At ABAP Development Tools in Eclipse, we are developing simple and elegant data preview tools which offers functionality similar to SE16, and also an advanced free-styled open SQL editor to execute and preview results.
Here is a “lab preview” of the Modeled Data Preview editor that we are building, where the users can preview data in any Dictionary Tables, views. The video is 4 minute in length.
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-44175
Here is a “lab preview” of the freestyle open-SQL Data Preview editor that we are building, where the users can write complex open-SQL queries and preview its results rapidly. The video is 2 minute in length.
http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-44324
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Modeled Data Preview
Some highlights of the modeled data preview would be
- Users can specify the size of the previewed result-set.
- Users can add any number of filters. (Internally it would simply mean an AND condition in the WHERE clause)
- Specify any comparators, e.g. EQUALS, LIKE and also IN (as in the above snapshot)
- Sorting (results are fetched from backend up sorting)
- Local filter can be used to further filter in the previewed result set
- Graphically view all the distinct values. Table chart, bar chart and pie chart would be supported
- View the logs of all the queries executed
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Open SQL Data Preview
Some highlights of the open SQL data preview editor would be
- Users need not create any report programs to execute the open SQL query
- Users need not create the ABAP types to hold the result set of the SELECT query(The tool will take care of it internally)
- Users can progressively build and test the open SQL query. Once ready, simply paste the query into your ABAP program
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Could you please give us your feedback on these tools
- How often do you see yourself using these tools?
- Do you think it will help increase your productivity?
- What features do you think are currently missing?
- Overall, how do you like these tools? How would you rate these tools on a scale of 10? (10 = "excellent value")
You can be very honest about your feedback :-)