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Cloud ALM Link for ADTadded to the atlasEclipse plugin linking ABAP transports to SAP Cloud ALM featuresEditor support
SAP TCode Runneradded to the atlasVS Code sidebar that opens SAP transactions through WebGUIFinding a transaction code
ZASISadded to the atlasRegex RuleSets that read barcode strings into named fieldsSerialisation
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.Browsing table data
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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.Calling a service by hand
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.Clean code conventions
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.Code formatting
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.Code review
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.Debugging
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.Documentation
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.Driving the SAP GUI
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.Editor support
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.Error handling
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.Finding a transaction code
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).Generators
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.HTTP clients
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.IDE provisioning
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.Local development
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.Model visualisation
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.OData
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.Searching code in a system
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.Seed data
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.Serialisation
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.Serve your application over MCP
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.Source control
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.Static analysis
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.Unit testing
Yesterday
ABAP Syntax Highlightingadded to the atlasVS Code syntax highlighting for .abap filesEditor support
Thu 22
B-Tocs ABAP SDKadded to the atlasWeb service client and connector layer for calling out of ABAPHTTP clients
pyapi4abapadded to the atlasTemplate pairing a FastAPI service with ABAP reports that call it
Wed 21
abap-ai/mcp2added to the atlasStateless ABAP MCP server SDK for the 2026-07-28 protocol draftServe your application over MCP
Mon 19
ABAP Call Hierarchyadded to the atlasEclipse plugin showing the call hierarchy of ABAP membersEditor support
ABAP Code Searchadded to the atlasEclipse plugin searching ABAP sources from the search dialogSearching code in a system
ABAP Development Tools for VS CodepublishedA Devtoberfest 2026 session on ABAP Development Tools for VS CodeABAP Development Tools for VS CodeSAP's ABAP tools in VS Code: editing, debugging, ABAP Unit, ATC and transports for classes, CDS and RAP objects, over RFC to an on-premise or Private Cloud system and HTTP to a cloud one, with Joule's ADT MCP server and code completion behind an AI-unit licence.sap official, abap: where the extension sits after the ABAP Workbench and ABAP Development Tools for EclipseABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.sap official, abap, 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 ServerADT MCP ServerSAP's own ADT MCP server, and not a package: a preference inside ABAP Development Tools for VS Code that starts a local HTTP MCP server on a port you choose.sap official, abap and shows the tools a chat can call, with the object search and source code search tools listed as planned.Editor support
ABAP Search and Analysis Toolsadded to the atlasEclipse plugin for ABAP object search and CDS view analysisSearching code in a system
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ABAP Tagsadded to the atlasEclipse plugin for tagging ABAP repository objectsEditor support
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 environmentSAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP's ABAP runtime on BTP: ABAP systems developed in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP HANA Cloud, for cloud apps, OData services and side-by-side extensions of SAP S/4HANA.sap official, btp, 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 analysisStatic analysisCatching problems in code before it runs: naming, obsolete statements, security findings, and compatibility with a target environment. Style linting, security scanning and cloud-readiness checks are often treated as one concern.SAP and community, narrow by design 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.Static analysis
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.Editor support
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.Seed data
Sun 18
CAP in the age of AI #3 - from MCP to A2ApublishedThe episode that finishes @cap-js/mcp@cap-js/mcpA CAP plugin that serves an @mcp-annotated service over MCP with three generated tools, describe, query and call_action, and writes its endpoint into the local agent's configuration in development.sap official, cap 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@cap-js/agentsSAP's own CDS plugin for building agents inside a CAP service, wired to audit logging and telemetry through peer dependencies rather than leaving observability to the author.sap official, cap, which serves it over A2A with an agent card and a chat preview, runs first against a mocked response and then against SAP AI CoreSAP AI CoreSAP's AI service on BTP: the runtime for AI assets, and through the Generative AI Hub inside it the access to foundation models, the orchestration service with its templating, masking, filtering and grounding modules, the Prompt Registry and Document Grounding.sap official, btp bound with cds bind and a hybrid profile, and reuses the MCP adapter's tools rather than defining new ones.Serve your application over MCPSat 17
@abap2ui5/linteradded to the atlasCommand-line checker for abap2UI5 app classes and their viewsStatic analysis
abap2UI5 for VS Codeadded to the atlasVS Code extension to preview, activate and lint abap2UI5 appsEditor support
