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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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CAP in the age of AI #3 - from MCP to A2ApublishedThe episode that finishes @cap-js/mcp with authorisation and then crosses to agents. @requires and @restrict are the same annotations CAP already has, and the plugin reads them to filter the tool list and the describe output per user and per request, so a model is not told about entities the caller cannot reach — where the OData metadata of the same service lists every exposed entity regardless. The second half annotates a service with @agent from @cap-js/agents, which serves it over A2A with an agent card and a chat preview, runs first against a mocked response and then against SAP AI Core bound with cds bind and a hybrid profile, and reuses the MCP adapter's tools rather than defining new ones.Video,
CAP in the age of AI #6 - vector embeddingspublishedVector embeddings put to work in the incident management sample, answering whether this problem has been seen before. An embedding element of type Vector is calculated and stored from the vector_embedding function, so the database refreshes it whenever the text behind it changes, and cosine_similarity compares it with a freshly embedded string; because a title says little, a scheduled action first summarises each incident's conversation through a model on SAP AI Core and the embedding is taken from that summary. The similar-incidents list is a view joining incidents to themselves, with order and limit set in a before handler on the expanded query, and the vector element excluded from the service, since OData knows nothing about vectors — on SAP HANA Cloud the function is native, while SQLite needs packages added to the project.Video,
CAP in the age of AI #7 - vector embeddings wrap-uppublishedThe same embeddings model taken from SQLite to SAP HANA Cloud, then handed to an agent. Locally it is @cap-js/ai that adds the vector functions SQLite lacks and downloads an all-MiniLM L6v2 ONNX model on first start; on HANA natural language processing has to be switched on, the model name is a mandatory argument, the vectors it returns are 768 dimensions, and dimensions must match on both sides of a comparison. HANA itself can be given SAP AI Core as a remote source for other embedding models, which a CDS.ql expression has to inject because the postfix notation only takes what the CDS model holds, and the hour ends with a search function over cosine similarity exposed over @cap-js/mcp, so an agent asked about low output from solar panels calls semantic search instead of writing the query itself.Video,
SAP S/4HANA Cloud: Scheduling Background Jobs Using Application Job TemplatespublishedWalks through moving S/4HANA Cloud and ABAP Environment job scheduling off ECC's SUBMIT and JOB_OPEN/JOB_SUBMIT/JOB_CLOSE pattern onto the Application Job Framework: a job template built from an ABAP class that implements IF_APJ_DT_EXEC_OBJECT and IF_APJ_RT_EXEC_OBJECT, then scheduled through the Manage Application Job Templates Fiori app or programmatically with CL_APJ_RT_JOB_SCHEDULING_API's SCHEDULE_JOB method. The resulting job is tracked in the Monitor Application Jobs app, where status, logs and failed runs are reviewed.Blog,
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SAP Developers MCPentry revisedNEIGHBOURS §5.1 named the hosted MCP as a companion to index as an artifact, and the graph had no entry for it. ecosystem: umbrella because its content covers SAP technologies across stacks (llms.txt names ABAP Cloud, CAP, Fiori, HANA Cloud and integration) and no single door holds it. No read_only: the anonymous mounts are read-only, but the signed-in tier writes progress (complete_step). No tool_count: the quickstart and the API page list different tools per mount. The site also serves a GraphQL API, not recorded as an interface here for want of a page read. /mcp/homepage is left out of the description: the quickstart lists it as anonymous and the API page as signed-in.MCP server,
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Cloud-Native with ABAP Cloud – The Transactional Outbox PatternpublishedImplements the transactional outbox pattern in ABAP Cloud's background processing framework (bgPF): a RAP business object's save sequence registers a bgPF handler implementing IF_BGMC_OP_SINGLE, and the RAP runtime runs it, and only then emits the message, after the database commit succeeds, so a rolled-back transaction emits nothing. The post walks through the full working example published as SAP-samples/abap-platform-rap-transactional-outbox-with-bgpf.Blog,
abap-adt-apireleased 9.0.01 content item in the atlas was written against an earlier version. Nothing is recorded about what changed.Package,
[Blog Post] SAP Event Mesh - Consuming S4 events simultaneously in CAP-based applications and SAP Integration Suiteexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
052: 10 Minutes from Start to Launchpadexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
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ABAP - Create dumpexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
ABAP + MCP: Let AI Do Real Development in Your SAP Systemexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
ABAP code to wait for the end of "inbound bgRFC type Q" unitsexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code: Patch 1.0.1 releasedexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
ABAP development tools for Visual Studio Code: Version 1.1 releasedexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Agent access to your systemsdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Agentic CAP: Build MCP servers and enterprise AI agentsexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
Agentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA Cloudexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
AI-enabled administration: Automating log analysis with generative AI hubexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
AI-native North Star architecture — Platform Layerexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Reference architecture,
Analyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicesexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Authenticationdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
AWS Mail configuration for SAP ABAP Systemsexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Browsing table datadescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
BTP - Authorization Objectexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
BTP - Restriction Typeexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Building agentic applications with SAP HANA Cloudexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
Building an Attachment Upload and Download Solution Using UploadSetwithTable Controlexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Cachingdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Calculating IBP Technical Week "Key Figure Date" in S/4HANA Using CDS Viewexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Calling a service by handdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Calling Claude from ABAP: How I Wired SAP AI Core into a Real Business Scenarioexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Capturing Background Job Errors in SAP Using the Application Log (SLG0/SLG1)explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Change promotiondescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Claude Code via MCP: Poor man's Joule, or a practical tool?explains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Clean code conventionsdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Cloudification Repository Viewerrequires, connects revisedSAP's Cloudification Repository entered the graph, so the repository this reads is a node rather than a name in a sentence. Both edges rest on the viewer's own documentation: the repository "lists released standard APIs that can be used to build the TIER 1 layer", and the Repository field is a "Selection of the different release statuses that are made available by SAP in different JSON files". No protocol, direction or condition: the documentation states none.Web tool,
Code reviewdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Configure Journal Entry Posting Approval from Store Template in Build Process Automationexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Configuring SAP Cloud Integration for an IBP to S/4HANA (on prem / private cloud) integrationexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Consume ABAP RFC Function Modules in CAPexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Consume Remote Services in a Full-Stack CAP Applicationexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Workshop,
Creating an SAP SD Billing Document Using a BAPI in SAP Build and Accessing It Through 'Joule Work'explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Custom Form with Custom Data Source in SAP Public Cloud (Grow with SAP)explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Data modellingdescription, ecosystems, entry revisedMerged the duplicate ABAP capability into this one, repointed its provides edges, content explains edges and prose links, and retired abap-data-modelling. Its old pages redirect here.Capability,
Database connectorsdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Debugging in ABAP Development Tool (Part 1)explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Document Groundingexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Doc,
Driving the SAP GUIdescription revisedKeep the technology that defines the concern in the default; move implementation detail to framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Event Meshdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Explore SAP Fiori elements for ABAP developersexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
From R/3 ABAP to CAP/Fiori Elements on SAP BTP- Deploymentexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
From R/3 ABAP to CAP/Fiori Elements on SAP Cloudexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
From SEGW and Legacy UI5 to RAP with ARC-1explains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Generating Adobe Form Using RAP framework OData Servicesexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
How I Use AI for Development and Why Context Mattersexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
How to Check Fiori Apps Related Authorization Object Massexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
How to Connect Claude Code to ABAP with Zero-Config MCPexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
How to rename an OData V4 service?explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
How to use SAP Data Intelligence with SAP Cloud Connectorexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
IDE provisioningdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Integrating SAP S/4HANA Invoicing with KSeF Using SAP Event Mesh and CAPexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Introducing ARC-1: A Secure ADT MCP Server for Enterprise SAP Developmentexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Knowledge graph and agent memory: Build an agent that remembersexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
Launchpad pluginsdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.ui5. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Loading a warehousedescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.btp. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Maintaining table entriesdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Merge multiple PDF forms into a single document for download or printing.explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Model visualisationdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Modernizing RFC/BAPI-based Integrations for a Clean Core with SAP Integration Suiteexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
ODatadescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
OData $batch Deleting Records Across Multiple Tables in Single Transactionexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
OData Deep Insert: Implementation and Real-Life Examplesexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
OData to outcomes—Build AI-enabled SAP Fiori apps using SAP Fiori elementsexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
OpenAPIdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Part 3: Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Part2: Architecting Complex Real Life Business Scenario on SAP BTP with ease [ Targeting Multiple backend S/4HANA Systems utilizing Principal Propagation ]explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Patterns for using LLMs in ABAP developmentexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Doc,
Principal Propagation from BTP Web App to S/4HANA via SAP Integration Suiteexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Print Preview from RAP Action with v4 OData and Multiple Selectionexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
RAP - Feature Control (Part 2)explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
RAP - Native File Uploadexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
RAP - Navigation (App to App)explains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Running AI agents against SAP ECC 6.0: lessons from building an in-system MCP serverexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
S/4HANA Observability: Streaming SAP Cloud ALM & LogServ Telemetry to BigQuery & Vertex AIexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
SAP BAIP, ABAP environment: Monitoring and troubleshootingexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
SAP GUI screens and listsdescription revisedKeep the technology that defines the concern in the default; move implementation detail to framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
SAP IAM integration with SAP Cloud Identity Servicesexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Reference architecture,
SAP's API Policy on AI Agents: What It Prohibits, Allows, and Leaves Openexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Scheduling a Background Job for the BDC Session Method Using RSBDCSUBexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Searching code in a systemdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Serve your application over MCPdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Set up the SAP Cloud Connector: Integrating On‑Premise Systems with Cloud Servicesexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Source controlname, description revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Spec first: The disciplined way to develop ABAP with agentsexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
Static analysisdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Step-by-Step Guide to Display System Details on SAP Fiori Launchpad Shellexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Transactional modeldescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Transform your configuration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud with agentic AIexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Talk,
UI written in ABAPdescription revisedKeep the technology that defines the concern in the default; move implementation detail to framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Understanding and Developing Fiori Plugins with Extension API & TypeScriptexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Unit testingdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Capability,
Using Claude for SAP ABAP development on RFC-only / SAProuter systems (even ECC R/3)explains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Using RFC Function Modules and BAPIs in SAP Build Process Automationexplains revisedDoor scope proposed from the title and summary, so a door page lists the piece only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
Why SAP Cloud Identity Matters for SAP Task Center: It’s About Trust and Global User IDexplains revisedDoor scope derived from the artifacts this piece also explains, so a door page lists it only where it holds (docs/concepts/content-on-doors.md).Blog,
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Extending Standard S/4 HANA OData API'spublishedWalks through extending a standard S/4HANA OData API with a custom field, preferring OData V4 over V2 for its closer OASIS compliance and simpler service enablement, then tracing the extensibility objects documented for the entity before touching any code. The custom field reaches the API by layering three CDS view extensions — extendView on I_Product, extendViewEntity on R_ProductTP and on A_Product_3 — following the projection chain down to where the base table is first selected, built in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse.Blog,
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How to Create an Application Job (APJ) in SAP S/4HANA ABAP — With Single Values & Select OptionspublishedWalks through implementing an Application Job end to end on the ABAP door: a class implements IF_APJ_RT_EXEC_OBJECT for runtime execution and IF_APJ_DT_EXEC_OBJECT to define parameters, covering both single-value parameters and select options, then registers the class as a job catalog entry and template in ADT for scheduling through the Application Jobs Fiori app. Frames Application Jobs as the class-based, ADT-defined successor to the classic SM36/SM37 background job transactions.Blog,
How to extend ABAP Test Cockpit on SAP BTP for custom use casespublishedWalks through the released, C1-contract APIs and CDS views for extending ABAP Test Cockpit on SAP BTP: the single entry point CL_SATC_API=>CREATE_API_FACTORY, reading a run's findings and headers through SATC_API_FINDINGS and SATC_API_RESULT_HEADERS, starting synchronous local ATC runs for a transport, approving or rejecting exemptions programmatically, configuring approver responsibility areas without a UI, and implementing a custom check through IF_CI_ATC_CHECK. Code snippets show each API in use, including the CDS views that join ATC results to the Custom Code Migration app's own findings.Blog,
How to Implement SAP Change DocumentpublishedBuilds SAP's Change Document framework on two custom tables, ZZCUSTOMER and ZZCUSTOMER_BANK: creating the Change Document Object in transaction SCDO, then wrapping each INSERT, MODIFY and DELETE on the Z-tables together with a call to the generated WRITE method inside one ABAP class, so both commit in the same Logical Unit of Work. Because the generated method cannot read old values back from the database itself, the class reads them before the update and holds them in memory; a Managed RAP application skips this step by specifying the Change Document Object directly in its Behaviour Definition instead. This is the ABAP side of change tracking: a change document object logs who changed a field, and when, into CDHDR and CDPOS.Blog,
On‑the‑Fly Excel Download in a RAP Fiori App — No Database Table, No Persistence, Pure CDS + ABAPpublishedBuilds a CDS custom entity backed by an ABAP class that implements IF_RAP_QUERY_PROVIDER and assembles an XLSX workbook at request time — hand-built from Open XML parts with cl_abap_zip for multiple sheets, or in one line via cl_salv_table=>to_xml for one — then streams it to the browser through the @Semantics.largeObject annotation. The same annotation makes Fiori annotations render the field as a download link with no backing database table, trading the usual persisted-blob approach to document output for a file rebuilt fresh on every click.Blog,
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Patterns for using LLMs in ABAP developmentpublishedLars Hvam compares eight ABAP development setups: assistance in SE80 or Eclipse, virtual files and MCP over ADT, a centrally managed MCP service, sandboxes, local Git, Git with read-only system context, and temporary ABAP systems for development and CI. The overview describes where source changes, review and system access happen, including abapGit synchronization and abaplint checks. It is dated March 2026; its risk, cost and autonomy ratings are the writer’s assessments.Doc,
abap-offstack-aunitprovides revisedcapability:agent-guidance widened installs_into to the ABAP door and declared system_reach there. The README read on 2026-10-15 names four clients beside its install command and adds "and others", so the four named ones are the value and the open end is not read as a fifth. This is the only entry behind the door that states the third system_reach state, in a sentence of its own: nothing requires a provisioned SAP system. The boundary it states elsewhere, that shimmed-out classes stay an on-stack concern, is the entry's own warning and not a qualification of that value.Skill,
abap-skillsprovides revisedcapability:agent-guidance widened installs_into to the ABAP door. The README read on 2026-10-15 names the five clients the skills command line supports and adds "and other compatible agents", so the five named ones are the value; the README also documents separate routes for Claude Code, OpenCode and GitHub Copilot in VS Code, which name no client the sentence does not. system_reach is left out: the repository states nothing about needing a system or bringing one, and absent is not a no.Skill,
ADT MCP Serverdescription, provides[0] revisedSAP's launch post for the re-invented Joule for Developers points to the ADT MCP Server's available MCP tools in ADT for Eclipse and says the server drives the developer's own coding agent; it does not describe how the server is enabled in Eclipse. The Help page now reads "launches" where the quote said "starts".MCP server,
Agent access to your codeframing by ecosystem revisedBeside Agent access to your systems, the ABAP door read as two names for one thing. This one is about the code, development objects reached through ADT; that one is about business data and operations. The atlas maintainer's decision.Capability,
Agent evalscore coverage, coverage by flavor, facets, gap revisedThe note rested on "everyone" and "nobody", which nothing here sources. The replacement says what the material read on the three doors covers and what it leaves to the project, which is checkable.Capability,
Agent guidancecoverage by ecosystem, framing by ecosystem, facets, coverage by flavor, framing by flavor revisedskillOverflow entered on 2026-09-18, after this flavor was assessed, serves the UI5 door and states no flavor, so by the flavor rule it answers in all of them. Its own skill list names SAPUI5 data binding, custom controls, i18n and testing and nothing about the component library, so it is reported as a fallback rather than read as a community presence here. Saying so is what keeps core-only honest beside the options the page lists.Capability,
ARC-1 Skillsprovides revisedcapability:agent-guidance widened installs_into to the ABAP door and declared system_reach there. The skills README read on 2026-10-15 names each client one at a time in its manual-install table, with a directory per client, which is why each value carries its own row; the plugin routes it documents beside that are for Claude Code and Agent Plugins, and the skills command line it offers states "any agent" rather than a list. system_reach rests on the prerequisite the README already states, which the entry's own warning repeats: the server is required for every skill that touches ABAP, and the reader connects it.Skill,
Authenticationcoverage by ecosystem, facets, framing by ecosystem revisedThe paragraph counted two services while seven entries stand behind the door, the router and the Cloud Connector among them, so it told a reader the door was smaller than it is.Capability,
claude-abap-devprovides revisedcapability:agent-guidance widened installs_into to the ABAP door and declared system_reach there. Both answers were already quoted on this entry: the README calls it a Claude Code plugin and names no other client, and the sentence about detecting servers by tool name is the clearest statement of the third state on this door, since the reader supplies the servers and the skills do not care what they are called. Re-read on 2026-10-15 and unchanged.Skill,
claude-abap-skillsprovides revisedcapability:agent-guidance widened installs_into to the ABAP door and declared system_reach there. The README read on 2026-10-15 lists Claude Code as the first prerequisite and names no other client the plugins install into, so the one value is the whole answer; the AGENTS.md template it ships is for agents that are not Claude and is not an install route the README states. system_reach rests on the sentence the entry's own warning already turned on: there is no connector here, and the reach comes from servers the reader connects.Skill,
Cloud Connectorprovides[capability:authentication] revisedThe edge read as though the connector propagated the user by itself. SAP's own page names three authentication types towards an internal system and says the calling application's destination configuration picks one, and that trust to the cloud entities whose tokens are accepted has to be configured explicitly. The property the BTP door compares on rests on the same sentence.App,
DanKromp/skillOverflowprovides revisedThe entry's own prose said the collection covers UI5 and Fiori work and the edge cited only the total count. The UI5 pass needed to know what that coverage is, because this entry states no flavor and so answers in all of a door's flavors; the two rows name the skills the fallback rests on, which is what the capability's freestyle and web-components readings now cite.Skill,
Fiori annotationscore coverage, coverage by flavor revisedThe door has two flavors and neither was assessed, so both were derived from the options alone. Java reads core-only: the three community providers are cds-plugins @sap/cds loads, and the Java side's own facts are the compiler running under the Maven build and the one hierarchy annotation the Java runtime reads itself.Capability,
LLM integrationcore coverage, coverage by flavor, framing by flavor, facets revisedTwo questions the options here answer differently and the page could not show. Which models an option reaches is the first fact a reader needs, because all but one of the CAP options are clients of SAP AI Core; whether the response can be streamed decides whether a chat surface is possible at all. Both are scoped to cap: the ABAP, UI5 and BTP options were not read for them in this pass.Capability,
Local developmentcore coverage, coverage by flavor, framing by flavor, facets revisedNine options answered this capability with nothing to compare them by, and they are not variants of one tool: the first question a reader has is which part of the local stack an option starts. The two flags separate the hybrid-testing helpers, where cds bind states that only the location of the credentials is stored on the machine and @sang2x/captools states that it writes the resolved VCAP_SERVICES into default-env.json.Capability,
rap-skillsprovides revisedcapability:agent-guidance widened installs_into to the ABAP door and declared system_reach there. The skills are cloned into a Claude Code skills directory and the README names no other client, so the one value is the whole answer. system_reach rests on the README's own sentence about VSP, which the reader downloads and configures with their own SAP credentials: the bridge is named and not supplied.Skill,
SAP Power for Kiroprovides, description revisedThe entry said it is packaged as a Kiro power and not how it gets there or which Kiro it needs; the README read on 2026-10-15 states both.Skill,
sap-basis-opsprovides revisedcapability:agent-guidance widened installs_into to the ABAP door and declared system_reach there. The README read on 2026-10-15 says the repository is a Claude Code plugin marketplace and names no other client. system_reach rests on the sentence the entry's own description already paraphrased, and it is the clearest statement of that state on this door: the shell server is the reader's to supply, and the skills carry no credentials of their own.Skill,
sap-mcp-serverentry revisedHanded over in a chat as one address and written from the repository's own README, read raw. Placed on the ABAP door and on agent access to your systems, the concern split out of MCP servers on 2026-10-09: it reaches into a system you run from outside, as the door's two existing providers of that capability do. The README never says ABAP, so the placement rests on the system it reaches and the protocols it names — Gateway OData services, RFC/BAPI, RFC_READ_TABLE and DDIF_FIELDINFO_GET — rather than on a development model it states. Not umbrella: it names ECC and S/4HANA and reaches them through one stack's own protocols, so a door holds it. No tool_count: the README lists its tools in a table and states no count. No flavors: nothing read states standard ABAP or ABAP Cloud. No compat.runtimes: the server is Python with an optional Node bridge, which that enum cannot say.MCP server,
secondsky/sap-skillslinks, flavors, requires, provides, description revisedThe same correction as description.what_it_solves, on the edge that carries this artifact's answer to the capability, so the two do not state the repository's evidence model differently. The rewording also removes the two em dashes the prose scan reported in this field.Skill,
SuperClaude for SAPprovides revisedcapability:agent-guidance widened installs_into to the ABAP door and declared system_reach there. The README read on 2026-10-15 calls it a Claude Code plugin in its own subtitle and names no other client; the installation steps are documented in a separate file that was not read, which does not change the client. system_reach is the state this entry defines: the server it depends on is installed, configured and connection-tested by its own setup command, which is the fact the entry's own warning about being a stack rather than a component already rests on.Skill,
Telemetrycore coverage, coverage by flavor, framing by flavor, framing by ecosystem, facets revisedThree questions the sources answer differently for the CAP options and that change which one a reader reaches for: which signals it produces, where it can send them, and whether the application has to write code for a signal of its own. Scoped to the CAP door; the ABAP and BTP options were not assessed in this pass.Capability,
Unit testingcore coverage, coverage by flavor revisedTwo staged options state abap-cloud and provide this capability; the gate reads them as providers once this capability is revised.Capability,
Werkbankecosystem revisedThe project homepage describes "A small, curated shelf of MCP servers and SAP development skills." Its own catalog spans ABAP (ARC-1 and ABAP Cloud), CAP (CAP Upgrade), and UI5 skills; the workspace is not specific to one stack. This intake follows the maintainer’s explicit request after the September source sweep passed it over for lacking a workspace capability; that concern now exists as Agent workspaces. The served views describe which users the project-owned install catalog addresses. Werkbank provides the workspace; each selected connector or skill supplies the stack-specific behavior. No SAP implementation capability is attributed to Werkbank itself.Desktop app,
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Capturing Background Job Errors in SAP Using the Application Log (SLG0/SLG1)publishedWalks through ABAP's Application Log framework for recording errors from a background job that has no screen to show them on: defining an Object and Sub-object in SLG0, then building the log in code with BAL_LOG_CREATE, adding a free-text or message-class entry with BAL_LOG_MSG_ADD_FREE_TEXT or BAL_LOG_MSG_ADD, and persisting it with BAL_DB_SAVE so it survives after the job finishes. The worked example is a report inserting student records into a custom table, scheduled via SM36 and reviewed afterwards in SLG1, filtered by the Object and Sub-object that created it.Blog,
Mastering Internal Actions in SAP RAP: Automatic Header Calculation in ABAP CloudpublishedWalks through a sales-order BDEF where an item-level determination triggers a header-only internal action by EML in local mode, so a quantity or price change recalculates the order total and applies a 10% discount above $10,000 without a UI button or external OData call reaching the logic directly. Argues for an internal action over inline determination code on reusability and separation of concerns: a determination decides when logic runs, the action decides what runs, and marking it internal keeps Fiori Elements and external OData clients from invoking it.Blog,
Running AI agents against SAP ECC 6.0: lessons from building an in-system MCP serverpublishedNicolasHernandez recounts building and running, over two years, an MCP server written in plain ABAP behind a single ICF node, for SAP ECC 6.0 and S/4HANA on-premise customers that the ADT MCP Server and SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities do not reach. Authorization runs as the calling user rather than a technical RFC user, a choice forced by a customer security team after an earlier version used a technical RFC user, and a later security review found a display-authority check applied uniformly across every write endpoint. The failure modes that cost the most time sat in RFC connectivity itself: RFC_READ_TABLE's empty-table exception collapsed into a false success, a where-used filter was applied only after the row limit, and BAPI calls treated an empty string and an absent parameter as different, silently wrong inputs.Blog,
Scheduling a Background Job for the BDC Session Method Using RSBDCSUBpublishedWalks through uploading data with GUI_UPLOAD, building a BDC session with BDC_OPEN_GROUP, BDC_INSERT and BDC_CLOSE_GROUP, then scheduling the standard program RSBDCSUB as a background job with JOB_OPEN, SUBMIT ... VIA JOB and JOB_CLOSE so the session processes without manual SM35 intervention. Shows the resulting job's status and spool read back through SM37, the way a reader confirms afterwards that a scheduled job actually ran.Blog,
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Agent access to your codenormative relevance revisedThe policy's agentic provision reaches every server that calls ADT for an agent; it was stated on arc-1 alone and as unsourced prose in several boundaries.Capability,
aibap.mcpdescription revisedThe README's own constraint is now its explicit SAP API Policy relation, quoted.MCP server,
arc-1description revisedThe licensing side is its explicit SAP API Policy relation, sourced to its README; the rest restated what any server in front of ADT is. Removed at the atlas maintainer's request on 2026-10-14.MCP server,
Attachmentscoverage by ecosystem revisedThe five citations and four links to FileUploader.ts and UploadCollection.ts used the organisation the project has left, which now answers only as a redirect. Both files were opened at the new address on 2026-10-14 and carry the sentences quoted here, so every claim and every quote stands as written and only the addresses and their titles moved; the checked dates stay at the day each quote was last read in full.Capability,
Driving the SAP GUInormative relevance revisedThe GUI servers' boundaries each restated the policy in the atlas's own words; it belongs to the concern, sourced to the policy.Capability,
kts982/mcp-sap-guidescription revisedThe policy is now a condition of GUI automation, sourced to the policy itself.MCP server,
LLM integrationcoverage by flavor revisedThe PromptInput page no longer carries the sentence this rested on. Read again on 2026-10-14 it states "The @ui5/webcomponents-ai package is under development and considered experimental - components' APIs are subject to change. Furthermore, the package supports Horizon themes only", with no version marker in it. The since-2.0 claim had no second source, so it goes rather than stand unsourced; the experimental state and the Horizon-only limit stay, in the words the page now uses, which are the words coverage_by_ecosystem.ui5 already quoted. The flavor's own assessment of who provides it was not redone, so assessed_at stands.Capability,
mcp-sap-guidescription revisedThe policy is now a condition of GUI automation, sourced to the policy itself.MCP server,
midasol/sap-mcp-serverdescription revisedThe whole paragraph was the policy, which Agent access to your systems carries as a condition sourced to the policy.MCP server,
sapgui.mcpdescription revisedThe policy is now a condition of GUI automation, sourced to the policy itself.MCP server,
vibing-steampunkdescription revisedThe policy is now a condition of Agent access to your code for ABAP, sourced to the policy itself.MCP server,
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ABAP + MCP: Let AI Do Real Development in Your SAP Systempublishedabap-adt-mcp is an open-source MCP server that gives an AI agent full ABAP development capability over ADT: it searches, reads, edits, activates and unit-tests objects, and runs ATC checks, on a connected S/4HANA Cloud or on-premise system, acting as the signed-in developer. It runs on abap-adt-api, the same REST client Eclipse's own ADT tooling uses, and sits beside SAP's own ADT MCP Server, shipped with ADT for VS Code and Eclipse under a different server key, and marianfoo's abap-docs, a read-only server over the ABAP Keyword Documentation and Clean ABAP. Each destination carries a policy — read-only, allowed packages, denied tables and tools — the server checks before every call, and an optional audit file logs each tool call with its outcome and policy gate.Blog,
How to rename an OData V4 service?publishedRenaming an OData V4 service binding changes its Service Alias and the resulting service URL, breaking any app already deployed against the old one — shown on a /DMO/TRAVEL-based example in the SAP BTP ABAP environment by unpublishing, renaming and republishing the binding, then reading the new URL back from the OData V4 service catalog's ServiceGroups entry. It weighs that against two alternatives: adding a second service definition and publishing it as a new service version under the same binding, or creating an entirely new service definition and binding, which keeps the original URL live during the cutover.Blog,
How to use SAP Data Intelligence with SAP Cloud ConnectorpublishedWalks through reaching an on-premise network from SAP Data Intelligence Cloud with Cloud Connector: installing the client, assigning the Cloud_Connector_Administrator role, registering the subaccount, and mapping on-premise systems as ABAP, HANA or HTTP back-ends in Data Intelligence's Connection Manager. For an ABAP back-end it names the function-module whitelist and the gateway port format RFC access needs, per SAP Note 2835207.Blog,
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A Guide to CDS Metadata Extensions, Fiori App Generation and SAP UI5 Controller ExtensionspublishedWalks through a RAP-based Fiori elements app end to end: layering UI annotations onto a CDS view through a separate ABAP metadata extension object, gated by @Metadata.allowExtensions on the base view and ordered across extensions by a required @Metadata.layer value. Generates the app in SAP Business Application Studio from the published OData V4 service's merged $metadata document, then adds an SAP UI5 controller extension — registered in manifest.json against a Fiori elements lifecycle hook — only for behaviour the annotations cannot express.Blog,
@mcp-abap-adt/corereleased 18.0.0ABAP ADT MCP server published as an npm scope and pluginMCP server,
abap-transport-reviewentry revisedEntered by intake from the repository README and the repository's own facts. Placed on the ABAP door in the standard-abap flavor only, because the README states the tools are classic ABAP using the CTS_REQUEST_CHECK BAdI, background jobs and the cluster table INDX, "none of which is part of ABAP Cloud".App,
Agent access to your systemscore coverage, coverage by ecosystem, description revisedMaintainer requested complementary boundaries so a CAP bridge can connect system access and application MCP exposure, while implementation restrictions remain explicit. Domains, providers and task classifications are unchanged.Capability,
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Knowing the maintenance status of a releaseentry revisedDrafted with sap-support-radar and pam-mcp-server, the first umbrella artifacts (ADR-0063), which had no concern to attach to: mcp-servers is serving an application one built, agent-systems-access reaches into a running SAP system, and documentation is first-party docs made searchable. On the ABAP, CAP and UI5 doors because each has a published SAP answer of its own: the Product Availability Matrix, capire's release schedule and the SAPUI5 version overview. BTP is left out: its services name plans and regions rather than releases, and no page was read that states a maintenance period for one. core-only on every door because SAP publishes the answer and no door holds an option of its own; the umbrella entries count into no door's coverage by construction.Capability,
pam-mcp-serverentry revisedStaged as its own entry beside the app (ADR-0063, two entries) because an agent reaches for the server and a person opens the app. part_of rests on the README's project layout. ecosystem: umbrella and serves_ecosystems: abap for the same reasons as the app: it reads the same matrix, and its documentation's worked example queries SAP S/4HANA 2022 and SAP NetWeaver 7.5. No tool_count: the README lists three tools and states no count. Its package is private and not on npm.MCP server,
SAP Support Radarentry revisedStaged with the capability Knowing the maintenance status of a release and the external SAP Product Availability Matrix. ecosystem: umbrella (ADR-0063) because its documentation is about SAP products as such and names no single stack it serves: "Check the support/maintenance status of the SAP products and versions you actually use against the official SAP Product Availability Matrix (PAM)". OpenUI5 is what it is built with, not whom it serves. serves_ecosystems: abap because the releases its documentation checks are SAP S/4HANA and SAP NetWeaver, as in the worked example in docs/mcp-server.md ("SAP S/4HANA 2022 On-Premise", "SAP NetWeaver 7.5"). use_as: reference because it is consulted at its own address. The README names no contributors besides the maintainer. Named SAP Support Radar, the title the maker gives it in the README, by the maintainer's decision on 2026-10-12; serves_ecosystems: abap confirmed by the maintainer the same day.Web tool,
Serve your application over MCPcore coverage, coverage by ecosystem, core coverage, description, facets revisedThe comparison separates exposed contracts, context mechanisms, execution paths and surface selection; provider explanations retain conditions and restrictions. The capability definition and all nine provider conversions must be published together; accepting only the vocabulary leaves legacy provider strings incompatible.Capability,
