Does SAP stop/terminate ITS support in the future? - truth or just gossip

[Former Member]

I've heard a gossip about SAP will terminate the ITS functionality in the near future.

Does anyone know something exact about this theme, what is the SAP official slant in this question?

If it is true, what is the alternative solution instead of ITS functionality is WAS?

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Andras Heger

[former_member228142]

Hi Andras,

SAP provides different frameworks to program user interface. The most often used framework is the SAP dynpro programming model which is probably used by 80-90 percent of SAP applications. ITS is the technology to display screens based on the dynpro framework in the browser. Because dynpros are so widely used it is very unlikely that SAP will terminate support for ITS in the near future. On the SAP Service Marketplace (http://service.sap.com) following official information can be found for the oldest release of ITS, ITS 6.20 standalone:

ITS 6.20 - supported 'longterm'
The date for end of support for release 6.20 depends on the maintenance deadlines for the SAP products which need the SAP ITS 6.20. 
As long as one of these products is supported, the ITS 6.20 will also be supported.
Currently the product with the longest lifecycle is SAP ECC 5.0 (until 31st of March 2013).

For integrated ITS which is a functionality of SAP Netweaver 2004/7.0 the maintenance timeline is as long as for the SAP Netweaver release.

As you see you can expect ITS to be healthy for quite long time.

Please also check the ITS FAQ: <a href="https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/home/itsFAQs&">https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/wiki?path=/display/home/itsFAQs&</a>

Best regards,

Klaus