Enhancements

General

Handling of Enhancements

ABAP Agent transport requests no longer contain any enhancements of standard SAP components ("enhancements"). All enhancements are now moved to separate transport requests that need to be imported after ABAP Agent installation transport requests. A new transport request for pre-upgrade cleanup was also added and is intended for removal of all enhancements.

This change affects the following processes:

  • ABAP Agent Installation
    • Transport requests with relevant enhancements must be imported after all relevant ABAP Agent component transport requests are imported.
  • ABAP Agent Upgrade
    • Pre-upgrade cleanup transport request must be imported before all other transport requests.
    • Transport requests with relevant enhancements must be imported after all relevant ABAP Agent component transport requests are imported.
  • ABAP Agent Uninstallation
    • Pre-upgrade cleanup transport request can be imported before all other transport requests.
  • Enhancement deactivation
    • Enhancement uninstallation transport request is reproposed as pre-upgrade cleanup transport request, and is now placed in a dedicated sub-folder in the release zip file.
  • Enhancement reactivation
    • Transport requests for enhancement reinstallation are repurposed as enhancement installation transport requests, and are now placed in a dedicated sub-folder in the release zip file.

Please refer to individual readme.txt files for more details.

ABAP Agent

SAP-582 (ASM-1753): Statement Hash in Top 5 SQL Statements

Top 5 SQL statement data collectors extracted from HANA expensive statements will now contain also SQL statement hash string for easy identification and categorization of similar SQL statements.

Monitoring

SAP-580 (ASM-1688): SPOOL Monitoring

Added new collector to monitor metrics about spool services of the SAP system, including a detail table for failed spool print requests and a new dashboard. See SAP General Dashboards.

Resolved Issues and Improvements

ABAP Agent Improvements

  • SAP-576 (ASM-1768): HTTP SDK was recompiled with latest C++ SDK and OpenSSL version.

ABAP Agent Fixes

  • ASM-1786: Fixed Request Queue dashboard that caused issues with automatic dashboard upload.

Monitoring Improvements and Fixes

  • Detailed Monitoring release notes can be found here: link.