New SAP Platform Features v16.5 SP02

PowerDesigner v16.5 SP02 includes new support for SAP platform solutions.

SAP HANA Enhancements

PowerDesigner supports round trip reverse-engineering and generation of SAP HANA® v1.0 SP05 and SP06 tables and analytic and attribute views. This version includes new support for table partitioning.

Documented in:
  • Data Modeling > DBMS Definition Reference > SAP HANA Database

SAP Business Suite Import and Generation to HANA

An SAP® Business Suite installation is built on a complex database structure, which comprises many thousand tables with often cryptic names, and may include large numbers of extensions. In certain environments, there may be multiple servers, each with different extensions. PowerDesigner allows you to:
  • Browse the application component and package hierarchy using their human-readable short descriptions as identifiers.
  • Import components, packages, and their supporting logical objects for analysis, comparison, and merging of data dictionaries.
  • Generate and export a HANA table structure to allow consolidated reporting on one or more SAP Business Suite installations.

Business Suite to HANA

PowerDesigner supports importing any recent version of SAP® Business Suite.

Documented in:
  • Data Modeling > DBMS Definition Reference > SAP Business Suite

SAP Solution Manager Enhancements

PowerDesigner now supports the importing and editing of scenario flow diagrams and importing additional logical components from the system landscape defined on your server for use in your processes. Documentation handling is improved to allow the importing of document types and statuses and the creation of new project documentation of type URL in PowerDesigner.

PowerDesigner supports round-trip importing and exporting of SAP® Solution Manager v7.1 SP07 and SP08 projects.

Documented in:
  • Business Process Modeling > SAP Solution Manager

SAP BusinessObjects Enhancements

A new option lets you exclude blob columns when generating the universe business layer.

To use this feature, you must have SAP® BusinessObjects™ SBOP BI Platform Clients 4.0 SP04 Patch 3 (v14.0.4.819) or higher installed on your workstation. On Windows Vista or Windows 7 machines, if PowerDesigner fails to recognize a valid BusinessObjects installation, it may be necessary separately to launch the Universe Design tool one time with administrator privileges to enable the BusinessObjects SDK.

Documented in:
  • Data Modeling > Building Data Models > Generating and Reverse-Engineering Databases > Generating a BusinessObjects Universe
Parent topic: New Features v16.5 SP02