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Agent-led custom code migration: From planning to mass adaptationpublishedThe Custom Code Migration Agent in SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities, applied to moving custom code from SAP ERP Central Component to SAP Cloud ERP Private: the abstract describes a toolchain that starts with planning in SAP Cloud ALM and ends in mass remediation by the agent, with newer custom code management features shown alongside. Which findings the agent remediates, and how far it goes without a developer, the abstract does not say. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Marco Matha and Olga Dolinskaja, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Agentic CAP: Build MCP servers and enterprise AI agentspublishedCAP applications become AI agents over the Model Context Protocol and the Agent2Agent protocol, which is the serve your application over MCP concern, and SAP AI Core is the LLM integration through which AI is embedded in a CAP app, with recommendations from the SAP-RPT-1 model as the abstract's example. The abstract names the two protocols and the one model and does not say which packages carry them. A two-hour TechEd 2026 session in a hands-on room (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Daniel Hutzel, Daniel Schlachter, Marc Huber and Sami Lechner, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Agentic memory: Knowledge graph engine and recall in SAP HANA CloudpublishedThe knowledge graph engine in SAP HANA Cloud as an agent's memory: what the engine, the graph side of graph, spatial and document data, does in an agentic workflow, how an agent keeps what it learns there, the state agent tooling holds between turns, and the SAP AI Core integration through which the database calls LLMs and tabular foundation models such as SAP-RPT-1. The abstract names the engine, the memory role and the AI Core link and does not say how the memory is written or read. DA263 on Wednesday 28 October is a two-hour hands-on on the same engine with a different cast. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Markus Fath and Shraddha Shetty, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
AI-enabled administration: Automating log analysis with generative AI hubpublishedA log analysis tool for incident work, built in SAP Business Application Studio with the generative AI hub feature, which SAP AI Core ships as its LLM integration by its own documentation: it automates root-cause analysis over system errors and masks sensitive data. SAP's abstract states the tool's jobs and not how the hub is called, what the masking covers or which model answers. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), with no speaker listed in the catalogue at the time of writing, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
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AI-first, API-first: What changes when AI becomes the userpublishedWhat changes in an architecture when an AI agent is the caller: AI-first and API-first principles, SAP's API governance, extensibility and the composable enterprise, with lessons the speaker draws from SAP's and other enterprise AI initiatives. The extensibility edge rests on the abstract naming extensibility as a principle and nothing more specific; no API, product or tool is named, so the talk is attached to the broadest concern it touches. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Tomasz Wilk, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Analyze and optimize ABAP Cloud model apps built on core data servicespublishedPerformance anti-patterns in data models built with ABAP CDS under ABAP Cloud applications, and the tools that find them: the abstract names ABAP cross trace, the SQL analyzer (PlanViz) in Visual Studio Code and the SAP HANA database explorer as what the session uses to follow a bottleneck from the application to the database. The anti-patterns are taken from real business applications, which is where the data modelling edge holds; which ones are shown is not in the abstract. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Ingo Braeuninger, Robert Werlich, Steffen Siegmund and Thomas Fiedler, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Behind the Autonomous Enterprise: SAP Knowledge Graph and SAP Domain ModelspublishedThe strategy behind SAP Business AI's intelligence layer: SAP Knowledge Graph for enterprise context, SAP Domain Models for SAP-specific expertise and tabular AI for predictions, unified on SAP AI Core with SAP Document AI. Knowledge Graph and Domain Models are not atlas entries, so the edges rest on the two products the abstract names as the infrastructure and on Predictive models for the tabular AI; nothing is stated about what any of them does in the layer. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also ST103V, virtual), presented by Jan Portisch and Richard Grandpierre, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Build agentic SAP extensions with Google CloudpublishedGoogle Cloud's architectures for agentic AI apps on SAP with a clean core: SAP Business AI Platform, SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Data Cloud joined with BigQuery, Gemini and Google's Agent Development Kit. The abstract names zero-copy data agents, developer API workflows and ABAP extensions for AI integration, the last of which is the Extensibility concern; Business Data Cloud is the one atlas entry it names, and how any piece connects to another is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Ekaterina Kruse, Ian Moria and Stany Winkler, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Build AI agents and applications natively on SAP HANA CloudpublishedSAP HANA Cloud as the base for agentic applications on SAP Business AI Platform: the session goes through CAP, the SAP HANA Cloud vector engine and SAP AI Core, with architecture patterns and lessons learned from building AI-supported applications. SAP's abstract names the three parts of that stack and the vector engine as the database's feature in it, and describes none of the patterns. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also DA113V, virtual), presented by Christoph Morgen and Shraddha Shetty, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Build business differentiation with SAP AI CorepublishedSAP AI Core as the orchestration layer for enterprise AI, worked through with SAP's engineers: extend Joule Agents with models from its library, ground them in SAP Business Data Cloud products, embed them in SAP S/4HANA flows, then govern, scale and monitor them from prototype to production. The abstract says what the layer does for an agent and not which services carry each step. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by David Knaack, Franziska Dobrigkeit, Hadi Hares and Jonas Israel, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Building agentic applications with SAP HANA CloudpublishedA CAP application extended with semantic search and agent features on top of SAP HANA Cloud's vector engine and SAP AI Core, built in a hands-on workshop. The abstract names the parts, CAP, the vector engine and AI Core, and the two additions: semantic search, the retrieval half of retrieval-augmented generation, and LLM-supported agent capabilities inside the application, which is agent tooling. Which embedding model, which CAP runtime and how the agent calls its tools are not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Hui Li, Ritty Joseph, Shraddha Shetty and Tanuja Jadhav, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Deploy, review, break, fix: Govern cloud transports with agility and AIpublishedFive BTP services in one delivery chain, as the abstract lays it out: a transport is triggered in SAP Content Agent Service, tested in SAP Cloud Transport Management, its failure is raised by SAP Alert Notification service for SAP BTP and remediated by a SAP Joule agent with SAP Automation Pilot, and SAP Cloud Logging keeps the history for root-cause analysis. The chain from alert to remediation is the operations automation concern; what the Joule agent decides on its own is not in the abstract. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Biser Simeonov, Daniel Funkert, Sven Rullmann and Thorsten Sandfuchs, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Enriching AI models with SAP AI Core in SAP Business Data CloudpublishedThe integration between SAP Business Data Cloud and SAP AI Core, through which data products with their semantics feed AI models for benchmarking, custom AI development and agentic analytics and applications. The abstract names the two products and the three uses and states nothing about how the data reaches AI Core or what the integration consists of. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by San Tran and Sandy Tran, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Explore SAP Fiori elements for ABAP developerspublishedSAP Fiori elements for an ABAP developer who now builds the UI as well as the RAP business object behind it, the transactional model of ABAP Cloud, in SAP Business Application Studio; the abstract calls the UI side new territory for that developer, and a Fiori elements app is rendered from the service's Fiori annotations rather than hand-written UI code. The abstract names the tool and the stack and does not say which floorplan or annotations are shown. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Björn Schulz, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Extending SAP Autonomous SuitepublishedExtensibility across SAP Autonomous Suite: AI-enabled development in SAP Build solutions, the ABAP Cloud model among them, as the way extensions are designed, generated and deployed, and a direction for making extensions ready for agentic AI. The abstract names the suite, SAP Build and the ABAP Cloud model and no single feature, so the edges are to Extensibility, the concern, and to SAP Build Code, the SAP Build solution held here in which Joule generates and deploys development; which other SAP Build solutions the session shows is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Alexander Rother and Khaled MUSILHY, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
From intent to extension: Joule and the future of solution extensibilitypublishedHow Joule turns natural-language intent into extensions across SAP Autonomous Suite: intent-based agent extensions, enriching the agents SAP delivers, packaging options for partners and what SAP calls a harmonised extensibility experience. The edges are to SAP Joule, which does the translating, and to Extensibility, the concern; the abstract names the directions and no feature that ships today. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Amitha Kamath, Oren Shatil and Richard Kuba, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Joule and SAP Knowledge Graph: Context-aware AI across SAP solutionspublishedThe catalogue carries RA107's abstract under this title, and what it describes is SAP AI Core as the management and orchestration layer of an AI architecture: extending Joule Agents in SAP Joule, the model library in Joule Studio for contextual reasoning, connecting data products from SAP Business Data Cloud, and embedding AI in SAP S/4HANA. The SAP Knowledge Graph the title names does not appear in that text, so the edges rest on the abstract as published, and whether the session follows the title or the abstract is not known until it is recorded. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also RA110V, virtual), presented by Jan Portisch and Pavithra G K, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Knowledge graph and agent memory: Build an agent that rememberspublishedThe knowledge graph engine in SAP HANA Cloud as an agent's memory: what the engine, the graph side of graph, spatial and document data, does in an agentic workflow, how an agent keeps what it learns there, the state agent tooling holds between turns, and the SAP AI Core integration through which the database calls LLMs and tabular foundation models such as SAP-RPT-1. The abstract names the engine, the memory role and the AI Core link and does not say how the memory is written or read. DA205 on Tuesday 27 October is the 45-minute talk on the same engine, with a near-identical abstract and a different cast. A two-hour hands-on TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Christoph Morgen, Jan Zwickel, Markus Fath and Thomas Hammer, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Level up app development: ABAP Cloud model innovations and Joule solutionpublishedThe ABAP RESTful application programming model, in SAP's abstract, generates multi-node business objects and adds event-driven side effects, collaborative draft, background processing and analytical tables, with the SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities add-on used to speed development up. The generated business objects are the transactional model concern; the abstract names each feature and says nothing about how it is used. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Anne Keller, Carine Tchoutouo Djomo, Frank Jentsch and Marina Blank, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Migrate and modernize your custom code using RISE with SAP and agentic AIpublishedThe Custom Code Migration Agent in SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities, shown on the RISE with SAP path that moves custom extensions from SAP ERP Central Component to SAP Cloud ERP Private: the abstract says the agent adapts the code through MCP tools and the AI for ABAP features in the custom code tools, and that the adapted code is then reworked along the clean core approach, the concern ABAP Cloud readiness covers. Which MCP tools, and what the clean core step changes in the code, the abstract leaves open. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Hitesh Bindal, Ingo Braeuninger, Jonas Helin of GitHub, Olga Dolinskaja and Thomas Fiedler, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Navigating the road map for SAP Cloud ERP: Today, next, and beyondpublishedSAP's near-term and long-term plans for SAP Cloud ERP by theme: embedded AI, process automation, lifecycle management and extensibility, with timelines and adoption paths toward what SAP calls the Autonomous Enterprise. SAP Cloud ERP has no artifact here, so the edges are to the two concerns the road map names, Extensibility and Process automation; the abstract names no product or feature under either, and whether its process automation is SAP Build Process Automation is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also TM815V, virtual), presented by Lawrence Martin and Sasa Markovic, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
