SAP HANA SPS 08 - What’s New? Client Interfaces

1. SAP HANA SPS 08 - What’s New?
Client Interfaces
SAP HANA Product Management May, 2014
(Initial Information and news with SPS 08)

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Agenda
Current Client Availability
SAP HANA dataprovider for Microsoft ADO.net
SAP HANA client released for Windows 2012

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Current Client Availability I (SPS 07, May 2014)
Product Operating System Status Valid since
HANA client AIX 5.2 Released 30.11.2012
HANA client AIX 5.3 Released 30.11.2012
HANA client AIX 6.1 Released 05.09.2011
HANA client AIX 7.1 Released 05.09.2011
HANA client HP-UX 11.31/IA64 64BIT Released 05.09.2011
HANA client LINUX REDHAT EL5/X86_64 64BIT Restricted Released 07.11.2011
HANA client LINUX REDHAT EL6/X86_64 64BIT Released 05.12.2011
HANA client LINUX SUSE SLES10/X86_64 64BIT Released 05.09.2011
HANA client LINUX SUSE SLES11/IA32 32BIT Released 05.09.2011
HANA client LINUX SUSE SLES11/X86_64 64BIT Released 05.09.2011
HANA client LINUX SUSE SLES11/ZSERIES 64BI Released 31.08.2012
HANA client OS/400 V7R1 Released 25.06.2012

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Current Client Availability II (SPS 07, May 2014)
Product Operating System Status Valid since
HANA client SOLARIS/SPARC 10 Released 05.09.2011
HANA client SOLARIS/SPARC 11 Released 08.11.2012
HANA client SOLARIS/SPARC 9 Not Released 31.08.2012
HANA client SOLARIS/X64 10 Released 05.09.2011
HANA client SOLARIS/X64 11 Released 08.11.2012
HANA client WIN 7 32-BIT Released 05.09.2011
HANA client WIN 7 64-BIT Released 05.09.2011
HANA client WIN VISTA 32-BIT Released 05.09.2011
HANA client WIN VISTA 64-BIT Released 05.09.2011
HANA client WIN XP 2002 PROF. 32-BIT Released 05.09.2011
HANA client WINDOWS SERVER 2008/IA32 32BIT Released 05.09.2011
HANA client WINDOWS SERVER 2008/X64 64BIT Released 05.09.2011
HANA client WINDOWS SRV 2008 R2/X64 64BIT Released 05.09.2011

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SAP HANA data provider for Microsoft ADO.Net
First step to support Microsoft Entity Framework.
Data access API to write programs for the .NET Framework. Preferred data access
component for the Microsoft .NET Framework, allows to access relational database
systems.
Implements the Sap.Data.Hana namespace and allows to write programs in any .NET
supported language, such as C# and Visual Basic .NET, and access data from SAP HANA
database servers.
New component within the HANA client package
(Windows only)
Beta Version will no longer be available (previously available via Note 1943963)
What’s New in SAP HANA SPS 08: SAP HANA Client
Microsoft ADO.Net support

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SAP HANA client released for Microsoft Windows 2012
Just the next operating system version
Note:
Regarding SAP Kernel …
… Windows 2012 (R1+R2) HANA client is released for
SAP KERNEL 7.21 EXT 64-BIT UC
SAP KERNEL 7.41 64-BIT UNICODE
J2EE ENGINE SERVERCORE 7.40
What’s New in SAP HANA SPS 08: SAP HANA Client
Windows 2012

7. More Information

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SAP HANA documentation
 SAP Help Portal
– SAP HANA Data Provider for Microsoft ADO DOTNET Reference
– SAP HANA Client Installation Update Guide
SAP HANA website
 www.saphana.com
Miscellaneous
 Software Component (PPMS): HDB_Client
 Support Component (CSS, OSS, BCP): HAN-DB-CLI
 Product Availability Matrix
– Go for SAP HANA Platform Edition 1.0
o HANA Client - Details
What’s New in SAP HANA SPS 08
More information

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How to find SAP HANA documentation on this topic?
SAP HANA Platform SPS
 What’s New – Release Notes
 Installation
– SAP HANA Server InstallationGuide
 Security
 Administration
– SAP HANA Administration Guide
 Development
– SAP HANA Developer Guide
 References
– SAP HANA SQL Reference
• In addition to this learning material, you find SAP HANA documentation on
SAP Help Portal knowledge center at http://help.sap.com/hana_platform.
• The knowledge center is structured according to the product lifecycle: installation, security, administration,
development. So you can find e.g. the SAP HANA Server Installation Guide
in the Installation section and so forth …

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Thank you
Contact information
Joerg Hoffmeister
SAP HANA Product Management
AskSAPHANA@sap.com
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