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ABAP Cloud readinesscore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the state changed, so the block now says what the added providers do, as kinds with the defining ones linked.Capability,
Agent access to your codecoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed the tool count and the two absence claims about who has built something.Capability,
Agent evalscore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): albertmink-agentic-abap-evals, an independent set of ABAP tasks and a grader for coding agents, was entered after the block was written; the count is dropped and the second kind named. State unchanged.Capability,
Agent guidancecoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): docs/WRITING.md §3 rules out provider counts and absence claims in every capability field.Capability,
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Attachmentscoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): drops a count-like contrast with a plugin the flavor does not have.Capability,
Authenticationcoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): no community artifact on the UI5 door provides this capability by an edge; the middlewares the text named provide ui5-build-tooling, and the only sample on the door is not a presence. what_core_does stays, so the core remains present.Capability,
Authorizationcoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note claimed every provider behind the door is an SAP service, a statement about the corpus that goes stale, and did not name the fresh btp-oauth provider. Coverage state unchanged: only SAP-official services count behind this door.Capability,
Browsing table datacore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note described the providers as SAP GUI programs only, and browser apps, an IDE extension and a desktop editor have arrived; the state stays core-and-community.Capability,
Calling a service by handcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): abap-odata-test arrived after the block was assessed and changes the kinds of community answer; the state stays core-and-community.Capability,
Certificate managementcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note was an absence claim about providers; the new SAP provider btp-custom-domain is sap-official, so core-only still holds.Capability,
Change promotioncore coverage, id, ecosystems, name revisedPublic feedback issue #9. The ABAP name is kept in framing_by_ecosystem.abap; the default name and description now state the cross-door concern.Capability,
Change trackingcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed a count, and linked the entry the graph holds instead of its repository.Capability,
Clean code conventionscore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): FORMfactor, an independent ABAP generator, provides this capability, so the community is present on the door.Capability,
Code formattingcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the abap2UI5 playground provides this capability and the text never named it; ABAP FS named for the kind of VS Code integration.Capability,
Code reviewcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): providers that arrived after the 2026-09-13 assessment (abapTimeMachine, abapOpenReview, a transport review app) shape the answer; state unchanged, core-and-community.Capability,
Configurationcoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): config-management arrived as a provider after the block was last looked at; the state stays core-and-community.Capability,
Data modellingcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): independent ABAP providers (CDS Analyser, CDS field mapping, acds) now provide this capability on the ABAP door.Capability,
Database connectorscoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note counted one entry behind the door; it now names the driver and SAP HANA, which now provides the capability on this door. State unchanged.Capability,
Debuggingcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): seven ABAP providers newer than the block were never named. State stays core-and-community.Capability,
Document outputcoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the service is a provider on this door and the text named it without the link. Wording otherwise unchanged; the state stays core-only.Capability,
Documentationcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): absence claims about providers go stale as providers arrive. The flavor states are unchanged.Capability,
Driving the SAP GUIcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed the count and the popularity wording, and named the kinds, including batch input (jrgkraus-tool-bi) and SAP's sample, which the text never named.Capability,
Editor supportcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the providers behind the UI5 door are SAP's (UI5 Language Assistant, and SAP Build Code and SAP Web IDE Full-Stack, which serve ui5). The community SAPUI5 Extension is an entry in the graph but has no provides edge to this capability.Capability,
Error handlingcoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): brandeis-consulting-abap-prc arrived after the block was last looked at, and the block named no community kinds.Capability,
Event Meshcoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note made a claim about every provider and named none, and the SAP services that arrived since the block was assessed (Advanced Event Mesh, the Integration Suite event broker, Cloud Application Event Hub) shape the answer. The state stays core-only, since every provider counting for the door is sap-official.Capability,
