There can only be one SAP connector release (transports for one release) installed on the SAP system. Multiple versions are not possible. There is a backward compatibility to the SAP code, so it is possible to install the new release of the connector on Windows without installing the corresponding SAP transports. In that case, however, new functionalities and bug fixes that are dependent on changes in SAP are not available.
The following table shows the current backwards compatibility of the components of the connector package.
Connectors | Windows files | SAP transport (data extraction) |
SQL connector | 8.0.2 | 6.1.2 or later |
BEx connector | 8.0.2 | 7.0.5 or later |
Query connector | 8.0.2 | 5.80 SR2 or later |
Report connector | 8.0.2 | 5.80 SR2 or later |
Extractor connector | 8.0.2 | 5.80 SR2 or later |
BAPI connector | 8.0.2 | 5.80 SR2 or later |
InfoProvider | 8.0.2 | 6.5.0 or later |
BW | 8.0.2 | 7.0.6 or later |
For versions 8.0.1 and 8.0.0 backwards compatibility check here