Changelog

1.8.0

coming soon

• BW

  • Options for scanning ABAP code of transformation and identifying dependencies. It is also possible to output the code to files.

• ERP

  • Options for scanning ABAP code and identifying dependencies. It is also possible to output the code to files.

• HANA

  • Support of Table Functions

  • Options for getting the XML definition of Calculation Views and Code of Functions and Table Functions.

  • new table must be authorized: "PUBLIC"."FUNCTIONS"

• Power BI

  • Descriptions of Power BI artifacts are now read and added to the export.

  • BugFix “Value cannot be null. (Parameter 'source')” if a Dashboard is using a Streaming Dataset

• UML-Export:

  • Do not add any empty label / description to UML-Export of Power BI artifacts

  • deployedIn was set incorrectly in certain cases

  • Possibility to choose the file name with the parameter --output. Works only for uml format

• Bug Fixes

  • BW: The operators of the formulas and calculated key figures were not displayed in the build-up file.

  • BW: Filter information was missing in the BW query build-up.

  • smaller bug fixes

• Vulnerabilities

  • Fixed a medium vulnerability related to possible command injection

• General

  • Replaced current library to connect to ABAP Systems (SapNwRfc) by ERPConnect of Theobald Software

1.7.6

03.02.2026

Upload

• issue in upload solved

BW v2.0.9
HANA v1.3.16
SAC v1.0.6
Datasphere v1.0.6
Power BI v2.0.0

1.7.5

28.01.2026

BW/ERP

• Added the possibility to connect via SNC

BW v2.0.9
HANA v1.3.16
SAC v1.0.6
Datasphere v1.0.6
Power BI v2.0.0

1.7.4

11.12.2025

• BW

  • Bug Fix 'System.DBNull' to type 'System.String'

• ERP

  • Bug Fix for specific characters in transactions

  • Bug Fix CDS View Entity culture specific integer representation

BW v2.0.9
HANA v1.3.16
SAC v1.0.6
Datasphere v1.0.6
Power BI v2.0.0

1.7.3

28.11.2025

• ERP

  • Bug Fix: Stack empty

BW v2.0.7
HANA v1.3.16
SAC v1.0.6
Datasphere v1.0.6
Power BI v2.0.0

1.7.2

25.11.2025

• ERP

  • Bug Fix: RFC_READ_TABLE with suspicious WHERE condition

BW v2.0.6
HANA v1.3.16
SAC v1.0.6
Datasphere v1.0.6
Power BI v2.0.0

1.7.1

21.10.2025

• Vulnerabilities

  • Critical vulnerability CVE-2025-55315 is fixed

BW v2.0.5
HANA v1.3.16
SAC v1.0.6
Datasphere v1.0.6
Power BI v2.0.0

1.7.0

29.08.2025

• Power BI

  • first support of Power BI artifacts: Apps, Dashboards, Reports, Paginated Reports, Semantic Models, Tables

  • Lineage between the artifacts mentioned above

  • Structure of the Tables with their columns and Measures

  • Information about the sources of the tables

• SAP Datasphere

  • Supported object type Analytic Models, Tables, Views, Remote Tables

  • Lineage between the artifacts mentioned above

  • Structure of the artifacts mentioned above

• S/4HANA

  • CDS View entities / new CDS Views are now supported

  • The Description of Application Components and their Structure are now extracted to in Details.xml and Buildups.xml

  • NOT NULL and PRIMARY KEY information of columns are added

  • Possibility to set more complex filter with ErpCriteria

  • new tables must be authorized: CVERS, DF14T, DDCDS_CONDITION, DD03ND, DD02BND, DDCDS_SELECTLIST, DDFIELDANNO

• UML-Export:

  • Add the position of HANA columns

  • Add deployment system without the proof if it exist or not

• General:

  • The configuration file appsettings.json and the license file license.lic can now be stored in a different path. This makes the update process easier

BW v2.0.5
HANA v1.3.16
SAC v1.0.6
Datasphere v1.0.6
Power BI v2.0.0

1.6.13

29.05.2025

• BW

  • After an inplace BW/4HANA migration the extraction does not work, because the old entity types (ODSO, CUBE, and MPRO) stay in the TADIR table. That is handled now

BW v2.0.4
HANA v1.3.15
SAC v1.0.4
Datasphere v1.0.4

1.6.12

29.04.2025

• BW

  • error in specific cases with the HANA connection to BW if a cell contains a NULL value

BW v2.0.3
HANA v1.3.15
SAC v1.0.4
Datasphere v1.0.4

1.6.11

15.04.2025

• BW

  • Handled a special case where column OPERA in SAP table RSZCALC is set to 'T'

BW v2.0.2
HANA v1.3.15
SAC v1.0.4
Datasphere v1.0.4

1.6.10

14.04.2025

• BW

  • additional logging for issues in complex formulas

BW v2.0.1
HANA v1.3.15
SAC v1.0.4
Datasphere v1.0.4

1.6.9

04.03.2025

• S/4HANA and BW

  • added a property delimiter to the appsetting.json to handle descriptions which special characters.

