PUBLIC SAP IQ 16.0 SP08 Document Version: 7.0 – 2016-04-13 What's New in SAP IQ 16.0 Content 1 Support Package 08..........................................................5 1.1 PAM User Authentication (New).................................................. 6 1.2 Point-in-Time Recovery (New)....................................................7 1.3 In-Memory Row-Level Versioning on Multiplex (New)...................................12 1.4 SAP IQ Cockpit (New).........................................................13 1.5 Authorizing Optional Features (New).............................................. 14 1.6 OData Support (New).........................................................15 1.7 Database Options (New and Changed).............................................16 1.8 Database Properties (New and Changed)........................................... 17 1.9 SQL Statements (Changed).....................................................18 1.10 Utilities (Changed)...........................................................20 1.11 Stored Procedures (New and Changed)............................................20 1.12 Tables and Views (Changed)....................................................21 1.13 Product Editions (Changed).....................................................21 1.14 Documentation Changes.......................................................22 2 Support Package 04.........................................................23 3 Support Package 03.........................................................24 3.1 New Features in SP03.........................................................24 New JRE Environment Variables and Directories................................... 24 3.2 Behavior Changes in SP03..................................................... 25 FIPS Encryption Support....................................................25 Advanced Security Option Requirement for FIPS and RSA.............................26 4 Support Package 02.........................................................27 4.1 New Features in SP2..........................................................27 Multiplex High Availability....................................................28 Cache Dbspace for Direct-Attached Storage......................................28 LOAD TABLE Supports Loading from Compressed .gzip or .gz Files......................29 4.2 Performance Improvements in SP2...............................................30 LIKE Condition Acceleration..................................................30 4.3 Behavior Changes in SP2.......................................................31 Database Option Changes....................................................31 Encryption Support Changes.................................................33 SAP IQ Implicitly Rebuilds Wide Columns.........................................35 IS [NOT] DISTINCT FROM Search Condition Support................................35 Query Plan Changes....................................................... 36 PUBLIC What's New in SAP IQ 16.0 2 © 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. 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Content SQL Statement Changes.................................................... 37 Stored Procedure Changes.................................................. 38 Table and View Changes.................................................... 40 Deprecated Features.......................................................40 4.4 SAP Control Center Changes....................................................41 5 Support Package 01.........................................................43 6 Initial Release............................................................. 44 6.1 Read This First: Helpful Hints Before You Start Using SAP IQ 16.0..........................45 6.2 New Features...............................................................49 SAP Control Center........................................................50 Concealment of Sensitive Information in Output Requests.............................51 Connection Blocking .......................................................52 Global Transaction Resiliency.................................................53 Login Redirection......................................................... 55 RLV Data Store for Write-Optimized Storage......................................55 Scale-Up and Scale-Out Performance Features....................................56 Security Management......................................................62 Shared System Temporary Store..............................................67 Table Partitioning.........................................................68 System Secure Feature Keys.................................................69 6.3 Performance Improvements....................................................69 Cache Ejection........................................................... 70 DQP Performance Improvements..............................................70 Micro Query Performance Improvement......................................... 71 6.4 Discontinued Features.........................................................71 JDBC™ 3 Connectivity.......................................................72 JDBC-Based Server Classes..................................................72 LOAD TABLE Statement: Discontinued Syntax.....................................72 Time Series Analysis.......................................................73 Discontinued Database Server Startup Options....................................73 Discontinued Indexes.......................................................74 Discontinued Login Policy Option..............................................74 Discontinued Time Series SQL Functions.........................................75 Discontinued TLS and HTTPS Certificate and Certificate_Password Protocol Options.........77 Discontinued Tables and Views................................................77 Discontinued Tools and Utilities............................................... 77 6.5 Deprecated Features......................................................... 79 Deprecated Database Options................................................ 79 Deprecated Database Server Startup Options.....................................80 Deprecated Stored Procedures............................................... 80 What's New in SAP IQ 16.0 PUBLIC Content © 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. 3 Deprecated System Tables and Views...........................................81 Deprecated User Management Functionality...................................... 81 Deprecated Environment Variables.............................................81 6.6 Behavior Changes........................................................... 82 Backward Compatibility: Changes to Default Behavior............................... 83 Backward Compatibility: Migration Considerations..................................86 Connection Changes.......................................................88 Database Option Changes...................................................90 JRE and Java Runtime Environment Variable Changes...............................96 Logical Server Policy Option Changes...........................................97 Login Policy Option Changes................................................. 98 ODBC Driver Changes......................................................99 Query Plan Changes.......................................................100 SQL Function Changes.....................................................102 SQL Statement Changes................................................... 103 Stored Procedure Changes..................................................110 Table and View Changes....................................................116 Utility Option Changes..................................................... 119 6.7 Administration Tool Changes...................................................120 SAP Control Center Changes.................................................121 6.8 Documentation Collection Changes.............................................. 124 SAP IQ Documentation Collection.............................................125 PUBLIC What's New in SAP IQ 16.0 4 © 2016 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. Content 1 Support Package 08 New features, performance improvements, behavior changes, and user interface changes were introduced in SAP® IQ 16.0 SP08. If you are updating from an earlier release or support package, you must run the ALTER DATABASE UPGRADE command. In this section: PAM User Authentication (New) [page 6] Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) support lets you write programs that rely on authentication independently of the underlying authentication scheme. Point-in-Time Recovery (New) [page 7] Point-in-time recovery restores all committed database operations to a specified point in time. A point in time can be expressed as a timestamp and timezone, or as a log offset. This feature is available for new SAP IQ 16.0 SP08 databases and databases upgraded to 16.0 SP08. In-Memory Row-Level Versioning on Multiplex (New) [page 12] In-memory row-level versioning (RLV) is now supported in multiplex. SAP IQ Cockpit (New) [page 13] SAP IQ Cockpit is a new graphical administration tool for on-board management and monitoring of SAP IQ. SAP IQ Cockpit will replace SAP Control Center in a future support package. Authorizing Optional Features (New) [page 14] New license checkout behavior requires the DBA to authorize access to any optionally licensed