ABAP 7.53

6 New Features in ABAP 7.53 – Data Dictionary and Internal Tables

07/26/2020

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Dear SAPLearners, in this blog post we will learn about Data Dictionary and Internal Tables new features in ABAP 7.53 system release.

Here is the kernel release and S/4 HANA version corresponding to ABAP 7.53

ABAP Release	Kernel Release	S4 HANA Release
ABAP 7.53	7.73	1809

Let’s dive 🏄 into the changes of ABAP 7.53 release. This blog post talks about changes added in ABAP technical areas; Data Dictionary and Internal Tables.

A full list of changes/features 🎁 in ABAP 7.53 is available here.

Also Read: Whats New Features added in ABAP 7.4 release

👉 ABAP Dictionary

1. Cluster and Pooled tables

All table pools and table customers are removed from the system. Existing pooled tables and cluster tables are converted into Transparent tables.

There will not be any support from SAP going forward.

2. Limit of no.of fields

In this release there are limits imposed on no.of fields and length of the structure in database tables, database view and CDS view.

Below table shows the limitations

Transparent table:

	Row Store	Column Store
No.of fields	1000	1500
ABAP Structure length	No limit	No limit

Database views and CDS views:

No.of fields	1500
ABAP Structure length	No limit

👉 Internal Table

1. New predicate in WHERE condition

A new prediction expression IS NOT INSTANCE or IS INSTANCE can be used in the WHERE condition of internal table processing statements LOOP AT itab, MODIFY itab and DELETE itab.

Internal table iterator FOR also supports this predicate expression. Below is the list of predicate expressions supported and not supported.

Supported	Not supported
IS [NOT] INITIAL IS [NOT] BOUND IS [NOT] INSTANCE OF	IS [NOT] ASSIGNED IS [NOT] SUPPLIED

2. Syntax error in COLLECT statement

The COLLECT statement is used to sum the values of its numeric fields based on primary table key fields.

In earlier versions, If the datatype of non-primary table key fields is not numeric, internal error occurred during program execution. By this release a syntax error will be displayed.

Also Read: Virtual Sorting of ABAP Internal Table

👉 Open SQL

Open SQL is renamed to ABAP SQL which allows to use statements which only support SAP HANA database platform. So it will be no longer fully platform-independent.

👉 New Date and Time Functions

Following are new date and time functions available for general use in ABAP code.

Time Functions:

TIMS_IS_VALID

Shows whether the argument is a valid time.

Timestamp Functions:

TSTMP_IS_VALID	Shows whether the argument is a valid time stamp.
TSTMP_CURRENT_UTCTIMESTAMP	Current UTC time stamp.
TSTMP_SECONDS_BETWEEN	Difference between two time stamps in seconds
TSTMP_ADD_SECONDS	Total of seconds and a time stamp.

Date/Time Conversions:

TSTMP_TO_DATS	Local date of a time stamp.
TSTMP_TO_TIMS	Local time of a time stamp.
TSTMP_TO_DST	Local summer time marker of a time stamp.
DATS_TIMS_TO_TSTMP	Time stamp for a local date and a local time.

Timezone Functions:

ABAP_SYSTEM_TIMEZONE	System time zone of AS ABAP
ABAP_USER_TIMEZONE	User time zone of AS ABAP