abap2UI5 headless frontendadded to the atlasDrives abap2UI5 app classes from ABAP Unit testsUnit testing
abap2UI5 Layout Editoradded to the atlasDrag-and-drop UI5 view editor that writes an abap2UI5 app classGenerators
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abap2UI5 Playgroundadded to the atlasIn-browser ABAP editor beside the abap2UI5 app it buildsLocal development
abap2UI5 samplesadded to the atlas129 abap2UI5 sample apps, one ABAP class each
abap2UI5-addons/open-source-libsadded to the atlasEleven abap2UI5 apps, one per open-source ABAP library
abap2UI5/samples-controlsadded to the atlasUI5 Demo Kit samples rebuilt as abap2UI5 apps
app-templateadded to the atlasStarter repository for an abap2UI5 app with CI and agent setup
launchpad-kpiadded to the atlasPuts a number from an abap2UI5 app on a Fiori launchpad tileOData
sapguiadded to the atlasThirty classic transactions rebuilt as abap2UI5 appsBrowsing table data
se16nadded to the atlasTable content browser in abap2UI5, for ABAP Cloud and on premiseBrowsing table data
web-abap2UI5added to the atlasabap2UI5 transpiled to JavaScript and run in a browser tabLocal development
abap-adt-apireleased 9.0.01 content item in the atlas was written against an earlier version. Nothing is recorded about what changed.Editor support
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).Debugging
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).Serve your application over MCP
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).Editor support
Browsing table datadescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Browsing table data
Calling a service by handdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Calling a service by hand
Clean code conventionsdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Clean code conventions
Code reviewdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Code review
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).Debugging
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.Driving the SAP GUI
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).Editor support
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).OData
IDE provisioningdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.IDE provisioning
Model visualisationdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Model visualisation
ODatadescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.OData
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).OData
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).OData
OpenAPIdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.OpenAPI
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).Serve your application over MCP
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).Browsing table data
Searching code in a systemdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Searching code in a system
Serve your application over MCPdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.cap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Serve your application over MCP
Source controlname, description revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Source control
Static analysisdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Static analysis
Unit testingdescription revisedKeep the default capability wording neutral; preserve the previous wording in framing_by_ecosystem.abap. Maintainer-requested scope audit.Unit testing
Fri 16
Extending Standard S/4 HANA OData API'spublishedWalks through extending a standard S/4HANA ODataODataExposing data and operations through OData, including the service model, metadata and protocol versions clients require. Version differences affect which clients can consume a service and which query features they can use.SAP and community, narrow by design 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 EclipseABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.sap official, abap.ODataHammer Core Servicesadded to the atlasABAP-side component for the Hammer editor
open-steamgateadded to the atlasLocal ABAP server serving /IWBEP/ OData v2 without an SAP systemLocal development
Tools for abapGitadded to the atlasHelper programs around abapGitSource control
Thu 15
@abaplint/transpileradded to the atlasTranspiles ABAP to JavaScript to run on Node.jsUnit testing
cross-http-clientadded to the atlasHTTP client for classic on-premise ABAP and ABAP CloudHTTP clients
express-icf-shimadded to the atlasShim running an ABAP ICF handler behind an Express 4.x serverUnit testing
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 CockpitStatic analysisCatching problems in code before it runs: naming, obsolete statements, security findings, and compatibility with a target environment. Style linting, security scanning and cloud-readiness checks are often treated as one concern.SAP and community, narrow by design 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.Static analysis
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open-abap-coreadded to the atlasCore ABAP artifacts for code transpiled by @abaplint/transpilerUnit testing
open-abap-odataadded to the atlasOData and Gateway shims serving SEGW-style services on Node.jsOData
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.Local development
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.Unit testing
Wed 14
Running AI agents against SAP ECC 6.0: lessons from building an in-system MCP serverpublishedNicolasHernandez recounts building and running, over two years, an MCPServe your application over MCPExposing selected application data and business operations to an AI agent through the Model Context Protocol. An application may also integrate remote services through service integration, connecting its exposed contract with agent access to your systems. Development assistance belongs to agent access to your code.SAP and community, narrow by design 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 ServerADT MCP ServerSAP's own ADT MCP server, and not a package: a preference inside ABAP Development Tools for VS Code that starts a local HTTP MCP server on a port you choose.sap official, abap and SAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilitiesSAP Joule for Developers, ABAP AI capabilitiesSAP's AI for ABAP development in ADT for Eclipse and VS Code: chat, code completion, explain, test and CDS generation, RAP logic prediction, and since June 2026 an agentic mode over the ADT MCP Server, metered in AI units through the ABAP AI Hub Service on BTP.sap official, abap do not reach. AuthorizationAuthorizationDeciding who may read or change what, at service, entity and instance level — role checks, forwarded user context, and restrictions evaluated as query filters rather than after the fact.SAP and community, unassessed 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 connectivityRFC connectivityCalling ABAP function modules from outside the system over RFC, with destinations and connection pooling handled rather than hand-wired on the calling side.SAP and community, narrow by design 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.Serve your application over MCP
