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1. When activating Business Content in BI, you can activate DataSources remotely
from the BI system. This activation is subject to an authorization check. You need role
SAP_RO_BCTRA. Authorization object S_RO_BCTRA is checked. The authorization is
valid for all DataSources of a source system. When the objects are collected, the
system checks the authorizations remotely, and issues a warning if you lack
authorization to activate the DataSources.
2. In BI, if you trigger the transfer of the Business Content in the active version, the
results of the authorization check are based on the cache. If you lack the necessary
authorization for activation, the system issues a warning for the DataSources. BW
issues an error for the corresponding source-system-dependent objects
(transformations, transfer rules, transfer structure, InfoPackage, process chain,
process variant). In this case, you can use Customizing for the extractors to manually
transfer the required DataSources in the source system from the Business Content,
replicate them in the BI system, and then transfer the corresponding source-system-
dependent objects from the Business Content. If you have the necessary
authorizations for activation, the DataSources in the source system are transferred to
the active version and replicated in the BI system. The source-system-dependent
objects are activated in the BI system.
3. Source systems and/or BI systems have to have BI Service API SAP NetWeaver 2004s
at least; otherwise remote activation is not supported. In this case, you have to
activate the DataSources in the source system manually and then replicate them to
the BI system.
Copy Process Chains (Developer Functionality):
You find this function in the Process Chain menu and use it to copy the process chain
you have selected, along with its references to process variants, and save it under a
new name and description.
1. Up to Release SAP NetWeaver 2004s, it was not possible to use InfoObjects with a
length longer than 32 characters in hierarchies. These types of InfoObjects could not
be used as a hierarchy basic characteristic and it was not possible to copy
characteristic values for such InfoObjects as foreign characteristic nodes into existing
hierarchies. From SAP NetWeaver 2004s, characteristics of any length can be used for
hierarchies.
2. To load hierarchies, the PSA transfer method has to be selected (which is always
recommended for loading data anyway). With the IDOC transfer method, it continues
to be the case that only hierarchies can be loaded that contain characteristic values
with a length of less than or equal to 32 characters.
Now you can delete active requests in a DataStore object in parallel. Up to now, the
requests were deleted serially within an LUW. This can now be processed by package
and in parallel.
Now you can set the runtime parameters of DataStore objects by object and then
transport them into connected systems. The following parameters can be maintained:
· Package size for activation
· Package size for SID determination
· Maximum wait time before a process is designated lost
· Type of processing: Serial, Parallel(batch), Parallel (dialog)
· Number of processes to be used
· Server/server group to be used
1. For the request operations executed on DataStore objects (activation, rollback and
so on), there is now a separate, detailed monitor. In previous releases, request-
changing operations are displayed in the extraction monitor. When the same
operations are executed multiple times, it will be very difficult to assign the messages
to the respective operations.
1. Up to now it was necessary to activate the data loaded into a DataStore object to
make it visible to reporting or to be able to update it to further InfoProviders. As of
SAP NetWeaver 2004s, a new type of DataStore object is introduced: the write-
optimized DataStore object.
2. The objective of the new object type is to save data as efficiently as possible in
order to be able to further process it as quickly as possible without addition effort for
generating SIDs, aggregation and data-record based delta. Data that is loaded into
write-optimized DataStore objects is available immediately for further processing.
The activation step that has been necessary up to now is no longer required.
3. The loaded data is not aggregated. If two data records with the same logical key
are extracted from the source, both records are saved in the DataStore object. During
loading, for reasons of efficiency, no SID values can be determined for the loaded
characteristics. The data is still available for reporting. However, in comparison to
standard DataStore objects, you can expect to lose performance because the
necessary SID values have to be determined during query runtime.
The Deletion of Requests from the Change Log process type supports the deletion of
change log files. You select DataStore objects to determine the selection of requests.
The system supports multiple selections. You select objects in a dialog box for this
purpose. The process type supports the deletion of requests from any number of
change logs.
