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Wednesday, 14 April 2021

View for external Access (The ‘8’ View) for

aDSOs in BW/4HANA 2.0 Mixed modelling
In this blog post, I would focus on
some of the key aspects of the
generated view for external
access or the external SAP HANA
SQL View for aDSOs in BW/4HANA
2.0 by a use case scenario. The
view is generated with naming Total Pageviews
convention as following : /BIC
(namespace)/A<technical 1,698,859
name of the aDSO>8.

We are all well familiar with the

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below generated tables of aDSOs : SAP HANA Certification Material
(depending on the type of
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particular aDSO they are relevant)

/BIC/A<technical name of the aDSO>1 : Inbound Table for aDSO.

/BIC/A<technical name of the aDSO>2 : Active Data Table for aDSO.

/BIC/A<technical name of the aDSO>3 : Change Log Table for aDSO.

And the generated views :

/BIC/A<technical name of the aDSO>6 : View for Extraction from aDSO.

/BIC/A<technical name of the aDSO>7 : View for Reporting for aDSO.

Now with BW/4HANA 2.0, we have another view generated with name :
/BIC/A<technical name of the aDSO>8 : View for external Access for
aDSO.

It is recommended that the view for external access to be used in mixed

modelling scenarios or exposing data to 3rd party consumers, while on the
contrary, the usages of the database tables directly are discouraged & not
supported by SAP. However, direct access to these tables is said to be
supported in routines scripted in HANA being used in transformations

1. New controller technical flag : “COLD_STORE_FLAG”.

2. The internal & external formats of amount type keyfigures.

There’s another interesting feature for aDSOs with non-cumulative key

figures – the marker for non-cumulative keyfigures. The reference points
are exposed with an additional column with naming convention as following
: “<Column Name>_NCUM_REFP“. More details about this can be found in
above mentioned SAP help portal link.

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Note : All newly created aDSOs in BW/4HANA 2.0, will have this ‘8’ view Labels
generated by default. For pre-existing aDSOs prior to the introduction of
database developer Dynamic-Tiering
this feature, a reactivation is needed in order to have this view generated.
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For this blog post, I have a standard aDSO with technical name : sap-hana-xs sap-hana2 sap-xs
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SALESADSO, which contains some sales data for 2019 & 2020.
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The view for external Access for DataStore SALESADSO is generated as : statistics xs xsjs

/BIC/ASALESADSO8.
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CREATE VIEW "<DB Owned Schema>"."/BIC/ASALESADSO8" (
"BILL_NUM", Successful
"BILL_ITEM", implementation of
Cumulative Sum in
"BILL_DATE",
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"COLD_STORE_FLAG", A cumulative sum is
"SALESORG", a sequence of partial sums of a
"PLANT", given sequence. For example,
the cumulative sums of the
"COMP_CODE",
sequence {a, b, c, ...} are a, ...
"CO_AREA",
"DISTR_CHAN", Expose CDS Views
"CALDAY", as OData Service
"CALMONTH", In continuation to
previous blog Core
"CALYEAR", Data Services in
"BILL_TYPE", ABAP in this blog I will show
"MATERIAL", how to create CDS Views and
step by step procedure to...
"QUANTITY",
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"AMOUNT__EXT", Business Partner in
"AMOUNT__INT", S4 HANA –
"CURRENCY", Customer Vendor
Integration
"UNIT" ) AS SELECT
It’s been almost 2
"BILL_NUM" , years I have started my journey
"BILL_ITEM" , in SAP world. I started with
"BILL_DATE" , Technical domain for some time
and I landed in Functional d...
CAST( "COLD_STORE_FLAG" AS NVARCHAR(1) ) ,
"SALESORG" , Custom Flexible
"PLANT" , Workflow steps
"COMP_CODE" , Introduction In this
"CO_AREA" , blog post, you will
see how to create
"DISTR_CHAN" , and configure a complex Custom
"CALDAY" , Flexible Workflow for Purchase
"CALMONTH" , Order approval....
"CALYEAR" ,
SAP PDMS 1.0 FP02
"BILL_TYPE" , On-premise edition
"MATERIAL" , 1.0 (Configuration –
"QUANTITY" , Pt.2)
CAST( CONVERT_CURRENCY( amount => "AMOUNT", In the first part of
my documentation (pt.1) , I
source_unit => "CURRENCY", have explained and showed in
target_unit => "CURRENCY", detail how to proceed with the
steps => 'shift', mandatory landscape and
compo...
schema => '<DB Owned Schema>',
client => '<Client ID>' ) AS DECIMAL (000017,
000002) ) , Featured post
"AMOUNT" ,
"CURRENCY" ,
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"UNIT"
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FROM ( SELECT
Part One
"BILL_NUM" ,
"BILL_ITEM" , Introduction In my first part I try
"BILL_DATE" , to explain what is the main
'' AS COLD_STORE_FLAG , difference between R/3, SAP ERP
"SALESORG" , and S/4. As you can see from the
"PLANT" , pi...
"COMP_CODE" ,
"CO_AREA" ,
"DISTR_CHAN" ,
"CALDAY" ,
"CALMONTH" ,
"CALYEAR" ,
"BILL_TYPE" ,
"MATERIAL" ,
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After reactivating the aDSO with the external Cold Storage tiering enabled,
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let’s check the DDL of the regenerated ‘8’ view once again from database
catalog. Now DDL creation statement looks like below : Posts

