PowerConnect SP 8.00 Release notes (ABAP)

Upgrade

Upgrade steps are described in the following KB: PowerConnect ABAP Support Pack 6.X to 7.0 Upgrade

!Important notes:

• Please perform Metric queue cleanup step before the upgrade

• User roles are updated in this release and should be re-imported after upgrade

Known problems

• STRUST_HISTORY configuration issue (there is a solution).

• LTRC events are not collected.

Changes

New

• New Central License service integration (beta)

• New PowerConnect config synchronization using push (beta)
  Old config sync is deprecated now.

• New SLT DMC Replication Table & Load Status extractor (LTRC_DMC)

• New Certificate change history extractor (STRUST_HISTORY)

• New Historical data collector program

• New Snapshot monitoring extractor (SDF_MON)

• New Invoice extractor (BPM_ECC_INVOICE)

• New SAP Notes extractor for SAP SolMan systems (SM_SAP_NOTES)

• New GRC Provision requests extractor (GRC_REQUESTS)

• New Registered Outbound tRFC/qRFC Destinations extractor (SMQS)

Improvements

• Metric queue has been reworked for better performance

• Control Panel View Log screen has been enhanced with error type filter

• Control Panel now showing more specific connection test error messages

• LTRC: Enhanced with additional fields for IUUC replication

• HDB_DBCC_AUDIT: HANA Audit log extractor is able to pull XSA events

• SE16N_CD and S416N_CD are pulling changes as structural data

• SE16N_CD and S416N_CD got subtype to check global table modification flag

• OSQLSCRIPTS: extractor is now checking user authorization to select cross client data

• OSQLSCRIPTS: all variables are now aligned with TREAD_DYN extractor

• SM58 enhanced with statistical information
  Detailed data could be deactivated now

• SMQ1 enhanced with statistical information
  Detailed data could be deactivated now

• SMQ2 enhanced with statistical information
  Detailed data could be deactivated now.

• PC_HEALTH enhanced with the information from Administrator->Check errors menu

• STAD Main subrecord enhanced with SAP Passport fields

• SRT_MONI enhanced with XPATH filter

• HDB_DBCC_OLOCK enhanced with runtime information (program and user)

• HDB_DBCC_RLOCK enhanced with runtime information (program and user)

• SM21 extractor is now using new API (if available)

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Bug fixes

• Metrics are not uploaded to load balanced Target Group bug fix

• Time based extraction: incorrect job user name fix

• Upload scheme: target deletion bug fix

• Field filter migration bug fix (post upgrade)

• STAD: reduntant events bug fix

• STATS: time conversion issue fix for SAP NW 7.40

• STATS: data collected from single app server fix

• STAD: data collected from single app server fix

• SM12: WP number with more than 2 digits extracted properly now

• STRUST: Validity timestamp format has been fixed

• LOGS: Gateway logs parsing error fix

• Sybase table size calculation bug fix

• SM37: missing EPP context fields

• TREAD_DYN: Extraction failing if specified timestamp has long format

• TREAD_DYN: Extraction failing in case time field in DB is empty

• SLG1: bug fix for duplicate field in context structure

• LTRC_CHECK: data extraction bug fix

• CDPOS: filter backup export bug fix

• SM20 duplicated events bug fix

Various bug fixes comparing to SP 7.04.