OData to outcomes—Build AI-enabled SAP Fiori apps using SAP Fiori elementspublishedA Fiori elements app built through SAP's MCP servers: the OData V4 service comes from the MCP server for RAP, which the atlas holds as the ADT MCP Server, or from @cap-js/mcp-server for CAP, and the UI from @sap-ux/fiori-mcp-server, with annotations and actions added before the app is tied to SAP's AI features. Agent access to your code on both the service and the UI side; SAP's abstract names the servers and the steps and says nothing about which AI features or which agent host. A TechEd 2026 session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Benedikt Schoelch, Sebastian Steinhauer, Sebastian Werner and Stefan Engelhardt, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Rethinking security for modern SAP solution landscapespublishedWhere risk goes when clean core moves custom logic out of SAP S/4HANA: into integration flows, CAP extensions, ABAP Cloud code and platform configuration, told through real attack stories, then scanning code, modelling attack paths, adding security gates to CI/CD pipelines and automating safely with Terraform. The scanning edge is to static analysis, the atlas's concern for security findings in ABAP code; the abstract lists the four surfaces and the four practices and describes none of them. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Tsovinar Chugaszyan, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
SAP AI Core deep dive: Models, agents, and business context at scalepublishedSAP AI Core read as the management and orchestration layer of an AI architecture, beyond the model runtime: SAP's abstract lists extending Joule Agents, the model library in Joule Studio for contextual reasoning, connecting data products from SAP Business Data Cloud, and embedding AI in SAP S/4HANA. It names the connections and not the APIs behind them. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also RA107V, virtual), presented by Franziska Dobrigkeit and Hadi Hares, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
SAP BAIP, ABAP environment: Monitoring and troubleshootingpublishedMonitoring and troubleshooting a side-by-side application written in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP BTP ABAP environment, which SAP's title calls SAP BAIP, ABAP environment, and which the abstract files under a clean core strategy at level A: the environment's technical monitoring tools for the monitoring half, and ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse for the troubleshooting half, the debugging concern. The abstract names the environment and the Eclipse tools, leaves the monitoring tools unnamed, and does not say what is shown of either. A TechEd 2026 hands-on session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Frank Jentsch, Robert Werlich, Steffen Siegmund and Wolfgang Woehrle, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
SAP Event Mesh: S4 HANA On-Prem and SAP CI(BTP IS) through WebSocket and WebhookspublishedA step-by-step walkthrough of wiring Event Mesh to publish and consume events between an on-premise S/4HANA system and Cloud Integration, contrasting persistent queues (one subscriber, kept until consumed) against unpersisted topics, and WebSocket's AMQP transport against webhook delivery for the same queue. Two tested findings support it: a queue consumer running in continuous consumption mode receives a message ahead of a webhook on the same topic, and a message stays queued and is retried (almost 8770 times in under a minute, in the author's test) until the consumer processes it successfully.Blog,
SAP Joule for Consultants: Unified knowledge for requirements and designspublishedFit-to-standard analysis as a consultant on a cloud transformation project: connecting an organisation's data to SAP Joule for Consultants through SAP AI Core, getting answers from SAP knowledge and that content, then building an expert, loading project files and running guided prompts. The edges are to SAP Joule, of which Joule for Consultants is a part, and to SAP AI Core, named as the connection path; how the data is grounded is left to the session. A TechEd 2026 hands-on session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Anantharaman Ravi, Natalie Han, Sachin Kaura and Yi Hsuan Lin, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
SAP-RPT and TabPFN: Get started with tabular foundation modelspublishedTabular foundation models, SAP-RPT and TabPFN, in a hands-on with SAP and Prior Labs: the model families first, then predictions run through SAP AI Core with a workflow built on tabular orchestration and connected to the participant's own data for real-time predictions. A predictive models session with the models as the subject; the abstract does not name the SDK or API the workflow is built with. A TechEd 2026 hands-on session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Eliott Kalfon, Janick Zaehringer-Frasch, Johannes Hoehne, Katharina Schell, Nilay Mehta and Sherene Tan, written here from SAP's abstract; no recording is announced.Talk,
Ship your own sandboxed AI operations agent to Kyma in two hourspublishedAn operations agent built and then broken on purpose: the abstract has participants deploy a reasoning agent to SAP BTP, Kyma runtime, connect it to SAP AI Core, give it observability over the runtime and cause a failure for it to diagnose, the operations automation concern with an agent doing the diagnosis. Patterns for cost control and monitoring are promised at the end; the agent framework and how the sandbox is drawn are not named. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin, two hours), presented by Christian Lechner, Piotr Tesny, Thorsten Sandfuchs and Vipin VijayKumar, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Spec first: The disciplined way to develop ABAP with agentspublishedSpec-driven ABAP development with a new AWS Toolkit for Eclipse plug-in powered by Kiro, in SAP's words, working inside ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse: SAP's abstract says it reads the codebase, helps with new features, explains legacy code, refactors and generates tests, for S/4HANA modernisation or a new business feature. It answers agent access to your code from inside Eclipse; the plug-in itself is not yet in the atlas, and the abstract does not say how it reaches the ABAP system. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin), presented by Jon Friesen and Stephan Kremer, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Strategy for agent-led development in ABAPpublishedSAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilities moving ABAP development in ADT from AI-assisted to agent-led, across greenfield work and the migration and modernisation of existing solutions: SAP's strategy session for its ABAP AI add-on. The abstract states the direction and names no feature or release date. A TechEd 2026 session (Tuesday 27 October, Berlin; also ST124V, virtual), presented by Alexander Rother and Sonja Lienard, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
The journey with clean core continues for SAP Cloud ERP PrivatepublishedClean core in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition as it stands in 2026: what is new in extensibility, new capabilities in the dashboard for the RISE with SAP Methodology, how AI helps make custom code compliant with clean core, and new guidance on data, integration and clean core in relation to SAP's API policy. The edges are to Extensibility, the concern the session is about, and to ABAP Cloud readiness, the concern behind making custom code compliant; the abstract names no tool for either and the dashboard is not held here. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin; also TM108V, virtual), presented by Markus Goebel and Olga Dolinskaja, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Transform your configuration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud with agentic AIpublishedThe Configuration Assistant for SAP Cloud ERP, hands-on: an agent that validates insights from an organisation's data and maps toward a target business configuration, under the heading of agentic data management, with data preparation, transparency and governance as the stated aims. The atlas holds no entry for the Configuration Assistant and no concern for business configuration of an ERP, so the edge is to Agent access to your systems, the nearest concern, an agent working on a system's data and configuration; the abstract's configuration is not the per-environment application settings the atlas files under that word. The abstract is the same text as TM100 and states aims and no exercise detail. A TechEd 2026 hands-on session (Thursday 29 October, Berlin), presented by Felix Peter, Joerg Rupprecht, Joerg Singler and Simone Mundt, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
Use change and deployment management in an ABAP environment with confidencepublishedSAP Cloud Transport Management with SAP Cloud ALM as the governed way to move changes from a cloud-optimised ABAP environment into production: the abstract says the session sets out the process, where it differs from classic transport mechanisms, the current state of every content type it carries, and an outlook on deploying agents through it, which is the transport management concern on the cloud side. What each content type covers, and when agent deployment arrives, is not stated. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Moritz Gysler and Sven Rullmann, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
WebSocket RFC to Cloud Using SAP Business ConnectorpublishedWalks through wiring RFC connectivity between an on-premise ABAP system and a cloud ABAP system (SAP S/4HANA Cloud or Steampunk) through SAP Business Connector, which tunnels classic RFC over a WebSocket/HTTPS connection past firewalls. Covers the RFC destination of type T on the source system, the Communication User, Communication Scenario and Communication Arrangement needed on the cloud side to allow-list the function modules being called, and the three configuration steps on the Business Connector itself, closing with a list of common connection errors and their fixes.Blog,
What's next in extensibility for SAP Autonomous SuitepublishedAgent-driven extensibility across SAP Autonomous Suite as SAP sees it ahead: what is coming for making extensions ready for agentic AI and how SAP's assistants are meant to help with it. The edge is to Extensibility, the concern; the abstract names no assistant, no feature and no date. A TechEd 2026 session (Wednesday 28 October, Berlin), presented by Alexander Rother and Oren Shatil, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Talk,
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A Natural Choice: SAP AIF can now expose events to Advanced Event Mesh to power your EDApublishedAnnounces AIFAEM, a new software component of SAP Application Interface Framework that lets SAP ECC and older SAP S/4HANA backends create custom events from BOR objects and IDocs, in CloudEvents format, and publish them to SAP Integration Suite, advanced event mesh — closing the gap for backends that predate S/4HANA's own RAP-based standard events. It ships as the ABAP add-on AIFAEM731 (SAP NetWeaver 7.31, i.e. ECC) or AIFAEM800 (NetWeaver 7.55 and later), and its usage is included in an advanced event mesh subscription.Blog,
Communicate from a Java Application to ABAP via WebSocket RFC using JCo - Migration GuidepublishedWalks a JCo setup from classic CPIC-based RFC to WebSocket RFC: swap the application- or message-server logon properties for jco.client.wshost and jco.client.wsport, and implement DestinationDataProvider's getSSLContext (and, for mTLS, getClientCertificate) since the new connection runs over TLS. It covers building the PKI trust on both sides — a local PKCS12 keystore for the Java side, STRUST's SSL-Server Standard certificate exported and imported for mutual trust on the ABAP side — and notes that on BTP, JCo paired with the Destination service already implements this via the Connectivity service, so the custom SSLContext work can be skipped there.Blog,
How to mass upload from a spreadsheet file into an SAP Fiori app in SAP BTP ABAP Environment Part 1publishedPart 1 of a three-part series on mass-uploading records from a spreadsheet into a RAP business object in the SAP BTP ABAP environment, using the XCO XLSX module to parse an uploaded Excel file without any open-source library. It reads a named worksheet by its column-and-row coordinates into an internal table through the row-stream operation, then creates or updates records with the EML MODIFY ENTITIES statement, and reserves the Fiori elements custom-action wiring and the download/template generation for Parts 2 and 3.Blog,
Recommendations for Customers on using the Direct Push-Based IntegrationpublishedExplains SAP's direct push-based integration, where two ABAP systems (SAP BTP ABAP environment, SAP S/4HANA Cloud or SAP S/4HANA on-premise) exchange business events by calling each other over RFC connectivity, carried over CPI-C or WebSocket depending on the release, through a sender channel on one side and a matching receiver channel on the other that lists which events it wants. It recommends the mechanism only between systems in the same location or subaccount, without public exposure, and for prototyping event-driven scenarios before moving to Event Mesh or SAP Integration Suite, Advanced Event Mesh at a larger scale.Blog,
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SAP: Email Functionality in SAP with a Custom Function ModulepublishedA custom ABAP function module, ZFM_SEND_EMAIL, sends mail through Business Communication Services' CL_BCS and CL_DOCUMENT_BCS classes, adding TO/CC/BCC recipients and multiple attachments by building the HTML document in application code on top of what CL_BCS delivers, which is how ABAP's notifications capability describes mail going out. The send sits in a TRY structure whose three CATCH blocks for CL_BCS's class-based exceptions are empty, so what reaches the caller is a BAPIRET2 table that BAPI_MESSAGE_GETDETAIL fills on the paths without an exception: no recipients given, sent to all, or not sent. That conversion into a caller-facing message table is what ABAP's error handling capability leaves to the application.Blog,
Unleashing ABAP Potential: An introduction to Extension Libraries (XCO)publishedIntroduces ABAP's Extension Libraries (XCO), a library framework that puts reusable functionality behind one interface. The post places it as part of the ABAP RESTful Application Programming Model but versatile enough for other ABAP contexts, and says it works in both on-premise ABAP and the ABAP environment on SAP Business Technology Platform. It walks through a worked Logging example: xco_log=>factory->create_new_log opens a log keyed by object, subobject and external ID, logger->add_message appends a typed message, and logger->add_last_symsg attaches a problem class and level of detail for later traceability.Blog,
