Qlik SAP NetWeaver Connector Release Notes - v8.1.0

P-O_Davidson — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:41:45 GMT

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The following release notes cover the versions of SAP NetWeaver, released in v8.1.0.. For questions or comments, post in the Product Forums or contact Qlik Support.

What's new in Qlik Connector for use with SAP NetWeaver v8.1.0

General

Potential BREAKING CHANGE:
The BEx Connector and the InfoProvider Connector have been removed. The BW Connector is fully compatible and should be used instead.

The SAP Connectors have been updated with general bug fixes and improvements, specifically error handling has been improved when some SAP objects raise uncaught errors.

BAPI Connector

Update of .Net Framework to version 4.8.1

BW Connector

Improved BEX_LEGACY datatype processing
Support for navigational attributes in the filter section
Updated descriptions of connection properties
Support for alternate condition field name for ADSO
Reduced memory usage of metadata objects
Updated .Net Framework to v4.8.1

Extractor Connector

Updated .Net Framework to v4.8.1
One new script property: IGNORESYSID, which will send NULL as sysId when starting an Extractor job. Default is FALSE, to send the sysId. The property should be used only if a job gets an unknown timeout error or the following error message:
"Unknown error in Receiver Loop: No transaction handler is installed. Unable to process tRFC/qRFC requests."
Put the property in the script section next to e.g. UPDMODE or TFRMETHOD.
Example:
IGNORESYSID T // (T=true)

SQL Connector

Updated .Net Framework to v4.8.1
Reduced memory usage of metadata objects

Resolved Defects

General

Improved handling of ADSO errors that resulted in infinite loops when errors were raised (8.1.0)

Enhanced logging added to the SAP BW connector to improve information about authorization errors related to specific BW composite objects (8.0.3).

Resolved issue with some conversion routines not being carried out during the extraction jobs for some fields, resulting in incorrect formatting of data. This was updated in both SQL and BW connectors (8.0.3).

In SAP BW InfoProvider support for INT8 data types has been added (8.0.3).

BW Connector

General

Improved error handling when an info provider returns no data due to an error
SncSso always disabled when using SNC
Removed help link from connect dialog in hub.
Fixed sorting order for InfoProvider fields when fetching data
Removed compounding infoobject prefix master data object

Script parsing fixes

Support slash ‘/‘ in BEx query names
Support '+' char in BEx variable values
Support dash ‘-‘ in InfoProvider condition values and be less strict in condition values requiring quoting ‘”’
Allow ‘@‘ character in BEx query and from names
Allow '&' char in BEx query variables
Support '.' dot characters in BEx variable values
Allow spaces for variable values in BEx queries

Extractor Connector

In some cases, the SAP system couldn't find the transaction handler and there was a timeout as no packages were sent to the Qlik SAP Network Server Service

SQL Connector

SncSso always disabled when using SNC
Fix bcd/packed number datatype handling, Convert to double in connector so regional settings doesn't impact how it's converted
Removed help link from connect dialog in hub.
DEC types included also when FLTP_LEGACY switch is enabled. The switch changes data type mapping to send data as texts instead of parsed doubles.

Upgrade notes

See the online help on Installing the connectors, and the attached Installation Guide.

Downloads

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What's new in Qlik Connector for use with SAP NetWeaver v8.1.0

General

BAPI Connector

BW Connector

Extractor Connector

SQL Connector

Resolved Defects

General

BW Connector

General

Script parsing fixes

Extractor Connector

SQL Connector

Upgrade notes

Downloads