SAP S/4HANA

Progress DataDirect for ODBC for SAP S/4HANA 

An asterisk (*) indicates support that was added in a hotfix or software patch subsequent to a release.

For a list a list of issues resolved since general availability, refer to the fixes.

Version 8.0.1

Enhancements

• The driver has been enhanced to support SAP BW/4HANA and other SAP ODATA V2 services exposed through the SAP NetWeaver Gateway.
• The driver has been enhanced to support CDS views that require parameters.
• The driver has been enhanced to support HTTP Header authentication for use with the S/4HANA sandbox hosted at https://api.sap.com.
• The driver has been enhanced to determine the maximum size of VARCHAR columns within the result set metadata using the new Maximum Varchar Size connection option.
• The driver has been enhanced to support a default value of 100000 for the Web Service Fetch Size connection option.
• The curl library files that are installed with the product have been upgraded to version 7.75.0, which fixes a number of potential security vulnerabilities. For more information on the vulnerabilities resolved by this enhancement, refer to: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/vulnerabilities.html. This upgrade is available starting in build 08.02.0239 of the curl library files.

Version 8.0.0

Features

• The driver supports SQL read and write access to SAP S/4HANA Cloud instances.  
• The driver supports all ODBC Core and Level 1 functions and some Level 1 and Level 2 features.
  
• The driver supports SAP S/4HANA data types through data type inference. 
• The driver supports basic authentication. 
• The driver supports the handling of large result sets with paging and the Fetch Size (FetchSize) Web Service Fetch Size (WSFetchSize) connection options.
• The driver supports optimizing insert, update, and delete operations with the Batch Update Chunk Size (BatchUpdateChunkSize) connection option.
• On Windows platforms, the driver includes the DataDirect ODBC Driver Configuration Manager for quick configuration and testing of your driver. This Configuration Manager allows you to:
  • Configure data sources
  • Generate and edit connection URLs
  • Test connect data sources and connection URLs
  • Execute SQL commands for testing;
  • Fetch OAuth tokens
  • Access connection property descriptions and the full product documentation