abap-offstack-aunitentry revisedIn the SAP AI Skills Library registry snapshot since the baseline of 2026-09-18 and never drafted; the registry record for skills/abap-offstack-aunit changed before the 2026-10-09 check, so it enters as a new entry rather than a revision. Written from the repository's own README; hard rule 7: skills are indexed, never authored here. The registry's skillspector scan is its own dated claim and is not carried as a field.Skill,
abap-skillsentry revisedA repository the SAP AI Skills Library collection cache carries as processedBy baseline-2026-09-18 and that was never drafted into the atlas, so the changed registry record of 2026-10-09 is the first occasion to enter it; first_seen keeps the baseline date and no revises flag applies, since there is no published entry to revise. Written from the repository's README, its SKILLS_INDEX.md, the skills directory listing and the abap-cloud SKILL.md; hard rule 7: skills are indexed, never authored here.Skill,
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Agent access to your systemsentry revisedSplit out of MCP servers at the maintainer's decision. That capability named a protocol and carried two concerns: exposing what you built to agents, which stays there under a name that says so, and giving agents a way into an SAP system you run, which is this one. Thirty providers moved with their own sentences; the Commerce and SuccessFactors slots moved with them. Named beside agent access to your code, its development-time sibling.Capability,
Agent guidanceecosystems revisedSAP Commerce opened as a product door (docs/concepts/product-doors.md, ADR-0033) and sap-commerce-skill entered behind it with no tile to sit under. Packaged knowledge for the Commerce type system, service layer, ImpEx and OCC API is the same concern the node already holds on four doors, so the key was added rather than the capability forked.Capability,
AI-native North Star architecture — Platform Layerparts revisedFilled from SAP's own pages at the maintainer's request (docs/concepts/product-doors.md was the occasion; the AI-native door reads these designs). Every part names what the graph holds; what it lacks is listed as candidates in the curation note.Reference architecture,
btp-sap-odata-to-mcp-serverprovides revisedThe concern it answers is reaching into an SAP system from outside, split out of MCP servers on this day; the sentence on the edge is unchanged.MCP server,
midasol/sap-mcp-serverprovides revisedThe concern it answers is reaching into an SAP system from outside, split out of MCP servers on this day; the sentence on the edge is unchanged.MCP server,
odata_mcpprovides revisedThe concern it answers is reaching into an SAP system from outside, split out of MCP servers on this day; the sentence on the edge is unchanged.MCP server,
odata_mcp_goprovides revisedThe concern it answers is reaching into an SAP system from outside, split out of MCP servers on this day; the sentence on the edge is unchanged.MCP server,
pyrfc-mcpprovides revisedThe concern it answers is reaching into an SAP system from outside, split out of MCP servers on this day; the sentence on the edge is unchanged.MCP server,
sap-security-mcpprovides revisedThe concern it answers is reaching into an SAP system from outside, split out of MCP servers on this day; the sentence on the edge is unchanged.MCP server,
sapskillsentry revisedIn the SAP AI Skills Library registry snapshot since the baseline of 2026-09-18 and never drafted; the registry record for skills/clean-abap changed before the 2026-10-09 check, so it enters as a new entry rather than a revision. Represented once at repository level, as skillOverflow is: the registry registers one skill, clean-abap, while the repository documents and installs three, so the repository's count is used for the entry and both remain in the crawl record. Written from the repository's own README; hard rule 7: skills are indexed, never authored here.Skill,
Serve your application over MCPecosystems, name revisedThe Commerce and SuccessFactors providers reach into a system from outside and moved to agent access to your systems with their slots.Capability,
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Basic code's of ABAPpublishedNine standalone ABAP reports built around REUSE_ALV_GRID_DISPLAY and CL_SALV_TABLE, covering display, screen validation, spool creation, Excel upload and table maintenance without SM30. One report raises and catches a custom exception class with RAISE EXCEPTION and TRY/CATCH, the class-based mechanism error handling names for ABAP; another submits a job to spool, converts it to PDF with CONVERT_ABAPSPOOLJOB_2_PDF and exports a CL_SALV_TABLE result to Excel before mailing both, producing document output from spool rather than Form Builder.Blog,
claude-abap-deventry revisedHanded over as a URL in a chat session and written from the repository's own README. Hard rule 7: skills are indexed, never authored here, and the guardrails are reported as the maintainer states them rather than as anything the atlas has run. when_not_to_use and to_build_on_it are left for an editor.Skill,
sap-ai-dev-toolkitdescription, provides, requires, connects, type properties revisedRe-read against the README, tools.md and inventory.md at 0.9.3, published the same day; the entry was written on 2026-10-01 against 0.7.9, and npm records 41 releases in the eleven days since 0.2.5. Three cited sentences no longer exist in the source: the feature row now reads "Discover BAS destinations or local SAP GUI systems", the architecture flow now names "VSP + configured route (BAS, CF, or local SAP GUI)", and the row quoted for authentication ("No credentials in mcp.json") has become "Credential-aware setup", which states the BAS and local halves separately. So Business Application Studio is now a conditional requirement rather than an unconditional one, and the single destination authentication mode is joined by the local ones the README documents. The fourteen facets, the curated ADT surface and every other guardrail quote were re-verified unchanged.MCP server,
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Connecting SAP S/4HANA On-Prem Directly to Advanced Event Mesh using Cloud Connector - finally!publishedPackage Integration 1.4.0 for the Advanced Event Mesh Adapter adds official support for routing through SAP Cloud Connector, so an on-premise SAP S/4HANA system can produce events that SAP Advanced Event Mesh distributes without exposing a public endpoint. The same release changes the adapter's default acknowledgment mode from Automatic Immediate to Automatic On Exchange Complete, altering delivery semantics and error handling. The release notes warn against mixing proxy configurations within one tenant, since that causes unpredictable routing in complex hybrid tenants.Blog,
@mcp-abap-adt/corereleased 17.0.0ABAP ADT MCP server published as an npm scope and pluginMCP server,
fr0ster/mcp-abap-adtreleased 17.0.0Setups against a system with a self-signed or company-CA certificate that worked without any TLS setting.MCP server,
ABAP-PRCentry revisedEntered by intake from the repository README, the repository description and the maintainer's landing page.Package,
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Async processingcoverage by flavor revisedABAP-PRC is the first option here to state ABAP Cloud: its README says the framework core is written in ABAP for Cloud Development on released APIs, and it runs its steps through the background processing framework or as application jobs. The paragraph on SAP's own mechanisms is unchanged and keeps its 2026-09-14 assessment date; no survey of the other providers was made. Its README lists SAP BTP ABAP Environment and S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition as coming soon, and its Fiori apps are classic BSP objects.Capability,
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BEHAVIOR_ILLEGAL_STATEMENT dump | Technical workaroundspublishedThe BEHAVIOR_ILLEGAL_STATEMENT dump fires in SAP RAP when an explicit COMMIT WORK or ROLLBACK WORK, or a direct database write, collides with RAP's own transactional model: a Logical Unit of Work split into an interaction phase, where changes sit in a transactional buffer, and a save sequence that validates and persists them. The post then names four ways to move the offending statement into a separate task instead — the Background Processing Framework, parallel processing, Application Jobs, or, on-premise only, a wrapper RFC function module called with DESTINATION 'NONE' — pointing to further reading for each rather than working through any of them here.Blog,
BO Interface APIs : An alternative to BAPIs and traditional FMspublishedWalks through updating an S/4HANA Purchase Order's line items through a released BO interface instead of a BAPI, using EML against the underlying CDS entity and a COMMIT ENTITIES statement because the call sits outside a behavior class. Argues the BO interface route avoids a RAP behavior class's restriction against calling COMMIT WORK directly, and covers finding a released interface's CRUD operations on api.sap.com and extending the same approach to a custom field or a custom RAP-based Fiori app's own BO.Blog,
Clean Core IndexpublishedDescribes a company-built KPI, the Clean Core Index, that scores existing custom ABAP code by object type — reports, function modules, SAPScript/Smartforms, ATC S/4 readiness-check findings, user exits and modifications — each weighted by a severity the author sets for redesign effort and upgrade risk, with counts read off CDS views built for the purpose. The index is the author's own definition rather than an official one and does not by itself certify public-cloud readiness, but tracking it weekly shows where custom code still blocks a move to ABAP Cloud and lets progress be read per module or per object type.Blog,
Merge multiple PDF forms into a single document for download or printing.publishedFaced with bundling several Adobe-Forms-generated PDFs into one file, where FP_JOB_OPEN could not handle the parameters a bundled FP_GET_PDF_TABLE output needed and the forms themselves could not be changed, the author merges the individual PDFs at runtime with the CL_RSPO_PDF_MERGE class instead. Walks through opening the spool job with FP_JOB_OPEN, generating each form via its FP_FUNCTION_MODULE_NAME-resolved function module, adding each result's xstring to the merger with add_document, then calling merge_documents and converting the result for GUI_DOWNLOAD or printing.Blog,
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Set up the SAP Cloud Connector: Integrating On‑Premise Systems with Cloud ServicespublishedA step-by-step walkthrough of installing Cloud Connector, adding a subaccount, managing identity and trust certificates in STRUST, and mapping cloud-to-on-premise paths for an SAP HANA backend. It ends by creating a Destinations entry in SAP BTP with proxy type OnPremise and basic authentication, then testing it from SAP Business Application Studio.Blog,
Step-by-Step Guide to Display System Details on SAP Fiori Launchpad ShellpublishedA step-by-step build of a plugin for the SAP Fiori launchpad shell that shows the system ID and client on every app it hosts: an OData service modelled in SAP Gateway Service Builder (SEGW), its GetEntitySet method redefined to call the function module RSAPI_CTC_GET_SYSTEM_DETAILS, then consumed from a project in SAP Business Application Studio with the Component.js and manifest.json changes a shell plugin needs instead of a standalone app. It covers the registration step a plugin needs beyond a normal Fiori app: a Catalog and Target Mapping with Semantic Object Shell and Action Plugin, deployed on-premise and assigned to roles.Blog,
arc-1description revisedRe-read against the README, the npm registry record, the extensions page and the release notes on 2026-10-04, with arc-1 at 1.5.0 published 2026-10-02. Every claim the entry already carried still holds word for word, so the checked dates move and the text does not, except where the documentation says something the entry did not. Two such things: Custom_* tools an operator registers without forking, which the corpus already recorded on claude-sap-kit and not on the server those tools run in, and one agent plugin that installs the server together with ARC-1 Skills. The seven guardrails added were stated when the entry was written and left out of it; they are quoted, not counted. The run_code facet stays absent: the extensions page gates class and report execution behind two flags and a plugin the operator writes, which is not the server stating that it runs code.MCP server,
arc-1-bopf-enhentry revisedEntered by intake from the repository README after the admin had routed the URL to a refresh of arc-1, which reported it as a candidate of its own. Written from the README and the repository description.MCP server,
arc-1-extension-sampleentry revisedEntered by intake from the README, found through ARC-1's extensions page, which links it as the worked sample.Sample,
eclipsADT-o-matentry revisedEntered by intake from the repository README and description.CLI,
LISAentry revisedEntered by intake from the README, found through ARC-1's extensions page, which names it in its example of driving a custom ABAP HTTP service.MCP server,
ZARC1_EXTENSION_FORMSentry revisedEntered by intake from the repository README and description.MCP server,
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A simple example of a SAP RAP Application based on Legacy API without UUID keyspublishedWalks through building a managed RAP business object over the Flight Reference Scenario's Travel and Booking entities with unmanaged save and late numbering, so CRUD operations route through the legacy /DMO/FLIGHT_TRAVEL_CREATE, _UPDATE and _DELETE function modules instead of generated persistence, a worked case of ABAP's transactional model. Covers the ADJUST_NUMBERS and SAVE_MODIFIED saver methods that map preliminary draft keys to the legacy-assigned travel and booking IDs, and a GetDefaultsForBookings action that proposes the next booking ID during draft handling.Blog,
ABAP code to wait for the end of "inbound bgRFC type Q" unitspublishedWalks through inbound bgRFC type Q — ABAP's queue-based flavor of async processing built on background remote function calls — and gives a helper ABAP class that polls cl_qrfc_client_inbound for each unit's and queue's state until every unit submitted across a set of parallel qRFC queues has finished. The method assumes no single unit spans more than one inbound queue, and the author flags the classes it relies on, cl_qrfc_client_inbound=>get_unit_state and get_queue_state, as unverified for this use.Blog,
