect SP 7.03 Release notes (ABAP)

Upgrade

Upgrade steps are described in the following KB: https://powerconnect.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/POW/pages/3295215617

!Important notes:

User roles are updated in this release and should be re-imported after upgrade

Known problems

SLG1 might raise GETWA_NOT_ASSIGNED dumps in case message Context Data is activated in the filter. The issue does not affect all messages, but raised only in case certain criteria are met. The fix will be included into the next release.
Metrics are not uploaded to load balanced Target Group
STAD does not collect metrics from all application servers (hotfix is available)
STATS does not collect metrics from all application servers (hotfix is available)

Changes

New

New functionality to route specific events to dedicated connections (Group definition/Event type filter per connection);
New functionality to assign and use different users to collect metrics (beta);
New F&R Messages Extractor (FRE_UI);
New secondary DB connections test Extractor (DBCO);
New HANA Systems Monitor Extractor (HDB_DBCC_SYSMON);
New Reports Variant Data Extractor (VARIANT);
New Transport Management TP call log Extractor (STMS_TPLOG);
New HANA INI files snapshot Extractor (HDB_DBCC_INI);
New HANA User List Extractor (HDB_DBCC_USERS);

Improvements

ST06 Hardware info is now pulled for any OS (ST06_HW);
ST10 is now able to pull data for all applications servers;
Control panel: added a check for allowed user types during job scheduling;
Control panel: added a search-help for user selection during job scheduling;
Control panel: Log Level fields are greyed out in case of read-only access;
PowerConnect application log removal could be triggered from Goto menu option;
STATS events now support milliseconds;
CDPOS extractor got an option to pull only header information;
SU01 enhanced to pull user address data (configurable);
SU01 performance improvements;
SMICM extractor enhanced with ‘Monitor Info’ field to show an additional information about connection;
SXMB_MONI performance improvements;
SXMB_MONI got a possibility to filter XML content according to user input;
SM04 enhanced with user login time information;
SLG1 enhanced to pull message context data based on user input;
SLG1 is now able to pull Transaction ID to correlate the data with STATS (S/4HAHA 2022);
SUIM enhanced with role type field for role related events;
HANA record locks extractor is now pulling only aggregated data (HDB_DBCC_RECLOCK);
SM37 enhanced to pull also job step user type;
RZ10 enhanced with additional value sources;
STAD got new filter maintenance dialog, which provides more options for filtering;
DEVACCESS is now able to determine developers based on assigned authorizations;
New Extractor collection interval is applied immediately after the change;
EVENT_TYPE maximum length is increased to 20, EVENT_SUBTYPE max length is 40;
HDB_DBCC_BCCAT enhanced to pull log backup information;
S416N_CHDOC/SE16N_CHDOC enhanced with event time;
ALV_REPORTS got additional authority check in place for SA38/SE38;
SCU3 enhanced to support wildcards for the user input;
SM20 now supports new DB source (S/4HAHA 2022);
SM20 enhanced to pull Transaction ID field to correlate with STATS (S/4HAHA 2022);

Bug fixes

BgRFC extractor bug fixes (BGRFC_MON, BGRFC_PERFMON);
LTRC_CHECK extractor bug fixes;
SP01_CONTENT Spool limit bug fix;
SM37 Spool limit bug fix;
SM59 filter read-only mode fix;
SXMB_MONI filter read-only mode fix;
SXMB_MONI missing document payload fix;
SICFCHK missing created/changed user details fix;
Missing Application log setup (SLG0) fix;
USER_AUTH dump fix;
DB6_DB02_STMT bug fix for NW 7.31 systems;
SM19 warning fix (warning might be visible in SM21 log);
HDB_DBCC_LDHIST timezone conversion issue bug fix;
RZ10 duplicate entries dump;
SM37 job variants are now extracted for started, finished and cancelled jobs only;
SE16N_CD bug fix to remove garbage characters in the output
S416N_CD bug fix to remove garbage characters in the output