Today I started my journey on the road to HANA. Let me tell you, the road to HANA in Hawaii is a lot prettier 🙂 but on the bright side, I’ve been able to do some things that I was told I couldn’t do. Now, please keep in mind, all of my current experiments are being performed on an EHP7 machine running on a HANA DB. I have no idea if any of this will apply to the new S/4 stuff. I’m sure I’ll find out soon enough.
Day 1. I was able to import all of my existing configuration transports into HANA with no issues. I was pretty excited about this, because initially I was told this can’t work. Needless to say, I was skeptical, and since I’m running a virtual machine anyway, what’s the worst that can happen 🙂
With my configuration in place, the next step was to begin creating master data. A lot of my master data is done using GUI Scripting. So, hurdle 2 was to determine if my gui scripts would work in the new system, and would I have to completely rewrite them?
Well, I’m pleased to report, so far, so good. The GUI scripts I’ve tried are working great. I was able to turn on the same configuration and the scripting fired off just like in the other systems.
So far, HANA is an awful lot like my old EHP4/EHP5 system. Which is good news for me 🙂 I’m sure there will be more to come,
Thanks for reading,
Mike