1. You can now include InfoCubes in an InfoSet and use them in a join. InfoCubes are
handled logically in InfoSets like DataStore objects. This is also true for time
dependencies. In an InfoCube, data that is valid for different dates can be read.
2. For performance reasons you cannot define an InfoCube as the right operand of a
left outer join. SAP does not generally support more than two InfoCubes in an InfoSet.
Pseudo Time Dependency of DataStore Objects and InfoCubes in InfoSets (Data
Modeling) :
The global properties in InfoSet maintenance have been enhanced by one setting Left
Outer: Include Filter Value in On-Condition. This indicator is used to control how a
condition on a field of a left-outer table is converted in the SQL statement. This
affects the query results: If the indicator is set, the condition/restriction is included
in the on-condition in the SQL statement. In this case the condition is evaluated
before the join. If the indicator is not set, the condition/restriction is included in the
where-condition. In this case the condition is only evaluated after the join. The
indicator is not set by default.
Key Date Derivation from Time Characteristics (Data Modeling) :
Key dates can be derived from the time characteristics 0CALWEEK, 0CALMONTH,
0CALQUARTER, 0CALYEAR, 0FISCPER, 0FISCYEAR: It was previously possible to specify
the first, last or a fixed offset for key date derivation. As of SAP NetWeaver 2004s,
you can also use a key date derivation type to define the key date.
With SAP NetWeaver 2004s, the repartitioning of InfoCubes and DataStore objects on
the database that are already filled is supported. With partitioning, the runtime for
reading and modifying access to InfoCubes and DataStore objects can be decreased.
Using repartitioning, non-partitioned InfoCubes and DataStore objects can be
partitioned or the partitioning schema for already partitioned InfoCubes and
DataStore objects can be adapted.
As of SAP NetWeaver 2004s, you can change the structure of InfoCubes into which you
have already loaded data, without losing the data. You have the following remodeling
options: For characteristics: Inserting, or replacing characteristics with: Constants,
Attribute of an InfoObject within the same dimension, Value of another InfoObject
within the same dimension, Customer exit (for user-specific coding). DeleteFor key
figures: Inserting: Constants, Customer exit (for user-specific coding). Replacing key
figures with: Customer exit (for user-specific coding). DeleteSAP NetWeaver 2004s
does not support the remodeling of InfoObjects or DataStore objects. This is planned
for future releases. Before you start remodeling, make sure: (A) You have stopped any
process chains that run periodically and affect the corresponding InfoProvider. Do not
restart these process chains until remodeling is finished.
(B) There is enough available tablespace on the database.
After remodeling, check which BI objects that are connected to the InfoProvider
(transformation rules, MultiProviders, queries and so on) have been deactivated. You
have to reactivate these objects manually
Parallel Processing for Aggregates (Performance):
1. The change run, rollup, condensing and checking up multiple aggregates can be
executed in parallel. Parallelization takes place using the aggregates. The parallel
processes are continually executed in the background, even when the main process is
executed in the dialog.
2. This can considerably decrease execution time for these processes. You can
determine the degree of parallelization and determine the server on which the
processes are to run and with which priority.
1. You can start multiple change runs simultaneously. The prerequisite for this is that
the lists of the master data and hierarchies to be activated are different and that the
changes affect different InfoCubes. After a change run, all affected aggregates are
condensed automatically.
2. If a change run terminates, the same change run must be started again. You have
to start the change run with the same parameterization (same list of characteristics
and hierarchies). SAP Note 583202 is obsolete.
1. Up to now, the aggregate fact tables were partitioned if the associated InfoCube
was partitioned and the partitioning characteristic was in the aggregate. Now it is
possible to suppress partitioning for individual aggregates. If aggregates do not
contain much data, very small partitions can result. This affects read performance.
Aggregates with very little data should not be partitioned.
2. Aggregates that are not to be partitioned have to be activated and filled again
after the associated property has been set.