Extensibilitycore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): a provider of a second kind, a discovery report for existing enhancement points, arrived after the block was last assessed and the text never named it. State unchanged (core-and-community).Capability,
Finding a transaction codecore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): sapgui arrived as a second kind, one that reads the system's own menu, and the prose counted entries.Capability,
Generatorscore coverage, coverage by ecosystem, framing by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the atlas holds these entries, so the links point at them and not at their repositories (docs/WRITING.md section 4).Capability,
HTTP clientscore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): two providers added since 2026-09-14 that the text never named; the singular "one client interface" also read as a count.Capability,
IDE provisioningcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): eclipsadt-o-mat arrived after the last look and the text never named it; state unchanged.Capability,
Importing and exporting table datacore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the count of sample repositories goes stale as providers arrive, and the ABAP backend importer and the Excel add-in change the shape of the answer, so the note names those kinds. The ABAP state stays core-and-community.Capability,
Input validationcoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): no artifact carries a provides edge to this capability for the UI5 door, because openui5-validator provides ui5-data-binding. The state follows the edges, and the core stays present through the block's sourced what_core_does.Capability,
Knowing the maintenance status of a releasecore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedui5-task-check-eocp, from public feedback issue #6, is the first independent provider on the UI5 door, beside SAP's SAPUI5 version overview.Capability,
Launchpad pluginscore coverage, coverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed an absence claim and a count of providers (WRITING §3); the flavor states are unchanged.Capability,
LLM integrationcoverage by ecosystem, core coverage, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note claimed who provides the capability behind this flavor, which moves with the corpus. The flavor state is unchanged.Capability,
Loading a warehousecore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): ERPL is a provider the text never named, and it loads from ABAP systems outside BW routines. State unchanged.Capability,
Local developmentcoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note counted providers and claimed an absence about who has built something, which goes stale as providers arrive.Capability,
Localizationcoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): providers arrived after the block was last looked at, an XLIFF editor and an MCP server among them, and the text named none of the kinds.Capability,
Loggingcoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the state is now community-only and the block needed to say what the community adds.Capability,
Maintaining table entriescore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): open-abap-open-table-maintenance, a community-org package served from an HTTP handler for one table named in its code, was not named; the browser editor is now linked. State unchanged.Capability,
Model visualisationcoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): abapGraph and abap-search-tools-ui arrived after the ABAP block was last looked at and the text never named them. No state changed.Capability,
Notificationscore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note claimed every provider is independent, a statement about who has built something; it now names the kinds, including the process framework that mails about failed objects.Capability,
ODatacoverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note counted the repositories and named none of the kinds that arrived since the block was assessed; it now names the kinds and links the ones that define them. State unchanged.Capability,
Retrieval-augmented generationcoverage by ecosystem, core coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): a CAP-door provider reaches Document Grounding through the LangChain vector store interface, a shape the two plugins do not cover.Capability,
RFC connectivitycore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): erpl-node-rfc, pyrfc-mcp, rfc-connector and Cloud Connector reached this door after the block was written and change its shape from callee only to callee and caller.Capability,
Searchcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the only independent provider behind the ABAP door is ZC8A_001, an artifact of type sample, which is not a presence; the core stays because what_core_does is sourced.Capability,
Searching code in a systemcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note named no kind of provider, and five providers newer than the 2026-09-14 assessment shape the answer. State unchanged.Capability,
Seed datacore coverage, coverage by ecosystem revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): no artifact provides seed-data for the UI5 door; the two tools the sentence named provide ui5-testing. The core stays present on the sourced what_core_does. The tools stay on the graph under ui5-testing.Capability,
Serialisationcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): abap-architect, an ide-extension that provides this capability, was not named; ajson linked as the defining parser.Capability,
Serve your application over MCPcoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note counted providers, and sap-security-mcp no longer provides this capability. The unmapped state is unchanged.Capability,
Source controlcore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): providers added since 2026-08-31 change the kinds the community adds beyond the in-system git client; the state stays core-and-community.Capability,
Static analysiscore coverage revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the block named none of the providers that arrived after 2026-08-31. State unchanged, core-and-community still matches the providers.Capability,
Telemetrycoverage by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removes a universal claim about the providers that goes stale as they arrive.Capability,
Tool governancedescription, core coverage, coverage by ecosystem, framing by ecosystem, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): a count of providers removed.Capability,
UI written in ABAPcore coverage, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): removed the claim that abap2UI5 is the sole provider, which went stale as providers arrived.Capability,
Unit testingcore coverage, coverage by flavor revisedReassessed against the graph (check:capabilities): the note counted the artifacts and said they were in staging; both are in the graph now and are named.Capability,
Yesterday
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Agent access to your codecoverage by ecosystem revisedRewritten at the maintainer's request (2026-10-25): what SAP ships named whole, and what the community adds written from what its ABAP MCP servers state about how they run, connect and sign in.Capability,
Thu 22
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@mcp-abap-adt/corereleased 20.0.0ABAP ADT MCP server published as an npm scope and pluginMCP server,
Wed 21
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@mcp-abap-adt/corereleased 19.0.0ABAP ADT MCP server published as an npm scope and pluginMCP server,
Tue 20
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Joule for Developers with SAP BTP ABAP Environment-Setup GuidepublishedA step-by-step setup guide for SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities under its Q2 2026 limited-promotion licence: creating a BTP subaccount, adding ABAP environment and HANA compute-unit entitlements, enabling Cloud Foundry, configuring trust to Cloud Identity Services, creating the ABAP environment instance and assigning the developer role, then pointing ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse at the new system. It walks through the resulting Joule chat, predictive code completion, explain, ABAP Unit and CDS test-generation features inside a newly created ABAP Cloud project.Blog,
What an AI infra engineer sees when opening SAP's AI stack (1/3): the model gatewaypublishedA first look at SAP AI Core's Generative AI Hub from someone who builds gateways outside SAP for a living: the orchestration service harmonizes provider calls onto one API (a model name string switches providers, and SAP Note 3437766 carries the current model list, token rates and deprecation dates), runs a fixed, non-reorderable module pipeline — templating, masking through SAP Data Privacy Integration, grounding, content filtering, then the model call — and retries down an ordered fallback list whose entries can each carry their own model and rules. It places @sap-ai-sdk/orchestration among the official JavaScript, Java and Python SDKs, and notes SAP's own LiteLLM provider as a way to put a different gateway in front of it.Blog,
Mon 19
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🟣 Bring AI into Your ABAP Applications with ISLM: Build, Integrate, and Consume AI NativelypublishedDevtoberfest 2026 session AI-11, from the product manager and product owner of Intelligent Scenario Lifecycle Management: ISLM as the place an AI use case is registered, deployed and operated inside an SAP S/4HANA system, and what has been added to it for generative AI. The demo builds a custom scenario end to end — an intelligent scenario of type generative AI, a connection to SAP AI Core, a GPT-5 mini model, an orchestration flow template that configures data masking, input and output filtering and translation into the user's logged-in language, then prompts with a grounding query over five companies' return-policy documents — and consumes it from an ABAP report through the ABAP AI SDK, which calls the orchestration API and returns the summary as JSON. Two newer pieces follow: SAP RPT, the relational pre-trained transformer for tabular prediction, called with context rows and query rows and answering with a confidence value and no training step; and system-triggered agents, where an application job in the ABAP system starts a billing-creation agent that reaches S/4HANA OData APIs as tools through the agent gateway with principal propagation. The closing availability matrix states the generative AI capabilities for on-premise and private cloud from the 2021 release, with SAP notes to implement on lower ones.Talk,
