HANA Full Text Index and SQL

Hello Al,

we are going to upgrade to HANA as a primary database and have some questions about how to access some tables.

Now we can create Full Text Indexes on tables using SE11.

With HANA as secondary database, we did this in the HANA studio. We then generated an native HANA-SQL en called that using ADBC.

We could still do the same, But we want to get rid of that native SQL.

Is it correct that one can only use these indexes using the CONTAINS predicate in HANA SQL? This is not available in de ABAP Open SQL? What is then the real advantage of creating the indexes in SE11 in the GUI?

And is the 'correct' way: creating a CDS in the HANA studio, containing the search with CONTAINS, FUZZY and all. Creating an external view in ABAP and reading/using that in Open SQL in ABAP?

Or is there another way to go?

AMDP for instance?

Thanks a lot for any reaction.

Regards.

Kris