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.Driving the SAP GUI
kts982/mcp-sap-guidescription revisedThe policy is now a condition of GUI automation, sourced to the policy itself.Driving the SAP GUI
mcp-sap-guidescription revisedThe policy is now a condition of GUI automation, sourced to the policy itself.Driving the SAP GUI
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sapgui.mcpdescription revisedThe policy is now a condition of GUI automation, sourced to the policy itself.Driving the SAP GUI
Tue 13
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 environmentSAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP's ABAP runtime on BTP: ABAP systems developed in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP HANA Cloud, for cloud apps, OData services and side-by-side extensions of SAP S/4HANA.sap official, btp 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.OData
Mon 12
abap-transport-reviewadded to the atlasTransport release check gated by GitHub pull request approvalCode review
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".Code review
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.Serve your application over MCP
Sun 11
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 MCPServe your application over MCPExposing selected application data and business operations to an AI agent through the Model Context Protocol. An application may also integrate remote services through service integration, connecting its exposed contract with agent access to your systems. Development assistance belongs to agent access to your code.SAP and community, narrow by design concern, and SAP AI CoreSAP AI CoreSAP's AI service on BTP: the runtime for AI assets, and through the Generative AI Hub inside it the access to foundation models, the orchestration service with its templating, masking, filtering and grounding modules, the Prompt Registry and Document Grounding.sap official, btp is the LLM integrationLLM integrationCalling a language model from application code with the tenant, destination and credential handling already solved instead using an SDK call with a hand-rolled key.SAP and community, narrow by design 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 HutzelDaniel Hutzelgave 3 talks, contributed to 32 entriessap official, Daniel SchlachterDaniel Schlachtercreated 9 pieces, contributed to 10 entriessap official, Marc Huber and Sami Lechner, written here from SAP's abstract; the recording is not yet published.Serve your application over MCP
AI-enabled administration: Automating log analysis with generative AI hubpublishedA log analysis tool for incident work, built in SAP Business Application StudioSAP Business Application StudioSAP's development environment for business applications, delivered as a cloud service and opened in a browser, where work happens in preconfigured dev spaces.sap official, btp with the generative AI hub feature, which SAP AI CoreSAP AI CoreSAP's AI service on BTP: the runtime for AI assets, and through the Generative AI Hub inside it the access to foundation models, the orchestration service with its templating, masking, filtering and grounding modules, the Prompt Registry and Document Grounding.sap official, btp ships as its LLM integrationLLM integrationCalling a language model from application code with the tenant, destination and credential handling already solved instead using an SDK call with a hand-rolled key.SAP and community, narrow by design 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.Editor support
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 modelTransactional modelHow a business object's behaviour is defined and who owns the transaction — the choice that shapes everything downstream in an application.SAP and community, unassessed of ABAP Cloud, in SAP Business Application StudioSAP Business Application StudioSAP's development environment for business applications, delivered as a cloud service and opened in a browser, where work happens in preconfigured dev spaces.sap official, btp; the abstract calls the UI side new territory for that developer, and a Fiori elements app is rendered from the service's Fiori annotationsFiori annotationsDescribing a service so a Fiori client can render it without hand-written UI code — titles, value helps, hierarchies and visibility expressed as model annotations rather than screen logic.SAP and community, unassessed 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.Editor support
SAP BAIP, ABAP environment: Monitoring and troubleshootingpublishedMonitoring and troubleshooting a side-by-side application written in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP's ABAP runtime on BTP: ABAP systems developed in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP HANA Cloud, for cloud apps, OData services and side-by-side extensions of SAP S/4HANA.sap official, btp, 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 EclipseABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.sap official, abap for the troubleshooting half, the debuggingDebuggingSeeing what running code did between an input arriving and a result coming out: which code ran, what the values were at each point, and why a value ended up as it did.SAP and community, narrow by design 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.Browsing table data
Fri 9
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.Serve your application over MCP
