ReleaseNotes_2012_Q4

Release Notes Q4 / 2012 AGS Service &Support Infrastructure

November 2012

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Agenda

Basic Information

Business Suite & Business Analytics

Business One


Release Notes Q4 / 2012

Basic Information

The release dates for the Support Applications in 2012 are scheduled for:

Purpose of Release Notes

The purpose of Release Notes is to give users of the Support Applications a brief overview of the

enhancements or new developments, which will be available in the forthcoming release.

Release Notes Cycle

Release Notes are scheduled for the end of every development quarter.

Dev Q2 Dev Q3 .

Sept 1, 2012 March 3, 2012 June 2, 2012

Dev Q1 Dev Q4

Nov 24, 2012

Dec 01, 2012


Agenda

Basic Information


SAP Support Portal Enhancements

• New features in the Product Availability Matrix 2.0

• New Password Expiry Alert

• Stronger password policy for S-users in SMP

• Maintain e-mail Domain

• Customer Messages

• Quick Sizer Version 30 Change List

• Support Newsletter

• New Remote Service: HTTP-based Tools

• Partner WTS: General availability of all remote services

Business One


New features in the Product Availability Matrix 2.0 (1/2)

Basic Information

Target Group:

Target System:

Technical Go Live:

Business Go Live:

Feedback Component:

Customer / Partner

SAP Support Portal

December 01, 2012

December 01, 2012

XX-SER-PAM-CONT or feedback options in PAM footer

Description of Enhancement

With the Q4 transport e.g. following new features will be available in the PAM 2.0:

• 5 Market Categories as filter options and attribute of a software product version

• New filter ‚My Company„s Licensed Software Products„

• Link to a software product versions download area in the SAP Software Distribution Center

• Additional search field in the search results area and default number of displayed search results per page is 20 instead of 8

• In a software product version‟s technical release information

• for OS and DB now detailed maintenance end information is displayed

• in the overview table and in the detailed view for a product instance its technology type is displayed

(e.g. if it is an ABAP, Java 2 Enterprise Edition or a dual stack)

• In the overview table it is now shown how many release information entries there are for a product instance x release

category combination

See screenshots on next page


New features in the Product Availability Matrix 2.0 (2/2)


New Password Expiry alert

Basic Information Screenshot

Target Group:

Target System:

Technical Go Live:

Business Go Live:

Feedback Component:

Customer / Partner

SAP Support Portal

November 24, 2012

December 01, 2012

XX-SER-SAPSMP


A blue Password Expiry icon in the SAP Support

Portal„s header indicates if the user„s password has

not been changed for more than 12 months.

Clicking it opens the Change password form.

Other icons:

• System News (purple icon)

the news is displayed when clicking the icon

• SSO expiry (orange icon)

a pop-up is opened with the option to renew the

certificate or postpone the reminder


Stronger password policy for S-users in SMP


Target Group:

Target System:

Technical Go Live:

Business Go Live:

Feedback Component:

Customer / Partner

SAP Support Portal

November 24, 2012

December 01, 2012

XX-SER-SAPSMP-USR


In order to protect your data security, new

password rules apply for new passwords:

Your password must:

• Be 8 characters long

• Include at least one letter (a-z, A-Z) and one

number (0-9). Note: the password is not case-

sensitive

• Include at least one special character from the

following set: ! \ " @ $ % & / ( { [ ] } ) + - * = ? ' ~ #

_ . , ; : < >

• Not contain any blanks

• Not start with ? or !

• Not begin with 3 identical characters

• Be different from the last 5 passwords


Maintain e-mail Domain


Target Group:

Target System:

Technical Go Live:

Business Go Live:

Feedback

Component:

Customer/Partner

SAP Support Portal

November 24, 2012

December 01, 2012

XX-SER-SAPSMP-USR


Maintain e-mail domain enhancements:

• The list provides now the history of deleted

domains, including “date of deletion”, “time

of deletion” and “which user or SAP” has

deleted the email-domain.


Customer Message Search

Basic Information

Target Group:

Target System:

Technical Go Live:

Business Go Live:

Feedback Component:

Customer / Partner

SAP Support Portal

November 24, 2012

December 01, 2012

XX-SER-SAPSMP-SUP


Enhancement to Customer Message Search Results

• Messages and notes will be opened in uniquely identified windows so that you may have multiple messages/notes displayed at the

same time.

• Message Search Results table will show the Automatic Closing date for messages in Customer Action or Solution Provided status


Quick Sizer Version 30 Change List

Basic Information

Target Group:

Target System:

Technical Go Live:

Business Go Live:

Feedback Component:

Customer / Partner

SAP Support Portal

December 01, 2012

December 04, 2012

XX-SER-SAPSMP-QS


Change List

• A new questionnaire for ‚SAP Retail Point of Sales Data Mart‟ was introduced

• The values for I/O were decreased and are now available for all applications

• Result categories:

- were revised for all SAP solutions (except of SAP In-Memory Computing which stay the same): new values are

XS (<8000 SAPS) , S (<16,000 SAPS), M (<32,000 SAPS), L (<48,000 SAPS), XL (<72,000 SAPS) , and XXL (>72,000 SAPS)

- Result categories for SAP NetWeaver BW were now the same as for all SAP solutions (except SAP In-Memory Computing)

- Result category XXXL was deleted

• Analytics Solutions: „SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence„ questionnaire was updated


Support Newsletter


Target Group:

Target System:

Technical Go Live:

Business Go Live:

Feedback

Component:

Customer / Partner

SAP Support Portal

November 24, 2012

XX-SER-SMP


Newsletter format enhancement

• Newsletter layout has been updated


New Remote Service: HTTP-based Tools

Basic Information

Target Group:

Target System:

Technical Go Live:

Business Go Live:

Feedback Component:

Customer / Partner

SAP Support Portal

December 01, 2012

December 01, 2012

XX-SER-NET / CSA-SPE-STFK


New remote service: „HTTP-based Tools “

• Remote service used for applications based on the HTTP/HTTPS protocol but not able to handling web-proxy environments

• Customers can find setup information in SAP note 1787981


Partner WTS: General availability of all remote services

Basic Information

Target Group:

Target System:

Technical Go Live:

Business Go Live:

Feedback Component:

Internal / Partner

CSS / SAP Support Portal

December 01, 2012

December 01, 2012

XX-SER-NET / CSA-SPE-STFK


Partner WTS: General availability of all remote services

• Partner WTS is now able to handle all existing remote services such as SAP HANA database remote connection or new HTTP-

Connect


Agenda

Basic Information


Business One

SAP Support Portal Enhancements

• B1 License Key Application

• DRQ in B1 Partner Dashboard


B1 License Key Application

Basic Information

Target Group:

Target System:

Technical Go Live:

Business Go Live:

Feedback Component:

B1 Customer / B1 Partner

SAP Service Marketplace (OW1, OW2)

December 01, 2012

December 01, 2012

SBO-CRO-SMP


Enhancements for B1 license key application

• Add “SAP B1 VERSION FOR SAP HANA” in PV selection.

• Offer selection for DB size for a B1 system NDB.


Development Requests in B1 Partner Dashboard


Target Group:

Target System:

Technical Go Live:

Business Go Live:

Feedback

Component:

B1 Partner

SMP (OW1, OW2)

December 01, 2012

December 01, 2012

SBO-CRO-SMP


`DRQ in B1 PD

• Integrate Development Request information.

into Business One Support Dashboard to

facilitate the DRQ information check for

partners.

Documents

ReleaseNotes_2012_Q4