As a hardcore ABAP developer, I was curious to know, how is an ABAPer affected by this upgrade 7.4. After exploring the system and going through the sap release documents, I have tried to jot down the changes which ABAPers like me would be interested in. And NEW and VALUE Operators are the first features in EhP7 which the ABAPer would be using regularly.

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ABAP 740 VALUE Operator EHP7 Features
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According to SAP news, SAP Enhancement Package 7
for SAP ERP 6.0 contains more than 750 business
functions. The key new features are SAP Fiori, MRP
runs, and data aging objects. EhP7 is the first
enhancement package to be optimized for both the SAP
HANA database and the traditional certified
databases.
As a hardcore ABAP developer, I was curious to know,
how is an ABAPer affected by this upgrade 7.4. After
exploring the system and going through the sap
release documents, I have tried to jot down the
changes which ABAPers like me would be interested
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in.
And NEW and VALUE Operators are the first features
in EhP7 which the ABAPer would be using regularly.
NEW – Instance Operator
i) NEW – Initial Value for All Types
ii) NEW – Single Value for All Data Types
iii) NEW – Structures
iv) NEW – Internal Tables
v) NEW – Classes
VALUE – Value Operator
i) VALUE – Initial Value for All Types
ii) VALUE – Structures
iii) VALUE – Internal Tables
In this post, I would like to show some usage of NEW
Operators for Initial Value for All Types.
Please note NEW <TYPE>( ) is the syntax to instantiate
any object.
Quick Reference for Vistex
Technical
Offshore Development
Model in 10 Steps
* Type declaration
TYPES: BEGIN OF ty_marc,
matnr TYPE matnr,
werks TYPE werks_d,
END OF ty_marc.
* Type Ref To
DATA o_ref TYPE REF TO ty_marc.
* Example 1
* Instantiate the object
o_ref = NEW ty_marc( ).
* Usage demo
SELECT SINGLE matnr werks FROM marc INTO o_ref->*.
IF sy-subrc EQ 0.
* Displaying the fields as we used to do earlier
WRITE:/ o_ref->*-matnr, o_ref->*-werks.
ENDIF.
* Example 2
* Instantiate the object using #
o_ref = NEW #( ).
* Usage demo
SELECT SINGLE matnr werks FROM marc INTO o_ref->*.
IF sy-subrc EQ 0.

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Please note NEW # ( ). When “#” succeeds NEW, it
means the object ref in the Left Hand Side determines
the type.
This is a small post to make you aware of the new
syntax. Both above constructor expressions have the
same function. I will post more on NEW and VALUE
operators in subsequent posts.
If you are already in EPH7, you might like to check
some excellent posts by Naimesh on EHP740 with
examples of OOPs.
Oops!! Before I sign off, are you wondering how the
output would look like.. .. Nothing new. Output is
same as before EhP7.. No upgrade in output display..
Please check our next post NEW Operators – Single
Value for all Data Types.
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* Displaying the fields as we used to do earlier
WRITE:/ o_ref->*-matnr, o_ref->*-werks.
ENDIF.

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