SAP Blocked ODP-RFC. Here Is CDS Delta, Deletes Included.
Every SAP extraction pipeline built in the last decade rests on one of a handful of
interfaces. For a great many of them, that interface is ODP-RFC — the RFC modules of
the Operational Data Provisioning framework, RODPS_REPL_*.
SAP Note 3255746 prohibits third-party use of those modules. Not deprecates: prohibits. They are defined as being exclusively for data transfer between SAP applications, and the prohibition covers customer and third-party applications reading S/4HANA, BW or ECC, on-premise or in private cloud. Since 9 June 2026 a security patch in the support packages technically blocks the calls. A temporary opt-out carries non-compliant integrations to the end of 2026, and then it does not.
The note does not leave you without a path. It names what remains permitted, and one item on that list is where SAP developers have been putting their semantics for years: CDS view extraction. So we built that path — and the engine we built it on turns out to be the one SAP's own recommended alternative already runs on.