Tue 6
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 handlingError handlingTurning a failure into a response a client can act on — protocol-correct error payloads, correlation, and a boundary between internal detail and what a caller sees.SAP and community, unassessed 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 outputDocument outputProducing a document a person receives — a printed form, a generated PDF, a filled template — and getting it to a printer or a queue rather than returning it as a payload.SAP and community, narrow by design from spool rather than Form Builder.Error handling
Sun 4
eclipsADT-o-matadded to the atlasPowerShell wizard installing Eclipse with ADT and pluginsIDE provisioning
eclipsADT-o-matentry revisedEntered by intake from the repository README and description.IDE provisioning
Sat 3
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.Debugging
OData Deep Insert: Implementation and Real-Life ExamplespublishedWalks through implementing ODataODataExposing data and operations through OData, including the service model, metadata and protocol versions clients require. Version differences affect which clients can consume a service and which query features they can use.SAP and community, narrow by design 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.OData
Fri 2
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 destinationRFC connectivityCalling ABAP function modules from outside the system over RFC, with destinations and connection pooling handled rather than hand-wired on the calling side.SAP and community, narrow by design 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.HTTP clientsTaking 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.Static analysis
Thu 1
ABAP Architectadded to the atlasEclipse plug-in turning JSON or XML into ABAP types and DDIC objectsSerialisation
abapthemesadded to the atlasThree colour themes for ABAP source in ADT for EclipseEditor support
abapwuluadded to the atlasRefreshes the where-used list for objects in one packageSearching code in a system
Tue 29
Hammeradded to the atlasNative macOS code editor for ABAP and CDSEditor support
ui5-tcode-finderadded to the atlasBrowser page searching SAP transaction codesFinding a transaction code
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.Finding a transaction code
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.Finding a transaction code
Sun 27
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 EclipseABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.sap official, abap: 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 clientsHTTP clientsCalling an HTTP API outside the system from application code, with the request, the credential and the response handled by a client each time the call is made. Serving HTTP is the other direction, and where the address and the credential are kept is destinations.SAP and community, unassessed describes for SAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP's ABAP runtime on BTP: ABAP systems developed in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP HANA Cloud, for cloud apps, OData services and side-by-side extensions of SAP S/4HANA.sap official, btp: 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 EditionSAP S/4HANA Cloud Public EditionSAP's cloud ERP, run by SAP as software as a service. For the things here it is the business system a side-by-side application on BTP reads from and writes to over its published OData APIs. side.HTTP clientsCalling the Sales Order (A2X) OData V4 API from BTP Using a Service Consumption ModelpublishedWalks through calling SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public EditionSAP S/4HANA Cloud Public EditionSAP's cloud ERP, run by SAP as software as a service. For the things here it is the business system a side-by-side application on BTP reads from and writes to over its published OData APIs.'s Sales Order (A2X) OData V4 API from an ABAP class on SAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP's ABAP runtime on BTP: ABAP systems developed in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP HANA Cloud, for cloud apps, OData services and side-by-side extensions of SAP S/4HANA.sap official, btp: 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 clientsHTTP clientsCalling an HTTP API outside the system from application code, with the request, the credential and the response handled by a client each time the call is made. Serving HTTP is the other direction, and where the address and the credential are kept is destinations.SAP and community, unassessed 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.HTTP clients
Usage of Expand Entity in OData Service Consumption ModelpublishedExplains how to use OData's $Expand option when SAP BTP, ABAP EnvironmentSAP BTP ABAP environmentSAP's ABAP runtime on BTP: ABAP systems developed in the ABAP Cloud model on SAP HANA Cloud, for cloud apps, OData services and side-by-side extensions of SAP S/4HANA.sap official, btp consumes a remote service through a generated client proxy, the way HTTP clientsHTTP clientsCalling an HTTP API outside the system from application code, with the request, the credential and the response handled by a client each time the call is made. Serving HTTP is the other direction, and where the address and the credential are kept is destinations.SAP and community, unassessed describes it, using stubs ABAP Development Tools for EclipseABAP Development Tools for EclipseSAP's Eclipse plugins for ABAP: source, dictionary and CDS editors, Project Explorer, Outline and ABAP Unit, calling ADT resources on the connected system.sap official, abap 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.HTTP clientsDebuggingcore 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.Debugging
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Documentationcore coverage revisedPackage pass 2026-09-27: the capability had no paragraph and no source at all.Documentation
Local developmentcore coverage revisedcapire audit 2026-09-27, judgement pages read once more: a page this capability owns was cited nowhere.Local development
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".OData
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.Serve your application over MCP