ABAP's Parallel Processing Frameworks: Practical Guide to Performance Tuning of Mass Data ProcessingpublishedSurveys ABAP's two parallel processing technologies, asynchronous RFC (aRFC) and the queued, exactly-once background RFC (bgRFC), and the six frameworks built on top of them, SPTA, SHDB, CL_ABAP_PARALLEL, the Background Processing Framework, the Parallel Processing Framework and the Mass Data Framework, each by its own entry point: a function module, a factory class or a Customizing transaction. A Qualitative Weight and Summ matrix then compares the frameworks across criteria such as package creation, load balancing and documentation quality, stated as the author's own subjective scoring for one project rather than a ranking.Blog,
Configuring SAP Cloud Integration for an IBP to S/4HANA (on prem / private cloud) integrationpublishedWalks through creating the two BTP destinations an Cloud Integration iflow needs for an IBP-to-S/4HANA integration: one of type RFC with a WebSocket RFC server host and port for the IBP tenant, and one of type RFC with the on-premise proxy type, a Cloud Connector location ID and a virtual host for the S/4HANA system. It then has the reader copy SAP's prebuilt IBP integration packages into the Design workspace and deploy every reusable iflow in them before a business iflow can call the S/4HANA extractor through SAP Connectivity service.Blog,
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Debugging in ABAP Development Tool (Part 1)publishedA walkthrough of the ABAP Debugger inside ABAP Development Tools: setting a toggle (hard) breakpoint versus a soft breakpoint that only fires once a session is already active, running up to four debugging sessions on the same program, reading the call stack, and debugging an update function module. It also covers watchpoints with their recent and current values, conditional and user-specific breakpoints, activating and deleting breakpoints, and adding variables such as SY-INDEX to the variables tab.Blog,
Enhancing Standard BAPIs: When and How to Do ItpublishedWalks through why a standard BAPI needs enhancing — a missing field, an extra validation, logic before or after the call, or a performance tweak — and five ways ABAP offers to do it: a BAdI found in SE18/SE19, an append structure for extra fields, a classic user exit wired through SMOD/CMOD, a wrapper function module copied from the original, or an implicit enhancement when no other extension point exists. Each technique gets its own steps, and two carry a short ABAP code example.Blog,
How to Check Fiori Apps Related Authorization Object MasspublishedA structured, table-driven method for mass-checking which authorization objects back a set of Fiori apps: map each Fiori App ID to its OData service, look up that service's hash in USOBHASH, then resolve the hash to its authorization objects (S_SERVICE, S_RFC, among others) in USOBTC. The author reports the method's limits in practice — apps built on a transaction code are already findable directly in USOBTC, and the same approach resolved only 5 of 300 Web Dynpro apps, which needed a manual catalog-and-hash workaround instead.Blog,
Modernizing RFC/BAPI-based Integrations for a Clean Core with SAP Integration SuitepublishedWalks a BAPI-based interface from SAP PO through three paths to SAP Integration Suite: lift-and-shift, which keeps the RFC connection to the ABAP system as-is and calls it through Integration Suite's RFC adapter; protocol modernization, which re-exposes the same BAPI as a SOAP web service; and clean core modernization, which replaces it with an SAP-managed API surfaced by the migration assessment report. Follows a BAPI_MATERIAL_AVAILABILITY interface through the first and third paths, showing the generated RFC-adapter iFlow against the OData API found for it.Blog,
OData Deep Insert: Implementation and Real-Life ExamplespublishedWalks through implementing OData Deep Insert on classic SAP Gateway: two entity types joined by an association in SEGW, and a redefined CREATE_DEEP_ENTITY method in the DPC_EXT class that unpacks the header and item payload and calls BAPI_SALESORDER_CREATEFROMDAT2 to create a sales order with its line items in one request instead of separate calls per item. Gives a sample JSON payload to test with Postman or /IWFND/GW_CLIENT and names the usual failure points — an unmapped association, a method that was never redefined, or a commit left out after the BAPI call.Blog,
@mcp-abap-adt/corereleased 16.0.0ABAP ADT MCP server published as an npm scope and pluginMCP server,
fr0ster/mcp-abap-adtreleased 16.0.0Descriptions of five authentication methods including client certificates and Kerberos, and setups that rely on a .env in the directory the server starts in.MCP server,
Maherd18/sap-mcp-serverentry revisedHanded over as a URL. Behind the ABAP door because the objects it reads and changes are ABAP ones in a system reached over ADT. Two edges: agent access to your code for the eight tools over ADT, with create_objects entered as false because the README states that choice rather than leaving it out, and tool governance for the policy file, the allow-lists, the read-only switch, the approval and separation-of-duties rules, the dry-run mode and the audit log, which the README's own opening makes the point of the server. MCP servers was considered and left off: that capability is a protocol adapter on a running application service, and this one helps somebody write code, which its own description sends here. No flavor is stated, since the README names no ABAP release or cloud edition; tool_count is left out because the README names no number, and the eight in the prose is a count of its own Tools table. The second tool governance provider on the ABAP door, where the reading was community-only with one; the coverage note is left to revisit by hand.MCP server,
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A method to create an Adobe form attachment for a work item using the class concept.publishedWalks through an ABAP workflow class, ZCL_WF_PDF, whose methods call an Adobe form through a Form-Builder-generated function module, convert the returned PDF between hexadecimal string and binary with SCMS_XSTRING_TO_BINARY and SCMS_BINARY_TO_XSTRING, and attach it to a work item via SAP_WAPI_ATTACHMENT_ADD and SAP_WAPI_WRITE_CONTAINER, with the class, background-task and SWDD workflow steps shown in full. It explains document output's ABAP route, rendering a PDF through the Form Builder and getting it back into the program, and a route into attachments's ABAP side distinct from Generic Object Services: a file attached to an SAP Business Workflow work item instead.Blog,
Beyond READ_TEXT: Decoding SAPscript Long Texts (STXL) with SQLScript in CDS/AMDPpublishedSTXL stores a SAPscript long text as a compressed ABAP cluster container — LZ77 plus canonical Huffman — so the only official reads are READ_TEXT, one call per text, and its mass variant READ_TEXT_TABLE, both of which ship every decompressed line to the application server and stay invisible to ABAP CDS. The author reverse-engineered that on-disk format and ported the decoder into SQLScript, wrapped in an AMDP procedure and exposed through CDS table functions, turning long texts into a joinable, filterable column read directly in the database. On ABAP 7.56 a table function needs the driver-and-filter pattern shown because a parameter cannot bind to a calling column; on ABAP 7.58/S/4HANA 2023 the same result becomes a parameter-less CDS scalar function with true filter push-down.Blog,
Clean Core清洁核心概况介绍publishedExplains Clean Core as SAP's architecture methodology for decoupling custom code from standard code, and walks through the A-D grading SAP uses for a single extension's cleanliness: D for direct modification of standard tables, programs, classes or functions, or disallowed patterns such as implicit enhancements; C for internally developed functions calling unreleased APIs; B for using only SAP's classic or released APIs (BAPI, ALV Grid, BAdI); A for side-by-side extensions reached only through released interfaces onto the SAP Build extension suite. It lays out a six-step roadmap for reaching Clean Core — inventorying existing extensions, setting a reduction target, surveying SAP's extension routes (SAP GUI SE80, Fiori custom fields and logic, BTP high/low-code, workflow/RPA), writing a decision tree, splitting new development from legacy migration, and reviewing periodically — while noting that in-app development is not inherently unclean and that real decisions should weigh ROI rather than follow the theory absolutely.Blog,
Enhancing SAP Business Events with Custom Payload Fields using RAPpublishedWalks through enriching an outbound Business Partner event for Event Mesh that by default carries only the partner ID: a derived RAP business event, raised from a behaviour definition with RAISE ENTITY EVENT and bound through SWE2 event linkage to a receiver function module, adds first and last name to the payload. The custom event is defined on a root view entity over BUT000 and verified in /IWXBE/EVENT_MONITOR, where the enriched JSON payload shows the extra fields reaching subscribers without an additional callback to the source system.Blog,
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Invoking Business Agent Foundation Agents from ABAP: A Step-by-Step GuidepublishedWalks through calling a Business Agent Foundation agent's chat endpoint from an on-premise ABAP report: an OAuth 2.0 client profile configured in SE80/SOAUTH2_CLIENT with client-credentials grant against the service key, an HTTP (type G) RFC destination in SM59 bound to that profile, and an ABAP report using CL_HTTP_CLIENT=>CREATE_BY_DESTINATION to POST a JSON message to the agent's sendMessage endpoint and extract the reply by splitting the response string. The destination and client code are the same shape as any outbound REST call from ABAP; nothing here is specific to the agent service beyond the request body and URL.Blog,
Pattern Function for RFCpublishedA custom ABAP Editor pattern, defined once under SE38 > Utilities > More Utilities > Edit Pattern as Z_RFC_FUNCTION, that generates a CALL FUNCTION ... DESTINATION block for a chosen remote-enabled function module: an EDITOR_EXIT function on the calling system reaches the target system over RFC to fetch that function's generated source, then inserts the DESTINATION clause before handing the pattern back to the editor. It automates writing the RFC call itself rather than explaining RFC destinations as a concept, and the destination name in the sample is hardcoded to the author's own system.Blog,
S/4HANA公有云版的内部ABAP拓展publishedArgues that S/4HANA Cloud public edition's in-app ABAP extensibility is still real ABAP development, just under stricter rules: developer extensions require ABAP Development Tools rather than SAP GUI transactions, data models are defined as CDS views instead of SE11 tables, business logic is a RAP behavior definition instead of a function module, and service exposure is an auto-generated OData service from a Service Definition instead of a hand-built RFC/BAPI. The piece walks a worked example — a Fiori app that triggers the Purchase Requisition API — through CDS, RAP, OData activation on SAP Gateway, and authorization via business catalogues, and frames the whitelist of released APIs and CDS views as upgrade-safety rather than a restriction.Blog,
Taking Control of Clean Core: When to Use Project Kernseife in addition to Standard SAP ToolspublishedWalks through how SAP's standard path classifies custom ABAP extensions into Clean Core Levels A through D, running ABAP Test Cockpit against the Cloudification Repository's release status for each SAP object an extension touches, then feeding results into the RISE with SAP Methodology Dashboard in SAP Cloud ALM. Contrasts that with Project Kernseife, an open-source custom ATC check that lets a team override SAP's classification with project-specific rules, define its own successor objects (including custom wrappers), and expose a Score and Potential Score per finding through a CDS view for prioritizing cleanup — at the cost of owning and maintaining that classification. States which situations favor each: Kernseife where the standard rules are too rigid for the project's reality, the standard dashboard where cross-system comparability and low maintenance effort matter more.Blog,
Using Communication Targets for Outbound RFC Communication in ABAPpublishedWalks through calling a remote-enabled ABAP function module through a communication target instead of a direct RFC destination: on-premise, the APPLDEST transaction creates an application destination (client, CPIC type, host from SM51, authentication); in the cloud, saving a communication arrangement for an outbound-RFC communication scenario creates one automatically. ABAP code reaches the function with CALL FUNCTION (...) IN REMOTE SESSION, naming the application_destination parameter when a communication target has more than one assigned destination, and the piece walks a worked call to RFC_SYSTEM_INFO.Blog,
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Bellasources, interfaces revisedThe entry recorded the MCP connection Bella opens to ARC-1 and not the one it answers: on the two subscription routes Bella starts a CLI with its built-in tools switched off and hands it the adt_* tools over an MCP server of its own. The README states the server, the address and the token in both of those sections. An interface is a fact about the node and belongs on the thing that offers it (docs/concepts/design-roles-and-interfaces.md §3), so it is entered here rather than left to be read off the CLI's side.IDE extension,
sap-ai-dev-toolkitentry revisedDrafted from the repository's own README and LICENSE after the URL was handed over directly. Typed as an MCP server because what it gives an agent is a generated stdio entry per BAS destination; the setup command and the HANA inspector ship in the same package.MCP server,

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@mcp-abap-adt/corereleased 15.0.0ABAP ADT MCP server published as an npm scope and pluginMCP server,
fr0ster/mcp-abap-adtreleased 15.0.0Instructions that start a test run with CreateUnitTest and poll GetUnitTestStatus.MCP server,
Bellaentry revisedHanded over as a repository URL in an intake request. It is the first entry on the ABAP door that puts the assistant inside the ADT editor rather than in front of ADT as a separate server, and its README compares its own tools with those of ARC-1, which the graph already holds.IDE extension,