Previously you were able to create aggregates either on the basis of a ROLAP store or
on the basis of a MOLAP store. The MOLAP store was a platform-specific means of
optimizing query performance. It used Microsoft Analysis Services and, for this reason,
it was only available for a Microsoft SQL server database platform. Because HPA
indexes, available with SAP NetWeaver 2004s, are a platform-independent alternative
to ROLAP aggregates with high performance and low administrative costs, the MOLAP
store is no longer being supported. Data Transformation (Data Management):
1. A transformation has a graphic user interfaces and replaces the transfer rules and
update rules with the functionality of the data transfer process (DTP).
Transformations are generally used to transform an input format into an output
format. A transformation consists of rules. A rule defines how the data content of a
target field is determined. Various types of rule are available to the user such as
direct transfer, currency translation, unit of measure conversion, routine, read from
master data.
Quantity Conversion :
As of SAP NetWeaver 2004s you can create quantity conversion types using transaction
RSUOM. The business transaction rules of the conversion are established in the
quantity conversion type. The conversion type is a combination of different
parameters (conversion factors, source and target units of measure) that determine
how the conversion is performed. In terms of functionality, quantity conversion is
structured similarly to currency translation. Quantity conversion allows you to convert
key figures with units that have different units of measure in the source system into a
uniform unit of measure in the BI system when you update them into InfoCubes.
You use the data transfer process (DTP) to transfer data within BI from a persistent
object to another object in accordance with certain transformations and filters. In
this respect, it replaces the InfoPackage, which only loads data to the entry layer of
BI (PSA), and the data mart interface. The data transfer process makes the transfer
processes in the data warehousing layer more transparent. Optimized parallel
processing improves the performance of the transfer process (the data transfer
process determines the processing mode). You can use the data transfer process to
separate delta processes for different targets and you can use filter options between
the persistent objects on various levels. For example, you can use filters between a
DataStore object and an InfoCube. Data transfer processes are used for standard data
transfer, for real-time data acquisition, and for accessing data directly. The data
transfer process is available as a process type in process chain maintenance and is to
be used in process chains.
The data transfer process supports you in handling data records with errors. The data
transfer process also supports error handling for DataStore objects. As was previously
the case with InfoPackages, you can determine how the system responds if errors
occur. At runtime, the incorrect data records are sorted and can be written to an
error stack (request-based database table). After the error has been resolved, you can
further update data to the target from the error stack. It is easier to restart failed
load processes if the data is written to a temporary store after each processing step.
This allows you to determine the processing step in which the error occurred. You can
display the data records in the error stack from the monitor for the data transfer
process request or in the temporary storage for the processing step (if filled). In data
transfer process maintenance, you determine the processing steps that you want to
store temporarily.
InfoPackages :
InfoPackages only load the data into the input layer of BI, the Persistent Staging Area
(PSA). Further distribution of the data within BI is done by the data transfer
processes. The following changes have occurred due to this:
· New tab page: Extraction -- The Extraction tab page includes the settings for
adaptor and data format that were made for the DataSource. If data transfer from
files occurred, the External Data tab page is obsolete; the settings are made in
DataSource maintenance.
· Tab page: Processing -- Information on how the data is updated is obsolete because
further processing of the data is always controlled by data transfer processes.
· Tab page: Updating -- On the Updating tab page, you can set the update mode to
the PSA depending on the settings in the DataSource. In the data transfer process, you
now determine how the update from the PSA to other targets is performed. Here you
have the option to separate delta transfer for various targets.
For real-time acquisition with the Service API, you create special InfoPackages in
which you determine how the requests are handled by the daemon (for example,
after which time interval a request for real-time data acquisition should be closed and
a new one opened). For real-time data acquisition with Web services (push), you also
create special InfoPackages to set certain parameters for real-time data acquisition
such as sizes and time limits for requests.PSA :
The persistent staging area (PSA), the entry layer for data in BI, has been changed in
SAP NetWeaver 2004s. Previously, the PSA table was part of the transfer structure.
You managed the PSA table in the Administrator Workbench in its own object tree.
Now you manage the PSA table for the entry layer from the DataSource. The PSA table
for the entry layer is generated when you activate the DataSource. In an object tree
in the Data Warehousing Workbench, you choose the context menu option Manage to
display a DataSource in PSA table management. You can display or delete data here.
Alternatively, you can access PSA maintenance from the load process monitor.
Therefore, the PSA tree is obsolete.
Real-time data acquisition supports tactical decision making. You use real-time data
acquisition if you want to transfer data to BI at frequent intervals (every hour or
minute) and access this data in reporting frequently or regularly (several times a day,
at least). In terms of data acquisition, it supports operational reporting by allowing
you to send data to the delta queue or PSA table in real time. You use a daemon to
transfer DataStore objects that have been released for reporting to the ODS layer at
frequent regular intervals. The data is stored persistently in BI. You can use real-time
data acquisition for DataSources in SAP source systems that have been released for
real time, and for data that is transferred into BI using the Web service (push). A
daemon controls the transfer of data into the PSA table and its further posting into
the DataStore object. In BI, InfoPackages are created for real-time data acquisition.
These are scheduled using an assigned daemon and are executed at regular intervals.
With certain data transfer processes for real-time data acquisition, the daemon takes
on the further posting of data to DataStore objects from the PSA. As soon as data is
successfully posted to the DataStore object, it is available for reporting. Refresh the
query display in order to display the up-to-date data. In the query, a time stamp
shows the age of the data. The monitor for real-time data acquisition displays the
available daemons and their status. Under the relevant DataSource, the system
displays the InfoPackages and data transfer processes with requests that are assigned
to each daemon. You can use the monitor to execute various functions for the
daemon, DataSource, InfoPackage, data transfer process, and requests.
The workflow and decision process types support the event Process ends with complex
status. When you use this process type, you can control the process chain process on
the basis of multi-value decisions. The process does not have to end simply
successfully or with errors; for example, the week day can be used to decide that the
process was successful and determine how the process chain is processed further.
With the workflow option, the user can make this decision. With the decision process
type, the final status of the process, and therefore the decision, is determined on the
basis of conditions. These conditions are stored as formulas.
You use this function to decide whether the system command process is successful or
has errors. You can do this if the output of the command includes a character string
that you defined. This allows you to check, for example, whether a particular file
exists in a directory before you load data to it. If the file is not in the directory, the
load process can be repeated at pre-determined intervals.Repairing and repeating
process chains :
You use this function to repair processes that were terminated. You execute the same
instance again, or repeat it (execute a new instance of the process), if this is
supported by the process type. You call this function in log view in the context menu
of the process that has errors. You can restart a terminated process in the log view of
process chain maintenance when this is possible for the process type.
You use this function to schedule and execute the process in the dialog, instead of in
the background. The processes in the chain are processed serially using a dialog
process. With synchronous execution, you can debug process chains or simulate a
process chain run.
You use this function in the attribute maintenance of a process chain to classify all
the incorrect processes of the chain as successful, with regard to the overall status of
the run, if you have scheduled a successor process Upon Errors or Always. This
function is relevant if you are using metachains. It allows you to continue processing
metachains despite errors in the subchains, if the successor of the subchain is
scheduled Upon Success.
You use this function in the attribute maintenance of a process chain to determine
which user executes the process chain. In the default setting, this is the BI
background user.
When you access process chain maintenance, the process chain display appears. The
process chain is not locked and does not call the transport connection. In the process
chain display, you can schedule without locking the process chain.
During the check, the system calculates the number of parallel processes according to
the structure of the tree. It compares the result with the number of background
processes on the selected server (or the total number of all available servers if no
server is specified in the attributes of the process chain). If the number of parallel
processes is greater than the number of available background processes, the system
highlights every level of the process chain where the number of processes is too high,
and produces a warning.