🟣 Enable Your AI application to Run on Multiple Models to Ensure Resilience and CompliancepublishedDevtoberfest 2026 session AI-21. A cross product owner on the SAP AI Core team gives the reasons an AI application ends up on more than one model — a model down at the hyperscaler, a data centre that is not allowed to run it, a version being deprecated — and runs a joke app that answers from Gemini 2.5 Flash in EU10 and from Claude 4.5 Haiku in Asia-Pacific. The walk through AI Core's parts is where the edges hold: prompts kept as templates in the prompt registry, imported through the launchpad and the APIs or synced as YAML from a git repository (Prompt management); the evaluation service scoring one prompt across up to four models per run on built-in or model-as-judge metrics, and the prompt optimizer generating variants against one metric (Agent evals); and the orchestration service harmonising the providers behind one message format with a priority-sorted fallback list (LLM integration). The session also states where a metric has to be designed rather than picked: an exact-JSON match scores an email generator at zero, so the joke app's custom metric judges topic and family-appropriateness instead.Talk,
ABAP AI SDK powered by ISLM - How to implement your own AI use cases in ABAPpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 ABAP-track session (ABA-44) on the ABAP AI SDK: an intelligent scenario development object holds the model and its version, so the ABAP code asks for an API, sends a prompt and reads the completion with its token counts and finish reason, and swapping the model is a change to that object rather than to the code. Four demos go through the ABAP line by line — a bare completion, a system prompt with the temperature set to 0.2, tool calls where the model asks for order details and the result goes back into the message container, and a JSON response schema that returns category, severity and goodwill as fields a program can act on — and a fifth replaces the API with the SDK's own mocks so unit tests run with no network call, which is what the LLM integration edge on the ABAP door rests on. The closing availability matrix separates base scenarios, available across SAP S/4HANA on-premise, private edition, public cloud and the SAP BTP ABAP environment, from the orchestration service and SAP RPT, shown for on-premise and private cloud with transport-based correction instructions back to release 2022 and not yet for the public cloud editions.Talk,
ABAP Development Tools for VS CodepublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session on ABAP Development Tools for VS Code: where the extension sits after the ABAP Workbench and ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse, the ADT language server both editors share, and what the releases since May 2026 cover. The demo installs the extension, creates a destination, opens, creates and activates objects, runs ATC and ABAP Unit, and names the object types, domains among them, for which a developer still goes to Eclipse or SAP GUI. It also opens the extension's settings to turn on the ADT MCP Server and shows the tools a chat can call, with the object search and source code search tools listed as planned.Talk,
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Agentic Loop with Joule for Developers and ADT MCP ServerpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session from SAP's ABAP AI team that generates a RAP issue-tracker application by prompting a coding agent. It covers what SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities now ships as MCP tools and which assistants can reach an ABAP system's virtual filesystem, then does the setup twice: turning on the ADT MCP Server and pasting the Joule side-by-side tenant link in ABAP Development Tools for VS Code, and again in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse, where the custom agent becomes custom instructions. The demo's subject is the guardrails around the loop — an agent.md of phases and human checkpoints, skill files cloned from a GitHub repository for naming, ATC compliance and UI annotations — run through GitHub Copilot until the generated objects are activated, unit-tested and in a transport.Talk,
AI-assisted SAP development with MCPpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session (UI-41) that traces AI-assisted SAP development from pasting code into a chat window to coding agents with built-in connectors, and sorts the MCP servers around SAP development into SAP's own, the community's and the hosted ones, where the agent cannot change what the server allows. Four demos follow: GitHub Copilot alone explaining an ABAP report from a Git repository, @ui5/mcp-server reading an OpenUI5 sample app and converting it to TypeScript, mcp-sap-docs grounding Terraform files for a BTP subaccount the presenter had not written before, and arc-1 with Copilot in Eclipse tracing why a title longer than 40 characters is rejected and proposing the DDIC-allowed length instead. It ends on a skill that migrates an SAP Gateway project on an ECC system to RAP on S/4HANA step by step, and on a rule Marian Zeis gives for servers written for internal use: keep them read-only, because what the agent is short of is context.Talk,
Always in Sync — Field-level and event-driven side effects for reactive UIs in RAPpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session on side effects in RAP — the declarations in a behaviour definition that tell a draft UI to reload what a change affected, instead of leaving the user to refresh the browser. Field-level side effects recalculate a total price from a determination when a booking fee is entered, including across the association from a child item up to the root entity, and a permissions side effect toggles a description field between read-only and editable; a global side effect is attached to a determine action, fires when the user presses Enter, and only one may exist per business object, which is why the prepare action and a second determine action cannot both carry it. The last part starts a long-running calculation through the background processing framework and raises a business event that the behaviour definition lists as a side effect source and the projection makes public, so the Fiori app is updated with a notification when the work finishes, whether it was triggered by the user or by an application job — the transactional model and the async processing side the edges rest on.Talk,