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S/4HANA Observability: Streaming SAP Cloud ALM & LogServ Telemetry to BigQuery & Vertex AIpublishedWalks through pulling SAP Cloud ALM's Outbound Logs, Metrics and Traces APIs — OAuth 2.0 client-credentials auth, protobuf-encoded OTLP payloads, and the guardrails needed against its rate limits and 24 GB/30-day retention baseline — plus SAP LogServ's infrastructure logs, into Google BigQuery for multi-year, cross-domain storage. A time-window SQL join then correlates ABAP exceptions, health metrics, infrastructure events and ITSM tickets, with the joined record passed to Vertex AI (Gemini) to draft a structured incident dossier.Blog,
Finding a transaction codeentry revisedA browser tool for searching transaction codes had nowhere to attach, and the nearest nodes are all about something else: browsing table data is the rows a system holds rather than the way into a task, GUI automation drives screens rather than finding them, abap-classic-ui builds them, and documentation is what to read. Named on the ABAP door because a transaction code is an entry point of a classic SAP system, and marked not-applicable in ABAP Cloud, where there is no SAP GUI and so no command field to enter one into. The coverage rests on SAP's own documentation for the in-session routes; nobody has surveyed what else answers this from outside a system, which is why the relationship is unassessed.Capability,
pyrfc-mcpentry revisedHanded over as a URL. Filed behind the ABAP door because the system it reaches is an ABAP one and the reader who points it at theirs is working on that system, which is the opposite case from open-rfc, a client an ABAP developer would never install. Three edges: MCP servers for the tool surface over function modules, agent access to your code for read_abap_source alone, and tool governance for the allowlists, the table guard, the result limits and the audit log, which the README states as the point of the server rather than as a footnote. RFC connectivity was considered and left off: the RFC client here is PyRFC, so nobody installs this to call a function module from their own code. No flavor is stated, since the README names no ABAP release or cloud edition, and auth and tool_count are left out because the README names neither a mechanism nor a number.MCP server,
ui5-tcode-finderentry revisedStaged with the capability Finding a transaction code, drafted in the same batch because the corpus held no concern for it. ecosystem: abap is a placement rather than a stated fact: the repository is an OpenUI5 and TypeScript application, but its subject is the transaction codes of a classic SAP system and the only stack its features name is SAP GUI for HTML. serves_ecosystems: ui5 rests on the overview sentence naming the T-Codes a UI5 or Fiori project needs. use_as: reference because it is consulted at its own address rather than installed into a project.Web tool,
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@mcp-abap-adt/corereleased 13.0.0ABAP ADT MCP server published as an npm scope and pluginMCP server,
@mcp-abap-adt/corereleased 14.0.0ABAP ADT MCP server published as an npm scope and pluginMCP server,
claude-sap-kitentry revisedHanded over as a URL. Typed skill rather than mcp-server or package: what a reader installs is a Claude Code plugin of three SKILL.md directories, and the tool surface it brings belongs to arc-1, which serves MCP — one artifact_type per entry (hard rule 9), the same shape ARC-1 Skills takes beside that server. It answers agent access to your code through the five Custom_* tools and agent guidance through the three skills, and states the standard-abap flavor by its requirements, which rule out the two public-cloud ABAP targets by name.Skill,
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Calling the Sales Order (A2X) OData V2 API from BTP Using a Service Consumption ModelpublishedWalks through ABAP's Service Consumption Model for OData V2 in ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse: generating a client proxy from the Sales Order (A2X) API's downloaded EDMX, then using it from an ABAP console class to create a deep sales order with items, texts, partners and pricing elements, read it back and patch a field. The client itself is built the way HTTP clients describes for SAP BTP ABAP environment: a communication arrangement resolved through cl_http_destination_provider=>create_by_comm_arrangement, handed to cl_web_http_client_manager=>create_by_http_destination, reaching the inbound SAP_COM_0109 scenario configured on the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition side.Blog,
Calling the Sales Order (A2X) OData V4 API from BTP Using a Service Consumption ModelpublishedWalks through calling SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition's Sales Order (A2X) OData V4 API from an ABAP class on SAP BTP ABAP environment: a communication arrangement on each side, a Service Consumption Model built in ADT from the API's downloaded EDMX, and a client proxy wired through cl_http_destination_provider=>create_by_comm_arrangement and cl_web_http_client_manager=>create_by_http_destination, the same HTTP clients pattern for ABAP for Cloud Development. The sample class creates a deep sales order with an item, a text, a partner and a pricing element, reads it back, then updates a field guarded by its ETag.Blog,
Generating Adobe Form Using RAP framework OData ServicespublishedModels a RAP root view entity and consumption view over a custom sales-order table, built with ABAP CDS, and exposes it through a service definition and an OData V2 UI service binding. A separate SEGW project implements GET_STREAM to call an Adobe Form driver class and stream the rendered PDF back as the response, with a computed link field added to the CDS view so the UI can open it. The PDF is generated in the backend and returned to the calling program rather than sent straight to a printer.Blog,
Usage of Expand Entity in OData Service Consumption ModelpublishedExplains how to use OData's $Expand option when SAP BTP, ABAP Environment consumes a remote service through a generated client proxy, the way HTTP clients describes it, using stubs ABAP Development Tools for Eclipse generates from the service's $metadata. The expanded association only comes back from get_business_data when the caller supplies its own ABAP type that redeclares the association as a nested table, in place of the generated CDS entity type. The same workaround still applies from release 2311 on, where the consumption model generates flat ABAP types rather than abstract CDS entities.Blog,
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ADT MCP Serverpart of, description revisedThe server is a preference inside the extension, and the connection to an ABAP system is the extension's, stated on its own entry with the protocols SAP's marketplace page names (docs/concepts/design-roles-and-interfaces.md, P3); a part points up at its whole and enters the fact once.MCP server,
arc-1connects, requires, description revisedThe connection is what the README states the server fronts (docs/concepts/design-roles-and-interfaces.md, P1), and it attaches the system's entry. The two BTP connections are stated under the README's Cloud Foundry deployment heading, so they carry that condition; the Destination service's sentence states identity forwarding and no data flow, and the ABAP environment's sentence names no protocol. The README's credits table names abaplint as what the linter uses. Two older defects go with it: a nested link that rendered its outer bracket as text, and abap-adt-api named in the same quoted sentence as the other two inspirations and carried by no edge.MCP server,
Async processingcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, proposed pages read a fourth time: the description draws the line between queued work and messaging, and the events index states that line in SAP's words.Capability,
Attachmentscore coverage revisedThe paragraph opened with SAP's packages and never said that the runtime serves a @Core.MediaType element with nothing installed. capire's Serving Media Data page is that built-in layer, cited by pagination-and-streaming and not here. Two deliveries, said apart (docs/concepts/sap-ships-and-documents.md).Capability,
Authenticationcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, proposed pages read once more: the security overview and the product security overview were cited nowhere; the first carries a boundary SAP draws itself.Capability,
Authorizationcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, proposed pages read once more: a page this capability owns was cited nowhere.Capability,
Configurationcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, judgement pages read once more: a page this capability owns was cited nowhere.Capability,
Data modellingcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, judgement pages read once more: the service definition page and the Node.js reflection API were cited nowhere; the Java reflection API already was.Capability,
Data privacycore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, judgement pages read a fifth time: the description says data privacy is doing what the law requires, and the security index's table calls data privacy a legal concept and data protection a suite of security measures; the row is quotable as written.Capability,
Database connectorscore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, link-only pass: a page this capability owns was cited nowhere.Capability,
Debuggingcore coverage revisedPackage pass 2026-09-27: the paragraph named one of the four SAP packages and cited the plugins index only; cds debug and the Java developer dashboard were cited nowhere.Capability,
Documentationcore coverage revisedPackage pass 2026-09-27: the capability had no paragraph and no source at all.Capability,
Event Meshcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, proposed pages read a fourth time: the paragraph says messaging rests on intrinsic eventing, and the events index says the same in SAP's words.Capability,
Feature togglescore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27: the Feature Toggles guide documents toggled features as built into both runtimes, with the production toggle provider left to the project, which is exactly what the one community option supplies. The capability had no core paragraph and no source.Capability,
fr0ster/mcp-abap-adtconnects, description, provides[0], lineage revisedThe README's acknowledgment names the project it started from; the graph holds it, and the edge is the maintainer's own sentence.MCP server,
Input validationchanged in, core coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, proposed pages read a third time: the boundary said the check past the constraints is a before handler of the developer's own, and the two pages that document that handler were cited nowhere; the Node.js page states the order the boundary implies, declarative first.Capability,
Local developmentcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, judgement pages read once more: a page this capability owns was cited nowhere.Capability,
Localizationcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27: a page this capability owns was cited nowhere.Capability,
Loggingcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27: a page this capability owns was cited nowhere.Capability,
ODatacore coverage, facets revisedA role in a design is filled from evidence that an option speaks what the fixed part exposes, and that join runs over one protocol vocabulary (docs/concepts/design-roles-and-interfaces.md, P2). Declared here so options can state it; absent stays "does not say".Capability,
Retrieval-augmented generationcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, link-only pages read a fourth time: vector embeddings are one of the three things SAP frames as CAP's native AI support, in the one sentence the section's index says of its own.Capability,
Serve your application over MCPcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, link-only pages read a fourth time: MCP services are one of the three things SAP frames as CAP's native AI support, in the one sentence the section's index says of its own.Capability,
Telemetrycore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27: a page this capability owns was cited nowhere.Capability,
vibing-steampunkconnects revisedThe connection is what the README states the server fronts (docs/concepts/design-roles-and-interfaces.md, P3): the sentence each ABAP server carries and nobody had entered, which the tool role of the ABAP pilot reads as the arrow from the server to the system.MCP server,
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AWS Mail configuration for SAP ABAP SystemspublishedWalks through routing an SAP ABAP system's outbound mail through Amazon SES instead of an on-premises mail server or a dedicated EC2 SMTP instance: verifying a sender address and generating SMTP credentials in SES, creating the SMTP node in transaction SCOT, importing the SES endpoint's certificate into the SSL client via STRUST, and testing delivery through SO01 and SOST. It covers the SMTP relay underneath ABAP's mail delivery, the layer Notifications marks as where the core stops and where a channel like this is written on top.Blog,
Configure Journal Entry Posting Approval from Store Template in Build Process AutomationpublishedWalks through deploying SAP's Journal Entry Posting Approval template from the SAP Build Process Automation Store against an on-premise S/4HANA system that has no Secure Network Connection: destinations for S/4HANA via Cloud Connector, for SAP Document Management service, integration option to hold the approval's supporting documents, and for the BPA service and its SMTP mail. It then swaps the template's SNC action groups for basic-connection BAPI calls and deploys the approval's UI5 applications so the task lands in My Inbox, with a Desktop Agent registered to run the unattended document-check and document-post automations.Blog,
Why SAP Cloud Identity Matters for SAP Task Center: It’s About Trust and Global User IDpublishedA step-by-step configuration walkthrough for wiring SAP Cloud Identity Services as the trust and user-correlation layer behind SAP Task Center: establishing Identity Authentication as the sole trusted identity provider for the BTP subaccount, and generating the Global User ID — carried in the token's user_uuid claim rather than the SAML name identifier — that Task Center uses to match logged-in users to their tasks. It also covers syncing that ID between Microsoft Entra ID, the Identity Directory and SAP S/4HANA through Identity Provisioning jobs, and the principal-propagation trust the cloud connector needs to pass it through to an on-premise task provider.Blog,
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