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ABAP Core Data Services
ABAP CDS for short. The ABAP Core Data Services implement the general CDS concept for AS ABAP . They use a CDS DDL to define CDS entities that implement a semantic data model. A CDS DCL makes it possible to develop CDS roles for CDS access control. CDS SDL and RAP BDL define CDS service definitions and CDS behavior definitions for ABAP RAP. CDS TDL is available to define CDS types.
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