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Open Hub Destinations
Open Hub Destinations
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SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (Formerly BI), Will also work on SAP BI 3.5. For more information, visit the Business Intelligence homepage.
Summary
This article tells about the Open Hub Destination use and how to use it in case of data down load/ data extraction from InfoCube to Database Table. Author: Surendra Kumar Reddy Koduru
Company: ITC Infotech India Ltd. (Bangalore/INDIA) Created on: 25 February 2010
Author Bio
Surendra Kumar Reddy Koduru is a SAP BI Lead Consultant currently working with ITC Infotech India Ltd (Bangalore/INDIA). He has got rich experience and worked on various BW/BI implementation/Support projects.
Table of Contents
Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Use of Open Hub ................................................................................................................................................ 3 Structure ............................................................................................................................................................. 3 Integration ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 Creating Open Hub Destinations: ....................................................................................................................... 4 Step 1 .............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Step 2 ............................................................................................................................................................ 11 Step 3 ............................................................................................................................................................ 13 Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 17 Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 18
Introduction
The open hub destination is the object that allows you to distribute data from a BI system to non-SAP data marts, analytical applications, and other applications. It ensures controlled distribution across multiple systems. The open hub destination defines the target to which the data is transferred. See the following figure outlines how the open hub destination is integrated into the data flow:
Structure
The open hub destination contains all the information about a data target: the type of destination, the name of the flat file or database table and its properties, and the field list and its properties. BI objects such as InfoCubes, DataStore Objects, InfoObjects (attributes or texts), and InfoSets can function as open hub data sources. Note that DataSources may not be used as the source.
Integration
You can use the data transfer process to update data to the open hub destination. This involves transforming the data. Not all rule types are available in the transformation for an open hub destination: Reading master data, time conversion, currency translation, and unit conversion are not available.
2. In the context menu of your InfoArea, choose Create Open Hub Destination.
3. Enter a technical name and descriptions. i.e. Object Type is InfoCube and Name is InfoCube Technical name.
4. On the Destination tab page, select the required destination. Here Im selecting the Database Table as Destination.
Once we select the Database Table, then the system automatically proposes the Technical name of the Table, it will starts with /BIC/OH<Youre Open Hub Name> For Reference see SAP Help.
If we check the Deleting Data from Table option, every time the data will be deleted from Table i.e. before dumping new data into table, the old data will be deleted.
Note: Once you save and activate it, you can see the table in SE11 Tcode.
5. On the Field Definition tab page, you can see the fields list (from InfoCube).
Save and Activate. Once you activate it then it will display the following message, if any errors are there then it will through the error message, here we dont have any problem to generate table.
Some time if you dont have authorizations to create a table then you will get the error message. So before creating the Open Hub Destination with Database table, please check the authorizations.
Now go to SE11 Tcode and give the table name and see the Table in the system.
Step 2 Creating the Transformations. Right click on our Open Hub Destination and then create Transformation between Open Hub Destination and InfoCube.
Give the Source and Target details like below. i.e. Our InfoCube Technical name and Open Hub Destination Technical name.
After giving the details then Press Enter. In the following screen you can see the Transformations and mappings; the system will propose the mappings automatically. Save and Activate.
Step 3 Creating Data Transfer Processes between InfoCube and Open Hub Destination. Right click on our Open Hub Destination and Create DTP.
The system will take the default values, see the following screen.
Check the parameters in the above screen and then press Enter. Save and Activate the DTP, you can see the different options in the Extraction Tab, we can select either Delta or Full. Here I selected Delta.
With delta we will get any new/modified records i.e. from InfoCube to Database Table.
Finally see the Extraction Tab. Once every thing is fine then execute it.
Once it is Success, you can see the below screen with Green lights.
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