Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
The topic of this video tutorial series is What’s New for SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 01
and in this video we will discuss application lifecycle management.
Hi, I am Denys van Kempen.
Before we take a look at what’s new,
let’s first take a look at what we had in the first place.
Here we have the lifecycle management UI that was introduced with SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 08
from June 2014.
HANA application lifecyclement management, HALM or ALM in short.
This is a HANA XS classic model web application, which you could launch from HANA studio or
directly using the URL.
For those new to the topic, for HANA there is a platform lifecycle management tool and
an application lifecycle management tool.
With the platform tool you install the HANA server, the client, and any additional component,
like AFL (the application function library) and also options, like Dynamic Tiering.
With the application lifecyclement management tool you install applications that run on HANA,
powered by HANA, so to speak.
This could be products developed by SAP or an application built by you.
We are not concerned here with platform lifecycle management and will just focus on ALM.
With the ALM tool you would install products, or delivery units, define your transports
- so you could package an application to go from dev to production -
and you can use native SAP HANA transport - built-in, that is - or CTS
SAP’s Change and Transport System.
At the end of this video, I will show you resources where you can get more information, for those new to the topic.
Here, we will just focus on what’s new.
So, what’s new?
The User Interface, the UI, for ALM has been changed completely.
We now have an XS advanced model application (XSA), built for HANA 2.0 and the future.
You launch ALM from the new HANA 2.0 cockpit.
We have three links.
Install, update and uninstall XSA components, XSA products, and Show history.
Components are like delivery units, the DU’s of HANA 1.
Products are products.
And if we switch to ALM, you can see we have the same three items here.
Components, Products and Installation History.
Here you select your space and using the Install/Update button, you can start the installation.
For example, you can use ALM to install SHINE (SAP HANA Interactive Education)
the demo application that ships with HANA.
Now, there are couple of prerequisites.
You need the service broker and portal services and so on.
It is all documented in the SHINE Guide.
So, I won’t go through all of this.
That’s a different topic.
It is all pretty straight forward.
Select the component.
Any extension descriptor file, if applicable.
Select Continue.
Here you can verify any depencies and support info for the component and then select Install.
We will add a video about how to install SHINE using the new ALM tool and add it to this playlist.
So, stay tuned.
OK.
So much for what’s new for applicaiton lifecycle management.
Installing and Updating Products and Software Components in SAP HANA XS Advanced Model is
documented in the SAP HANA Administration Guide.
You can read this guide online or download it, free of charge, from the SAP Help Portal
on help.sap.com, under SAP HANA platform.
Make sure you select the correct version.
Then there is also a guide that explains the concepts behind ALM for XSA, which supports
the MTA model, for Multi-Target Applications.
Couple of new acronyms we can add to our collection.
And there is also this How To: Configure SAP HANA XSA for CTS.
I will add include the links to both documents in the description page of this video and
also post them to a blog.
Finaly, there is SAP note: 24 28 375, which contains the Release Notes for
SAP HANA Application Lifecycle Management for SAP HANA 2.0 SPS 01
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