CAST SAP Extractor NG - Release Notes on Documentation - V2

CAST SAP Extractor NG - Release Notes - 8.5

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

8.5.6-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
58774	Changed the name of the extractor to funcrel, previously “beta-funcrel” was used.

8.5.5-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
51266	Fixes an issue causing an incomplete or corrupted SAP extraction file.

8.5.1-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
51707	Fixes an issue causing the error “Runtime Error : GETWA_NOT_ASSIGNED” when attempting to run the extractor on custom packages (Z, Y).
51682	Fixes an issue where the delivered extractor contained erroneous references to the 8.4.x release of the extractor.

8.5.0-funcrel

Note

This release (and all 8.5.x releases) cannot co-exist on the same SAP instance as previous releases of the CAST SAP Extractor NG, therefore you must uninstall older releases of the extractor before installing this new release. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/DOCCOM/CAST+SAP+Extractor+NG+-+Installation+and+Uninstall+-+8.5.x.

CAST SAP Extractor NG - Release Notes - 8.4

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

8.4.9-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
46975	Provides an update to ensure that it is now possible to extract code from views even when no tables exist.
46975	Provides an update to add functionality to include tables created from joins inside views in the extraction output.

8.4.8-funcrel

Other Updates

Internal Id	Details
SAPEXTR-00000	A new log file has been added to the output extraction zip file.
SAPEXTR-00000	A new menu has been added to the selection screen within the specific function module “ZCAST_SAP_FILE_ZIP_F”. This menu is designed to retrieve all extraction objects in both string and xstring formats.

8.4.7-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
42369	This release implements a new try-catch ABAP statement, to catch any potential codepage_conversion exception reported during the extraction. The new statement will identify the file causing the issue so that this can be dealt with appropriately (for example excluding the file, or altering the file).

8.4.6-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
41024	Fixes an issue where the extraction log file does not contain any information about whether the “Consider CDS” option has been enabled or not. This information is now present in the log file for both of the following scenarios: 1) when extracting dependent tables/views the information is provided in the “ABAP SOURCE CODE Extraction Scope” section. 2) when extracting independent tables/views the information is provided in the “TABLES/VIEWS Extraction Scope” section.

Customer Ticket Id

Details

41024

Fixes an issue where the extraction log file does not contain any information about whether the “Consider CDS” option has been enabled or not. This information is now present in the log file for both of the following scenarios: 1) when extracting dependent tables/views the information is provided in the “ABAP SOURCE CODE Extraction Scope” section. 2) when extracting independent tables/views the information is provided in the “TABLES/VIEWS Extraction Scope” section.

8.4.5-funcrel

Resolved Issues

Customer Ticket Id	Details
40455	This new release contains some additional checks on the S/4 version to fix an issue causing a syntax incompatibility problem with the system version.

8.4.4-funcrel

Feature Improvements

Summary	Details
Tables/Views extraction filter now includes CDS Views	The Table/Views extraction filter (which enables you to extract specific Tables/Views by directly entering their names) will now include CDS Views. Previously CDS Views were ignored for this filter. See https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/DOCCOM/CAST+SAP+Extractor+NG+-+SAP+table+and+view+extraction+-+8.4.x#CASTSAPExtractorNGSAPtableandviewextraction8.4.x-Table/ViewName.

8.4.3-funcrel

Note

Note that in ≥ 8.4.3, with regard to the Uninstall process described in https://doc.castsoftware.com/display/DOCCOM/CAST+SAP+Extractor+NG+-+Installation+and+Uninstall+-+8.4.x#CASTSAPExtractorNGInstallationandUninstall8.4.x-UninstalltheCASTSAPExtractorNG, the second “Package removal transport request” is no longer provided. This is because the authorisation object cannot be removed due to a SAP limitation and for this reason the package will remain in the system (it will be empty but cannot be removed).

CAST SAP Extractor NG - Release Notes - 8.3

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

8.3.2-funcrel

Resolved issues

Customer Ticket Id	Internal Id	Details
-	-	CDS Views referenced in ABAP code are not extracted.

Info

Note that this version of the extractor requires SAP Solution Manager 7.2:

If you try to use it with an older SAP Solution Manager, the extraction may fail.
If you do not have SAP Solution Manager 7.2 or you are not interested in the extraction of CDS Views, please use the most recent service pack for version 8.2 of the extractor (i.e. SAP Extractor NG 8.2.x).

8.3.1-beta1

Resolved issues

Customer Ticket Id	Internal Id	Details
-	-	On certain SAP systems, exception CX_SY_DYNAMIC_OSQL_SEMANTICS is raised when trying to install version 8.3.0 of the extractor.

Info

Note that this version of the extractor requires SAP Solution Manager 7.2:

CAST SAP Extractor NG - Release Notes - 8.2

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Version

Release Date

Description

Shipped with CAST AIP Version

Compatible with CAST AIP Versions

8.2.0

25-Sep-2018

Minor release providing:

Automatic extraction of remote function modules. See Can the extractor extract remote function modules? for more information.

8.2.x, 8.3.x

8.2.1

17-May-2018

Service pack release providing fix for following issue: When specifying to extract table size information (option "Count Number of rows for each entry": YES), the file .SQLTABLESIZE contains the value "X" instead of the row count for each table. (Zendesk ticket 15197)

CAST SAP Extractor NG - Release Notes - 8.0

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Version

Release Date

Description

Shipped with CAST AIP Version

Compatible with CAST AIP Versions

8.0.1

05-Apr-2015

This is the first version of CAST SAP Extractor NG

7.0.x, 7.2.x, 7.3.x

8.0.2

25-Sep-2015

Service pack release providing:

Improved support of older SAP releases by replacing some data types, in order to avoid SYNTAX_ERROR short dumps with
- Type VRSD_TAB is unknown (ticket 2830)
- Type EPS2FILI is unknown (ticket 2520)
Support for type group (type-pools) extraction, either by packages, or when explicitly listed in transport order or object list (ticket 2644)

7.0.x, 7.2.x, 7.3.x

8.0.3

17-Nov-2015

Service pack release providing: