Hi Richard,
Give me a week or so - I will provide you the answer on this. I have not used this for a long time so need to check my old notes.
For the time being, I would prefer you to move to SP09. HANA SP09 have Smart Data Streaming (SDS) which is closely integrated with HANA. It's life cycle is managed by HANA cluster, works with HANA users, can use DU, has monitoring views, integrated with HANA studio, SDS HANA adapter and CCL HANA reference table. I would suggest you to move SDS since this is where we ESP dev team will be putting more afford.
Thanks,
Dilip