Bridging Python and SAP HANA: Inside the sqlalchemy-hana Open-Source DialectpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 data-track session (DAT-21) in which one of the maintainers of sqlalchemy-hana, the open-source SQLAlchemy dialect published in SAP's GitHub organisation, opens up what sits between Python and SAP HANA. It walks the five dialect classes that render statements, types, DDL, identifiers and sequences, and the HANA specifics they absorb: the FROM DUMMY a bare SELECT needs, a limit injected when only an offset is given, string compiled to NVARCHAR, and quoted case-sensitive identifiers against Python's lowercase. The rest covers schema migrations with Alembic on HANA's transactional DDL, the recently added async support and vector types, and that HANA Cloud and HANA 2 are supported while HANA 1 is not.Talk,
Bring "developers.sap.com" Into Your Dev Environment: SAP Developer Context for AI Coding AgentspublishedDevtoberfest 2026 session FA-11: a tour of the rebuilt developers.sap.com by the team that runs it, from the administration screens behind the home page to the agent interfaces in front of it. The site is a CAP application on SAP HANA Cloud and SAP BTP, open-sourced in full, and the half of the session that places it here is how its content reaches an agent: every tutorial is also served as markdown, a coding agent is detected and given that version instead of the HTML, a well-known agent card advertises what the site offers, and SAP Developers MCP answers questions about tutorials, news and a reader's own completion history in Claude Code and Joule Desktop, over OAuth or a personal access token. Behind the answers sit two things working together: a knowledge graph in the HANA database over 1400 tutorials and 11,000 concepts, and SAP AI Core for the Joule interactions and the embeddings, with the agent harness written for the site rather than taken off a shelf. Where neither MCP nor A2A is available, the same content is published as skills.Talk,
Building Agentic Workflows with n8n in Joule StudiopublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session, JS-31, on SAP-managed n8n inside Joule Studio, shown as a labs preview on a blocked-invoice scenario: a solution made of assets, an intent refined by the web agent into requirements and then a specification, and the generated workflow opened in the n8n editor that Joule Studio connects to its own n8n tenant, with the generated files committed through GitHub. The nodes carry the other edges — the human-in-the-loop node is built on SAP Task Center, and SAP AI Core is where model providers are configured centrally instead of per developer. It ends in Joule chat, where the approval task the workflow created is listed, opened and completed.Talk,
Building Code-Based AI Agents on the BAIPpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session on writing the agent yourself rather than configuring one, which is the agent tooling edge: an agent is a model with tools, skills, memory and context around it, and the session reads the code of one built in CAP as a LangGraph state graph, with an agent node that calls the model, a tools node holding the MCP clients, and the edge between them looping until no tool is needed. It then shows the shorter route, a CDS service annotated for the agent protocol with its instructions and skills in an agent.md file. SAP AI Core carries both, with the CAP service in front of it as middleware so the credentials never reach the browser, and that is what cap-agent-ui5-webui is demonstrated against: added as a dependency, it gives the annotated service a UI5 chat interface that can be deployed rather than only previewed. A Python multi-agent application on Cloud Foundry, where an orchestrator delegates to per-stack specialists so no single model sees every tool, closes the session.Talk,
CDS Associations & JoinspublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session from SAP's performance and scalability team on what an ABAP CDS association becomes on SAP HANA, taken as an excerpt from their internal performance training. The CDS edge rests on the three ways an association is used: a path expression and an explicit join both put a left outer join into the generated view, while exposing the association leaves the view without one and adds the join only for a query that asks for its fields, which the session calls join on demand. The data modelling edge is the advice that follows and the demo under it — cardinality written as precisely as the data allows, because the optimiser trusts it, shown with a view whose missing cardinality let SELECT COUNT(*) prune the join and return 18 rows where selecting the columns returned 56, plus the left-hand, right-hand and left-outer-to-inner rewrites that correct cardinalities make possible.Talk,
