Core Data Services – Standard Utilities / Reports

Introduction:

CDS Views can be created and viewed only from ABAP Development Tools (ADT) .The objective of this blog is to list down some standard utilities related to CDS Views which would allow us to gain information on these views from SAP GUI.

These reports will be useful for users who are not having access to ADT tools or not able to access the system from ADT due to missing authorization.

Core Data Services in ABAP

Core Data services (CDS) are domain specific languages (DSL) and services for defining and consuming semantically rich data models in SAP HANA. They are integral part of SAP HANA, and can be leveraged in the ABAP stack.

Core Data Services are enhanced “view entities” in ABAP provides several advantages:.