CREATE VIEW "<DB Owned Schema>"."/BIC/ASALESADSO8" ( Comments

"BILL_NUM",
"BILL_ITEM",
"BILL_DATE",
"COLD_STORE_FLAG",
"SALESORG",
"PLANT",
"COMP_CODE",
"CO_AREA",
"DISTR_CHAN",
"CALDAY",
"CALMONTH",
"CALYEAR",
"BILL_TYPE",
"MATERIAL",
"QUANTITY",
"AMOUNT__EXT",
"AMOUNT__INT",
"CURRENCY",
"UNIT" ) AS SELECT
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"BILL_NUM" ,
"BILL_ITEM" ,
"BILL_DATE" ,
CAST( "COLD_STORE_FLAG" AS NVARCHAR(1) ) ,
"SALESORG" ,
"PLANT" ,
"COMP_CODE" ,
"CO_AREA" ,
"DISTR_CHAN" ,
"CALDAY" ,
"CALMONTH" ,
"CALYEAR" ,
"BILL_TYPE" ,
"MATERIAL" ,
"QUANTITY" ,
CAST( CONVERT_CURRENCY( amount => "AMOUNT",
source_unit => "CURRENCY",
target_unit => "CURRENCY",
steps => 'shift',
schema => '<DB Owned Schema>',
client => '<Client ID>' ) AS DECIMAL (000017,
000002) ) ,
"AMOUNT" ,
"CURRENCY" ,
"UNIT"
FROM ( SELECT
"BILL_NUM" ,
"BILL_ITEM" ,
"BILL_DATE" ,
'' AS COLD_STORE_FLAG ,
"SALESORG" ,
"PLANT" ,
"COMP_CODE" ,
"CO_AREA" ,
"DISTR_CHAN" ,
"CALDAY" ,
"CALMONTH" ,
"CALYEAR" ,
"BILL_TYPE" ,
"MATERIAL" ,
"QUANTITY" ,
"AMOUNT" ,
"CURRENCY" ,
"UNIT"
FROM "/BIC/ASALESADSO2"
UNION ALL SELECT
CAST( "BILL_NUM" AS NVARCHAR(10)) ,
CAST( "BILL_ITEM" AS NVARCHAR(6)) ,
CAST( "BILL_DATE" AS NVARCHAR(8)) ,
'X' AS COLD_STORE_FLAG ,
CAST( "SALESORG" AS NVARCHAR(4)) ,
CAST( "PLANT" AS NVARCHAR(4)) ,
CAST( "COMP_CODE" AS NVARCHAR(4)) ,
CAST( "CO_AREA" AS NVARCHAR(4)) ,
CAST( "DISTR_CHAN" AS NVARCHAR(2)) ,
CAST( "CALDAY" AS NVARCHAR(8)) ,
CAST( "CALMONTH" AS NVARCHAR(6)) ,
CAST( "CALYEAR" AS NVARCHAR(4)) ,
CAST( "BILL_TYPE" AS NVARCHAR(4)) ,
CAST( "MATERIAL" AS NVARCHAR(18)) ,
"QUANTITY" ,

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"AMOUNT" ,
CAST( "CURRENCY" AS NVARCHAR(5)) ,
CAST( "UNIT" AS NVARCHAR(3))
FROM "/BIC/OUSALESADSO" ) WITH READ ONLY

Notice the very important change in the DDL sttement here – now it
invokes a union of the previously used Active Data Table of SALESADSO
with the virtual table : /BIC/OUSALESADSO generated in the DB owned
schema. We can see three new virtual tables generated in the above
schema upon activation of the aDSO with Cold Storage Access enablement
in DTO.

The last one is what is used in the ‘8’ view & it secures that the data moved
to Cold Storage successfully is accessed correctly. The ‘OU’ virtual table is
formed by (defined in the external cold storage DB) an inner join of other
two generated virtual tables /BIC/ONSALESADSO & /BIC/ORSALESADSO on
column : ARCHREQTSN with a restriction on REQSTAT = ‘7’ (status
indicating successfully completed archiving request).

The second interesting observation is that the COLD_STORE_FLAG value is

set to ‘X‘ in the select from /BIC/OUSALESADSO, meaning the cold storage
data. This way it is easily distinguished from the Hot Data, where the flag
was set as ‘ ‘ (blank).

We can test it easily by setting up a rule & move some of the data to
external Cold Storage. For SALESADSO, I set up & executed a rule &
moved all the data prior to the year 2020 to Cold Storage.

Now if I preview the data of the generated ‘8’ view on 0CALYEAR level, it
looks like below :

This way it makes it more simpler to have a reporting solution through

mixed modelling approach by consuming this view for external access in a
calculation view (I might come up with another blog post explaining a use
case of the same). Thus we can expose this flag to control whether or not
should the cold storage data be accessed based on the flag value.

Another important thing to notice is the typecasting of characteristic fields

in the select from ‘/BIC/OU‘ virtual table. The reason for this is in the
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external Cold Storage (in this context IQ system), the characteristic fields
are created with increased length. Observation : Even though the note says
it’s created with 4 times the length of the field in HANA, in actual case it’s
thrice the length. However, the measures are not impacted. Below is a side
by side comparison of the characteristic columns between the HANA based
Active Table & the IQ based Virtual Table.

So, to make the union on similar data types of the unique columns the
typecasting is handled by the generated ‘8’ view.

Posted by Sabrina Pinto at 16:13:00

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