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Katherine_K
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How do you extend SAP S/4HANA Cloud to meet your specific needs? What are the extensibility tools in SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP S/4HANA? Gain insight into the concept of extensibility. Learn about the tools that support key users and developers in SAP S/4HANA Cloud and see the extensibility capabilities of SAP Business Technology Platform. This session provides the overview you need to take advantage of the deep-dive extensibility sessions for SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform.

Watch the replay: Extensibility for SAP S/4HANA: The Big Picture
and check out Q&A from the lecture, listed below.

Missed other sessions? Watch all replays here in the session catalog, and if you are interested in Q&A from other sessions - let us know by posting a comment below.

Questions & Answers:

If S/4HANA is On-Premise where is the ABAP CLOUD, in BTP?
It is and remains in the S/4 stack as you know from on-premise. But it follow the ABAP v5 . (In BTP known as steampunk) In S/4HANA Cloud, public, 2208 the embedded steampunk mode is a MUSTin Private Cloud or on premise 2022 is is optional (select mode on object level).

What was your alternative to OPEN DATASET?
Use XCO library in to read files into S/4 HANA Cloud, public.API are released. In SAP extensibility explorer you will find some examples.

How can you do complex customizing in BTP ABAP?
There is release a brand new Extensibility Guide, follow this guide and the path from on-premise to cloud is well described.

So in S/4 Private or On-Premise how do you access the ABAP cloud if it is optional? You must activate it right?
You will NOT activate cloud. You activate the cloud compatible programming model. Everything in on-premise developed under embedded steampunk can also run on public cloud. (scope dependent).

With regard to new job scheduling as classic way of scheduling wont work, which is the preferable new job scheduling tool recommended?
Application Jobs is the new way. Please have a look at SAP Extensibility Explorer to find an example.

Are there SAP tools that can help clients assess readiness for S4HANA (from ECC)?
Here we do NOT have BTP. You are developing in the S/4 system. Here for e.g customizing we offer a simple configuration to give you the possibility to maintain own cust tables. Looks like a successor of SM30.

Looks like lot of challenges between on-prem and cloud version. Any idea how long it took to migrate/re-implement programs?
S/4HANA = There are Custom Code Migration Tools to Migrate to S/4 HANA Cloud - Check the Cloud readiness Check in ATC. There is a note with a check variant to calculate the deviation to be cloud ready for custom code. At 22:00 CET there is a session with Thomas Fiedler and Olga. Don't miss it.

Did I hear correctly ABAP Reports/Programs cannot be used in S/4 Cloud? In addition, SQL must be CDS views?
Yes the former know report on SAP gui is not available. But it is easy to build own on stack Fiori views based on CDS views. No direct access to tables, Only released CDS Views.

Anything released via fast track process will be available for all customers or only for the one requesting it?
All customers can request new local APIs. Follow this link. Fast track is a local version for 1 customer to ensure project can continue. Next SP/FP.. will include the API for all customers.