Developing authorizations for business users in SAP Business AI Platform, ABAP environmentpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session that walks the places an authorization check has to be written when a RAP business object is implemented, which is the whole of the authorization edge: read restrictions as DCL access controls that become a filter at query time, a child entity inheriting its parent's conditions through an association, the projection layer inheriting rather than changing them, and the same check repeated on the draft side. The ABAP CDS edge holds on that draft half — until 2608 a draft query view was needed above the draft table so a DCL had something to attach to, while a draft table entity is already on CDS level and takes the DCL directly, as long as the associations used in the inherited conditions are redefined on it. Create, update and delete are then taken handler by handler, including the trap that instance authorization reads the buffer and so cannot see the new value a pre-check would reject, and the session closes on in local mode and privileged EML calls.Talk,
Edge Integration Cell - what's new?publishedA Devtoberfest 2026 integration-track session (INT-41) on Edge Integration Cell, the runtime of SAP Integration Suite a customer runs on their own Kubernetes cluster while design, configuration and monitoring stay in the cloud tenant. It names what the customer has to provide — a supported Kubernetes platform, SAP HANA or PostgreSQL, Redis or Valkey as data store, a load balancer — then the Edge Lifecycle Management cockpit with its monthly rolling updates, the inbuilt and the external Cloud Connector options and why a DMZ placement calls for the second, and the adapters available only on Edge: RFC sender, NFS, OFTP2 and UNF. The demo deploys an OFTP-to-file flow to the Edge runtime and shows the same flow rejected when its runtime profile is switched to cloud, which is where the Integration flows edge holds.Talk,
How to Build Application Jobs in SAP Business AI Platform, ABAP environmentpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session on the application job framework in the cloud ABAP environment, built from the repository objects outwards: a class implementing the new application job interface, whose public attributes become the parameters and select options, the application log object it writes to, a job catalog entry that lays out sections, groups and value helps, and a job catalog template that works like a report variant. The demo schedules and monitors runs in the Application Jobs Fiori app, starts a job from a RAP action through the scheduling API under a job user of its own, and debugs one through the template's run-for-testing entry. It closes on the alternatives for work that should not be a job — the background processing framework for short-running work, and RAP events consumed locally or sent over the event mesh — which is the async processing this session covers for SAP BTP ABAP environment.Talk,
How to implement business AI capabilities in ABAP CloudpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session (ABA-32) on embedding AI in an ABAP Cloud application and on making SAP Joule aware of what that application can do. The first demo implements two features of a RAP travel app with the ABAP AI SDK: a determination on an uploaded receipt that sends the image together with the allowed categories and transaction types to a model reached through an intelligent scenario, then writes the extracted description, category, currency and amount back to the expense entity; and a recommendation function, triggered by a side effect on the trip title, that proposes a trip type with a score the Fiori UI sorts the proposals by and leaves the business user to accept — which is LLM integration from ABAP code. The second demo builds a capability for SAP Joule in the Joule Studio code editor in VS Code, with a scenario that extracts a trip title from the user's intent and calls an OData service in the ABAP backend through a BTP destination, deploys it and asks the Joule test UI for the trip's details; the session states that agents reach ABAP only over governed remote APIs — OData, SQL and MCP — and that automatic grounding of custom OData services in the knowledge graph is upcoming rather than available.Talk,
Intelligent App Development at Scale: SAP Fiori Elements + ABAP Development Tools for VS CodepublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session (UI-33) that builds a RAP service and the SAP Fiori elements app over it from one VS Code workspace, with a coding agent driving two of SAP's MCP servers. The ABAP Development Tools for VS Code edges hold on the demo itself: its virtual file system keeps the ABAP package beside the Fiori project, the ADT MCP Server inside it creates, changes and activates the ABAP objects, and a version not yet released publishes the service binding from the agent instead of by hand. The @sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server edge covers its generators and the three-step workflow it uses for changes — list the functionality available for the application, ask for its JSON schema, then execute it — and the agent guidance edge rests on the skills the Fiori team publishes beside it, on the session's account of what a skill adds that a server does not, and on the analytical chart demo where a skill orchestrates both servers in one task.Talk,
News from Custom Code Migration: ECC to SAP S/4HANA Powered by Agentic AIpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session (ABA-23) on what SAP has added to the ECC to SAP S/4HANA custom code migration tools, demonstrated across a live ECC and an S/4HANA system. The first half stays deterministic and explains static analysis in that process: the custom code migration app's scoping over ABAP test cockpit findings, an explain of a legacy report and of an S/4HANA simplification finding, and transferable quick fixes exported from the app and applied on the ECC system through the SAP GUI ATC transaction before conversion. The second half runs the S/4HANA custom code migration agent in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse: GitHub Copilot drives the ADT MCP Server's ATC and quick-fix tools in a loop, SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities produces the AI code proposals behind it, and only the high-confidence ones are written into the code, the rest left as comments in one transport request.Talk,
S/4HANA Custom Development - What happens in case of errors in BAPIs or RAP BOs?publishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session on what a custom S/4HANA process does when a BAPI or a RAP business object fails. It is framed from project work rather than product development, with the same issues and challenges turning up on project after project, and it offers the ABAP Processing Center, ABAP-PRC, as what fills the gap it names in modern ABAP development. The edges rest on the opening, which states the session's subject as errors in S/4HANA custom development, read as error handling on the ABAP door, and names that framework.Talk,
SAP BAIP, ABAP environment – How to build partner solutions and get them certifiedpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session on the two ways a partner ships an ABAP Cloud solution built on SAP BTP ABAP environment, which the session calls the ABAP environment of SAP Business AI Platform: software delivery, where an add-on product is published with the solution ID from SAP Store onboarding and the customer discovers and deploys it into their own system, and service delivery, where the partner operates the same add-on as a multi-tenant SaaS and a new version is deployed rather than published again. That is the ABAP environment edge; the static analysis edge rests on the quality steps shown in the landscape portal, where the Manage Continuous Testing app released with 2608 runs an ATC check variant against a configured system on a recurrence pattern, beside test product version builds and managed test tenants. The second half walks through the SAP Integration and Certification Center process and the three BTP certification options open to an add-on product.Talk,
Unlocking Tabular Foundation Models: From Experimentation to ProductionpublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session (AI-41) on taking tabular prediction from a playground to a deployment. It sets tabular foundation models against a model trained per use case and against language models reading rows as text, explains in-context learning as examples plus the rows whose target column is missing, and tries SAP RPT 1.6 on a train-delay dataset in the RPT playground, including the column and row importance it returns with the prediction. The same prediction is then rebuilt on SAP AI Core, where the tabular orchestration service plays the part the orchestration service plays for language models: a data destination, a table artifact with its CSN schema and a scenario configuration registered once at design time, after which a predict call passes only the query rows, the scenario configuration and a context-selection strategy. The last demo runs those same calls in natural language through the aicore-skills plugin in a coding agent, and one of them only resolves once the agent is told which scenario configuration to use.Talk,
Updates on Embedded Analytics in ABAP Cloud for DeveloperspublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session (ABA-33) on the generator wizards for Embedded Analytics in ABAP Cloud, run by right-clicking a data definition in the ADT Project Explorer. It first names the artefacts a star schema needs, all of them ABAP CDS — cube view at its centre, dimension, text and hierarchy views reached by association, a hierarchy directory, and an InA service definition and binding — and then generates them: the star schema generator reads a view entity's metadata, sorts its fields into dimensions and measures, asks about the ones it cannot decide, offers the dimension views it found and writes an activated cube view; the hierarchy generator produces directory, node, base and definition views plus a maintenance business object with a generated app, which is used to group airlines into alliances before the hierarchy is switched on in the layout of the multi-dimensional analysis app. That is analytic modelling on the ABAP platform, which is what the edges rest on; the outlook names time-dependent hierarchies, translatable texts and dimensions generated from database tables.Talk,
What's new with draft handling in RAP?publishedAn ABAP-day session at Devtoberfest 2026 on two additions to draft handling in RAP: collaborative draft, where two users work on the same draft instance and a field is locked only while the other is in it, and draft scope, where editing an instance of one draft-enabled business object puts the related instances of a dependent one into draft as well. Andre Fischer shows what each costs in the behaviour definition and projection, the draft query view and its DCL that collaborative draft needs over a table-based business object, and the CDS table entities that remove both the draft query view and the persistence table, with their current restrictions in ABAP analytics and extensibility; the from-scratch generator in ADT grows a checkbox for them. Both demos run against the DMO flight scenario of SAP-samples/abap-platform-refscen-flight, and the last part hides the draft-related features of an OData V4 app in its manifest, which the session gives as the reason a simple create-update-delete app no longer needs a V2 service binding.Talk,
