All about S4 Hana 1709 & issues over comed from earlier versions 1610, 1511

Hi friend, it’s is time to change the platform to SAP fourth generation S4 Hana 1709.  Which is delivering by SAP SE by resolving with the most of the issues from earlier versions. In this Article, you will get the all information and other related updates.

About S4 Hana 1709 :

It is a fourth generation sap R3 application & updated version in On-premise. Which is available only for In-memory Hana database 2.0. In this version, SAP SE provides the complete solutions for issues, which we face in the earlier releases.

Issues which are not exist in 1709 :

• We can deploy the Hana 2.0 with default parameters & values. No need to set additional parameters. But you can also change the parameter as per requirement.
• No need to set below env parameters for S/4 Hana Application installation.
  • HDB_MASSIMPORT=YES
• No more client copy issues. You can complete it without any issues. Also you can complete standard client copy with short time approximately around one and half hour.
• Transport problems are no more exist here, like configuration not updating even after respective tr has been successfully imported.
• High Security developments are available in HDB 2.0. You can observe the required changes in EWA reports.
• Even performance wise also improved here, like standard transactions & reports.

New Features & Advantages of OP 1709 :

• High availability & good performance in Application as well as in HDB.
• Hana Cockpit has been separated from default deployment of Hana.  Which is available now with the full of administration & monitoring of SYSTEM DB & tenant databases.
• NWBC also updated with fiori functionality theme.
• Almost 2k fiori Applications are available in this release.
• In Authorization area, if you do any changes in any authorization object, then it will create the copy of that object with default values as a inactive mode. With this, you can reactive the default values at any time.

New Issue in initial release of 1709:

• We need to activate the each and every required services of NWBC (As per the note : 517484 – Inactive services in the internet communication framework). Other wise Bank account related web page is does not work, even the respective service wda_fclm_bam_hierarchy in active.
• F4 search option is working slow by consuming more time to read the all data, especially for ‘Vendor accounts’. For that, you need to apply the corrections as per the below note with sub notes.
  • 2571623 – S/4HANA F4 search help is very slow to open.
    • 2573472 – ES CDS: Dump after system copy.
    • 2571346 – Fix for issues involving 1709 search performance.
    • Then Execute the report ESH_CDSABAP_ACTIVSTION in se38.
      (OR)
  • If Enterprise_search is note required then reset it by executing the task list SAP_ESH_RESET in stc01 to ESH initial state.
• Even After GST implementation, the HSN code will update automatically in PO. For that, please implement the below SAP Note, which is not available in S4 GST Master Note.
  • 2635421 – GST in S4 Hana : correction to J_1ig_date_check function module.

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