Qlik SAP NetWeaver Connector Release Notes - v8.1.0

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Table of Contents

• 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

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

Download this release from the Product Downloads page on Qlik Community.

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