SAP Note 3255746 now ships as a patch that blocks third-party tools from pulling SAP data through the ODP RFC interface, and the temporary opt-out expires in December 2026. Lima Backbone extracts SAP data through the interfaces SAP keeps open to partners. A free one-week assessment tells you exactly which of your extraction jobs are affected and what replaces each one.
ODP (Operational Data Provisioning) is the framework inside SAP that packages data for consumers such as BW. RFC (Remote Function Call) is the protocol many third-party integration tools used to call it. SAP declared that use unpermitted, and since June 2026 a patch enforces it. Until December 2026 a customer can opt out of the enforcement; after that, any extraction job that reaches SAP through ODP over RFC stops.
Many connectors sold for SAP-to-cloud replication were built on the ODP RFC interface because it was convenient. The assessment looks at each of your jobs by the mechanism it uses, whatever tool runs it, and marks the ones that stop in December.
The same methods work on ECC 6.0 and on S/4HANA, so pipelines you build now are the ones you keep after the migration.
| Method | What it is | Latency | Deletes | SAP licence needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Table reads named function module | Full or filtered reads of transparent tables such as MARA, MARC, STPO, EKPO and VBAP, in parallel | Minutes for full loads | Full compare or change log | None |
| BAPIs · function modules | Business-object reads and acknowledged writes — planned orders, purchase requisitions, material changes | Seconds | n/a | None |
| CDS views S/4HANA | SAP-defined views with built-in delta capability | Minutes | Yes, on delta-enabled views | None |
| Change-data capture | Inserts, updates and deletes since the last run, from timestamps, change pointers or triggers | 1m 48s behind SAP in the showcase estate | Yes | None · SLT optional for log-based capture |
| IDocs | Outbound documents and inbound postings in SAP's own document format | Near real time | n/a | None |
The assessment is free and takes a week. The conversion of your first ten extractions is a fixed-price engagement.
Snowflake, Databricks, Fabric, planning systems and reporting databases receive the same tables at the same cadence; only the extraction path is new.
Extraction runs on Lima's capacity through open interfaces, so there is no capacity-unit or replication-service subscription to add for getting data out.
Every run reports record counts and control totals against the source; exceptions go to an owner.
The same methods run on both, so the pipelines carry across the migration and the ECC retirement that follows.
A subscription sized by capacity tier. The bill stays the same whether you move a nightly delta or your full history.
Half of ECC customers will still be on ECC at the end of 2027. Pipelines on open interfaces serve the planning program now and the decommissioning later.
One engine underneath every page in this family. It reads from any source and writes to any target, runs batch loads or change-data streams, handles a nightly delta or a multi-terabyte migration, and is licensed by capacity, so the bill stays the same however many rows move. Lima's fabric answers questions on data in place; Lima Backbone moves, transforms and returns data on a deadline. When to federate and when to pipeline · The Backbone hub.
Yes, SAP supports it, and Lima uses it where it fits. Practitioner reports put it at roughly a tenth of the throughput of RFC-based extraction for large volumes, which is why Lima uses table reads, CDS views and change-data capture where volume matters.
There is no ABAP add-on. Lima connects through standard RFC authorizations, and where a customer-approved function module is used for table reads it ships as a transport your Basis team reviews.
Jobs that relied on extractors through ODP RFC are rebuilt on CDS views on S/4HANA, or on table reads with change-data capture on ECC and S/4HANA. Counts are compared against the old feed during the parallel run.
Several widely used connectors are built on the ODP RFC interface. The assessment identifies the mechanism behind each of your jobs regardless of the tool that runs it.
Lima is preparing its listing through SAP's partner program; the certification tier decision is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2026 and will be stated here with its date.
Yes. Table reads, BAPIs and change-data capture work on both, and CDS views are added on S/4HANA. The migration reuses the pipelines you build now.
A free one-week assessment: every job inventoried by mechanism, exposure marked, a named replacement for each.