ABAP Select Converterflavors, description, links revisedThe flavor rests on the page's own "It is primarily used to migrate existing code to ABAP Cloud."; nothing on either page places the tool in standard ABAP. The page's "Additional infos" link was read for the first time and is now links.docs: it states the beta and lists what the converter supports and does not, which replaces the earlier "nothing for a batch of statements", a limit read off what the form does not show. The my-ide-actions sentence now follows that repository's own words, "The basis is the SwH tool" and the security table's "SELECT Converter | Software-Heroes API | -> Full SELECT Statement", and calls it an IDE Action rather than a package, which is the type that entry carries.Web tool,
Authenticationecosystems revisedui5-middleware-oidc was staged in intake-20261019-bestofui5 under ui5-build-tooling because this capability was not open on the UI5 door. The UI5 reading comes from the README of SAP's backend-proxy-middleware.Capability,
CDS Field Mappingdescription revisedSAP's Cloudification Repository is in the graph, so the README's source is named by its entry rather than by a URL none of this entry's sources gave. The README's sentence is "Source will be the Cloudification Repository, where the mapping old table to new Core Data Services is listed.", so the prose reports it as what the README names and not as how the mapping file is produced today: the file in the repository comes from an extractor class you copy and run in your own system. The CAST, CASE and ABS gap is attributed to the tool's page, which is where that sentence stands, rather than to the README.Web tool,
Cloudification Repository Viewerflavors revisedThe documentation's Introduction places what the viewer shows in one flavor: "The Cloudification Repository is part of the new ABAP Cloud development model and lists released standard APIs that can be used to build the TIER 1 layer." Neither page states a standard ABAP use, so that flavor is left unstated.Web tool,
Editor supportecosystems revisedUI5 Language Assistant, SAP's VS Code extension for UI5 XML views and manifest.json, and the SAPUI5 Extension by iljapostnovs were staged in intake-20261019-bestofui5 with this concern as their best fit, and the capability was not open on the UI5 door. The UI5 reading comes from the UI5 Language Assistant README.Capability,
Input validationecosystems revisedopenui5-validator was staged in intake-20261019-bestofui5 under ui5-data-binding because this capability was not open on the UI5 door. The UI5 reading comes from the OpenUI5 pages on data types and validation messages.Capability,
Loggingecosystems revisedSRBJSLogger and openui5-error-collector were staged in intake-20261019-bestofui5 with no capability edge, because this capability was not open on the UI5 door. The UI5 reading comes from the sap/base/Log API documentation and the OpenUI5 Logging and Tracing page.Capability,
secondsky/sap-skillstype properties, flavors revisedRead today in the two plugins that answer the CAP and the UI5 door, which the ABAP pass had not opened. The sap-cap-capire skill's frontmatter states that it covers Node.js and Java runtimes, so CAP's two flavors rest on the maintainer's sentence where the entry previously answered in both by the serves-another-door fallback, which is the same reading off an absence. The sapui5 skill's frontmatter names freestyle apps and Fiori elements apps in one clause, so freestyle is stated, and fiori-elements moves onto that sentence from the README line about which request activates sap-fiori-tools, which said what triggers a plugin rather than what it covers. Nothing read names UI5 Web Components, so that flavor stays unstated. Stating freestyle changes an answer: the entry answered no there while it stated one UI5 flavor and now answers yes, which a reader comparing that flavor's options will see. The ABAP pair is unchanged.Skill,
Seed dataecosystems revisedvscode-ui5-odata-mock-generator and openui5-smart-mockserver were staged in intake-20261019-bestofui5 under ui5-testing; the first one's drafter noted that seed-data fit better but was not open on the UI5 door. The UI5 reading comes from the OpenUI5 mock server pages and SAP's ui5-middleware-fe-mockserver README.Capability,
Werkbankprovides revisedWhat Werkbank adds for ABAP, CAP and UI5 is its catalog of development skills; the workspace itself is not specific to any of those stacks. Agent workspaces is narrowed back to BTP.Desktop app,
XLF Translatorflavors, type properties revisedThe flavor rests on the page's "The tool is mainly used to translate ABAP Cloud Content, which is generated using the 'Maintain Translation' app (XLIFF Version 1.2)." The web-tool block's uploads key carries the one sentence the page gives about the file leaving the machine, "After uploading, all fields that have a translation element are available for translation.", verbatim; access is left out because neither the page nor the site's FAQ says what it takes to use the tool. The prose no longer says the file is opened in the browser, which the word "uploading" does not support, no longer treats XLIFF 1.2 as what the tool accepts (the page states the version of the ABAP Cloud content it is mainly used for), and attributes "without installing an additional tool" to the maker. when_not_to_use was "One file per session, translated by hand, field by field", none of which the page states.Web tool,
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