BW v2.0.0
HANA v1.3.15
SAC v1.0.4
Datasphere v1.0.4

1.6.8

25.02.2025

• BW

  • support of buildup and field mapping of “old” BW objects

  • new tables must be authorized: RSDODSOIOBJ, RSDCUBEIOBJ, RSDICMULTIIOBJ, RSQFOBJ, RSQTOBJ

  • BugFix it could lead to an error when the description of a reporting element contains . and / together with “

  • BugFix if a AfO Workbook stored on BW containes the same BW Query multiple times

• ROWSKIPS MOD ROWCOUNT <> 0 bug is fixed. Was implemented with SAP Note https://me.sap.com/notes/3446187

BW v1.4.56
HANA v1.3.15
SAC v1.0.4
Datasphere v1.0.4

1.6.7

12.02.2025

• BW

  • BugFix in BW Query Buildup

BW v1.4.53
HANA v1.3.15
SAC v1.0.4
Datasphere v1.0.4

1.6.6

24.01.2025

• HANA

  • a hard blacklist is implemented to filter out schemes completely

  • key and mandatory information for columns are added

  • bug fix - blacklist filtering with wildcard asterisk

  • bug fix - blacklist escape _

• BW/4HANA

  • support DataSources based on HANA entities

  • new tables must be authorized: RSLOGSYSDB

• S/4HANA

  • add better descriptions for CDS Views

  • new tables must be authorized: DDDDLSRCT

• UML-Export:

  • HANA data types are included

  • BW data types are included

  • --abap-relations can now be added to upload

  • Improved the sorting of Rules

  • Timeout increased for uploading

• General

  • If the Metadata API is called by another script, you can now query return codes
    (Windows: echo %ERRORLEVEL% Unix: echo $?). If something goes wrong, the return code is 1 otherwise 0.

  • Updated external libraries and fixed external vulnerabilities

BW v1.4.51
HANA v1.3.15
SAC v1.0.4
Datasphere v1.0.4

1.6.5

18.12.2024

• OPTION_NOT_VALID bug is fixed. Was implemented with SAP Note https://me.sap.com/notes/3446187

BW v1.4.50
HANA v1.3.14
SAC v1.0.3
Datasphere v1.0.3

1.6.4

15.11.2024

• SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

  • identification of Datasphere data sources

• HANA

  • Bug Fixes

    • duplicate Transformations in very specific cases

    • problem in chunk reads in specific cases

    • smaller Bug Fixes

• S/4HANA

  • Bug Fixes

    • lineage between transactions and nothing is fixed

• UML-Export:

  • HANA Support

  • scheme can be added to the command and must not be set in config file

BW v1.4.47
HANA v1.3.14
SAC v1.0.3
Datasphere v1.0.3

1.6.3

29.10.2024

• Datasphere

  • Bug related to shared entities is fixed

• BW

  • Bug related to special character in descriptions is fixed

  • Added source property to BW DataSources

  • Added InfoArea property to Transformations

  • New tables must be authorized: RSBASIDOC, RSDSEXTOBJ, RSDAREA, RSDAREAT

  • Information about the InfoArea Buildup and Descriptions are now stored in the Details and Buildups file

• S/4HANA

  • Support Transactions as separate object type in S/4HANA export

  • Missing column descriptions in some cases is fixed

  • If a ABAP code selects and manipulates a table only one relation was shown

  • New tables must be authorized: TDEVC, TSTC, TSTCP, TSTCT, REPOSRC, TCESYST, SEOCLASSDF, TFDIR

• UML-Export:

  • Added Data Definition property to Views which are generated by a Data Definition

  • Added Descriptions for the collections OSOA, FUNC, CLAS, PROG and TRAN

  • Added data types of ERP Attributes to export

  • If ERP and BW is uploaded with the BW upload we can add automatically derivations from the ERP Extractors to the BW DataSources

  • Anpassung der yaml (new stereotypes: RESULT CACHE, DOMA and other changes)

BW v1.4.46
HANA v1.3.13
SAC v1.0.2
Datasphere v1.0.2

1.6.2

07.08.2024

• HANA: bug “An item with the same key has already been added” fixed

• UML-Export:

  • Support S/4HANA

  • Proxy Server Support

BW v1.4.43
HANA v1.3.11
SAC v1.0.1
Datasphere v1.0.1

1.6.1

21.06.2024

• S/4HANA:

  • in specific cases the export could lead to an error if the ErpComponentBlacklist is filled

  • all entities with development class starting with $ are excluded from the export

• BW:

  • InfoAreas file with the tree of InfoAreas and their descriptions can be exported (parameter -i)

  • Default Filter and Fixed Filter Values are added to the structure of BW Queries (Buildups file)

  • more information (description, ID, etc.) are added to Hierarchies which are used in filters. Hierarchies are identified with the tag <hierarchy>

  • more information (description, ID, etc.) are added to Variables which are used in filters or calculations. Variables are identified with the tag <variable>

  • in some cases InfoArea was not set to BW Queries, RKFs, and CKFs

  • in case of restrictions with intervals we use now <valueFrom> and <valueTo>

  • better identification of the operator in case of variables. It is now the real operator instead of <operator>VAR</operator>

• ABAP-Relations Filter can be set now on system level

• UML-Export:

  • Development Class and Component are now added to the UML-Export in S/4HANA

  • Duplicated Transformation Rule in S/4HANA if View and Extractor with same Technical Name exists, is fixed.

  • Translation of special space characters to normal space

    • No-Break Space

    • Figure Space

    • Narrow No-Break Space

    • Zero Width No-Break Space

    • Mongolian Vowel Separator

    • World Joiner

BW v1.4.42
HANA v1.3.10
SAC v1.0.1
Datasphere v1.0.1

1.6.0

19.02.2024

• S/4HANA: number of entries for tables

• S/4HANA: smaller performance improvements

• S/4HANA: blacklist of SAP components for a better filtering

• S/4HANA: export relations between S/4HANA DataSources and their extractors

• SAP Datasphere: first version of connector (object level)

• BW/4HANA: add InfoArea as property to entities

• BW/4HANA: add data type and length for InfoObjects and Fields

• UML export for SAC connector

• UML export for Embedded Analytics connector

• UML export for ABAP Relations

• several bug fixes

BW v1.4.40
HANA v1.3.9
SAC v1.0.0
Datasphere v1.0.0

1.5.1

21.11.2023

• possibility to set a new connection parameter "UseAlwaysGetString" for RFC connection to use the implemented function module only

BW v1.4.12
HANA v1.3.3

1.5.0

13.11.2023

• new connector: ABAP Relations

• new connector: SAC (SAP Analytics Cloud)

• bug fixes

BW v1.4.11
HANA v1.3.3

1.4.0

27.10.2023

• HANA Data Lineage on Field level

• UML export for HANA connector

• easy access: possibility to use BW and S/4 Embedded Analytics connector without installing a function module

• add datatype, length and decimals to fields of Embedded Analytic entities

• bug fixes

BW v1.4.10
HANA v1.3.3

1.3.4

08.08.2023

• hide password input in command line

• improvements for UML export

• bug fixes

BW v1.4.4
HANA v1.3.2

1.3.3

26.06.2023

• tranformations without rules (inconsistency in SAP) can be processed

• formulas of inner nodes of CompositeProvider are supported now

• possibility to split into multiple buildup files

• other improvements

BW v1.4.1
HANA v1.3.2

1.3.0

13.04.2023

• first version of DDIC (Embedded Analytics) connector

• first version of HANA connector

• Support of uml like export for BW connector

BW v1.3.0
HANA v1.3.0

1.2.5

31.10.2022

• Display Attributes are part of BW Query Buildups

• Calculation Views consumed by CompositeProvider are now written into the Relations file

• Possibility to choose whether RFC or HANA SQL connection to the system should be established

• Commands for starting the tool changed (HANA schema is not longer needed)

BW v1.2.5

1.2.4

15.08.2022

Password is stored encrypted

BW v1.2.3

1.2.3

09.06.2022

Added the following to Premium Edition:

• Description of Transformation rules

• Type of Rules (Constant, Formula, Field Routine, Lookup, End Routine, Start Routine, Expert Routine Direct Mapping)

• Value of Constants

• Definition of Formulas

• Lookup object of lookup rules

BW v1.2.3

1.2.2

28.04.2022

• Inner HCPR Mapping Bug fixed

• Rules of Transformation added to Mappings file

BW v1.2.2

1.2.0

12.04.2022

first released version for standard and premium edition of the BW Data Lineage API

BW v1.2.0