New Functionality Discussions

[Former Member]

Is there a place where developers can provide feedback about suggestions for usability and functionality enhancements? I can for example think of one or two things on the ABAP platform that I would like to suggest, e.g. specific enhancements to the editor and language. Is there a channel that exists for this purpose? If not, SAP would really benefit from starting a specific initiative to gather feedback from developers for enhancement suggestions. The forums could be such a place, no?

[former_member583013 · Accepted solution]

Hi Martin:

Well...I create a WIKI page in the Mentors Private Space to provide feedback to the SAP's Internals Team.

Any comment, suggestion or feedback that you have...You could send it to me or any other Mentor....We should update the WIKI page and SAP would be aware of that -:)

[List of SAP Mentors|https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SAPMentors/ListofallSAPMentors]

[SAP Mentors Twitter ID's|https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SAPMentors/SAPMentorTwitter+IDs]

Of course...No promises that your suggestions are going to be implement, but at least they going to be heard -:D

Greetings,

Blag.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks everybody. You all deserver points for your help. Unfortunately it wouldn't let me give you all 6 points for some reason.

I like the idea of this sticky thread in the Web Dynpro Java forum for enhancement proposals: Maybe something like that could work as well to get community input? (There are 114 replies to that thread, and I don't think there are any differences of opinion or arguments on it, so it's relatively noise-free). How do you feel about that?

Blag, I will take up your offer in the meantime and mail you my ideas.

[Former Member]

Martin,

I can't speak for how things are handled outside of North America, but SAP does offer many opportunities here for feedback. There are probably similar opportunities worldwide, I just can't provide any feedback on those.

For example, at the ASUG/Sapphire conference coming up in 2 weeks here in the US, there are many chances to offer feedback to SAP. If you check out the following link you will see SAP Netweaver Strategy sessions which are run by the Netweaver Product management team and Influence Councils which are run as a partnership between ASUG and SAP:

[Netweaver Strategy and Influence Sessions|http://www.asugannualconference.com/INFLUENCE/SAPNetWeaverSessions/tabid/516/Default.aspx?refer=sdnbanner]

This probably doesn't help much with your particular suggestions, but SAP is listening. There have been quite a few product enhancements and applications driven from the ASUG Influence sessions.

Best Regards,

Chris H.

[marilyn_pratt]

You might also take a chapter from the book [ABAP Editor Backport Journey|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/3914] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]; and speaking to mentor Thomas Jung might be just the ticket. He used a [forum thread|; and his blog entry to generate tremendous conversation and interest. But an additional important ingredient to his success was his long standing commitment and stature in the community. Alvaro makes a good point that it is possible to use the mentor channel, coordinating your efforts with others who have credibility in the community might be a good path. I'm willing to bet that Thomas would be an excellent resource.