(Glue-2308) Release Notes 2308

Owned by SNP
Aug 23, 2023
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New Features

Glue Workbench

A new feature for managing Glue objects has been introduced. Unlike the existing Object Navigator, Glue Workbench groups all Glue objects relevant to the specific extraction process and provides a compact overview of the whole configuration.

This tool also solves performance issues of the Object Navigator. A new transaction /DVD/GL_WB2 has been added to access it.

Please, use the following document for more information.

Delta extraction for InfoCubes

ListCube Fetcher now enables you to capture delta when replicating data from InfoCubes. BW request information is leveraged to provide continuous delta replication.

SLT Separate box deployment & Glue Scheduler

The Glue scheduler now supports the replication of data from another SAP system using an RFC connection. By introducing this feature, the whole SLT scenario with (Glue-2308) SLT Integration is covered.

A Glue Scheduler is a tool for scheduling Glue extractions and a central place for scheduling and management of all the replication jobs.
This tool replaces existing Trigger and Queue watchdogs and Extraction Scheduler. These will be deprecated after the 2402 release

Snowflake Snowpipe Streaming

Glue can now ingest data to Snowflake DB using the latest Snowpipe Streaming API. This technology provides lower load latencies, with corresponding lower costs for loading similar volumes of data, which makes it a powerful tool for handling real-time data.

Snowflake Native App: Data Streaming for SAP

Automatic and cost-optimized data processing for the merge operation using the new Native App framework in Snowflake that completes SNP Glue integration with the Snowflake platform – Available in the marketplace (private preview) as “Data Streaming for SAP”.

Please note that the merge functionality orchestrated from SAP Glue Table Consumer (ABAP) will be deprecated as of release 2408. We suggest using Data Streaming for the SAP application instead.

Improvements

SLT

  • Glue SLT integration now supports an extension of field sizes (e.g. change CHAR10 to CHAR20). This adjustment is supported only for higher versions of the SAP SLT (starting with S4 core v. 105).

ODP

  • You can now extract data from various ODP types, whereas in the previous version the only supported ODP type was SAPI (Service Application Interface). Glue now enables you to specify an ODP context and thus specify any ODP type as a data source.

Trigger

  • With the new Glue version, you can use Glue triggers also on Sybase ASE primary database.

Glue Queue

  • You can use Data Dictionary (/DVD/GL11) for manipulation of Glue Queues.

General

  • Glue now provides information about Glue plugins installed on the system. You can access this by clicking the Glue menu icon → About → Plugins.

  • The mass activation/deactivation report has been adjusted to enable the deactivation of Glue objects even if structures on the target storage don’t exist.

Fixes

Data Dictionary

  • You couldn’t import fields from an ODP with a low case name.

Extractors

  • The calculation of the Glue queue size displayed in the Glue cockpit has been corrected.

  • In case you created a fetcher with trigger delta on a view with different field names than the source table, the creation of trigger failed. This has been corrected and you can successfully create a trigger also in this configuration.

  • The merge functionality didn’t work if a table contained decimal floating point numbers.

  • The reverse extraction from MSSQL to SAP was not working correctly. This has been fixed and such extraction now works as expected.

  • The parallel extraction using Mass execution now enables you to use the same field to define both a filter and a data split.

  • In the previous release, in the SAP table fetcher with trigger delta, you could change the parameter Read deleted entries without reactivating the object. Unfortunately, the change was not properly processed and the corresponding extraction process was executed with the original parameter value. As a result, deleted entries were not captured by trigger delta.

    This behavior is corrected in the latest release.

    However, additional action is required to fix fetchers and their extraction processes that have already been altered. You can either manually reactivate relevant fetchers with their extraction processes or contact product_support@snpgroup.com to receive a special report that automatically corrects the metadata for all objects.

SLT

  • The change of source table structure was not always properly handled by Glue SLT. The logic has been enhanced to handle such cases correctly.

Glue scheduler

  • In the Glue scheduler, you could set the parameter “Max jobs for full loads” to 0, which resulted in incorrect behavior when processing full loads. In the new version, a warning message is displayed when such a value is filled.