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Features in BW 7.0
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Summary
This article gives detailed information on the features of BW- Data Sources in 7.0 and how to use them.
Author Bio
Adlin Sundararaj is working as SAP-BI Consultant in Accenture Services Private Ltd and has got
rich experience on end to end implementation as well as maintenance projects in BW 3.5 & BW 7.0.
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Table of Contents
Data Sources in 3.x ............................................................................................................................................ 4
Data sources in 7.0 ............................................................................................................................................. 4
Unique Features of Data Sources in 7.0 ............................................................................................................ 5
Detailed View of Data Sources in 7.0 ................................................................................................................. 6
Description ...................................................................................................................................................... 6
Application Component ................................................................................................................................... 6
DS for Data Synchronization ........................................................................................................................... 7
PSA in CHAR Format...................................................................................................................................... 8
Opening Balance ............................................................................................................................................. 9
Data Is Language Dependent ....................................................................................................................... 10
Data Is Time Dependent ............................................................................................................................... 10
Delivery of duplicate Records ....................................................................................................................... 11
Content Release Type .................................................................................................................................. 12
Content Version of Data Source ................................................................................................................... 12
Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................................ 12
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 13
Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 14
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Introduction
In SAP BW, Data that logically belongs together is stored in the source system in the form of DataSources.
A Data Source consists of a quantity of fields that are offered for data transfer into BW.
The Data Source is technically based on the fields of the extraction structure.
By defining a Data Source, these fields can be enhanced as well as hidden (or filtered) for
the data transfer.
It also describes the properties of the extractor belonging to it, as regards the data
transfer into BW.
During a Metadata upload, the properties of the Data Source relevant to BW are
replicated in BW.
DataSources are used for extracting data from a source system and for transferring data
into the BW. DataSources make the source system data available on request to the BW
in the form of the (if necessary, filtered and enhanced) extraction structure.
Data is transferred from the source system into the SAP Business Information
Warehouse in the Transfer Structure.
In the transfer rules maintenance, the user determines how the fields of the transfer
structure are transferred into the InfoObjects of the Communication Structure.
The users assign DataSources to InfoSources and fields to InfoObjects in the transfer
rules maintenance.
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If your dataflow is modeled using objects that are based on the old concept (3.x InfoSources, 3.x transfer
rules, 3.x update rules) and the process design is built on these objects, you can continue to work with 3.x
DataSources when transferring data into BI from a source system.
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DataSources for transferring data from SAP source systems are defined in the source system; the relevant
information of the DataSources is copied to the BI system by replication. In this case one speaks of Data
Source replication in the BI system. DataSources for transferring data from other sources are defined
directly.
A unified maintenance UI in the BI system, the Data Source maintenance, enables you to display and edit
the DataSources of all the permitted types of source system. In Data Source maintenance you specify which
Data Source fields contain the decision-relevant information for a business process and should therefore be
transferred.
When you activate the Data Source, the system generates a PSA table in the entry layer of BI. You can then
load data into the PSA. You use an Info Package to specify the selection parameters for loading data into the
PSA. In the transformation, you determine how the fields are assigned to the BI InfoObjects. Data transfer
processes facilitate the further distribution of data from the PSA to other targets. The rules that you set in the
transformation are applied here.
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Description
Under the General Info tab, we need to provide the description for the DS as shown below.
Application Component
Application component is like a folder to group the Data Source Objects. Before creating Data Source we
usually create Application Component and then RClick and create DataSources.
The application component needs to be specified in the field shown below
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For DataSources used live, data-reconciliation DataSources are either delivered with BI Content, or created
in accordance with the properties of the Data Source to be checked.
Data-reconciliation DataSources must support direct access to source data to allow the loaded data to be
compared with the application data, as it exists in the source system.
Using data reconciliation, you can check the completeness as well as the correctness of the data.
If the loaded data is incomplete, there is an error in the delta processing of the data.
If the loaded data is not correct in BI, there is either an error in the extractor logic of the checked Data
Source, or a misinterpretation of the extractor logic.
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This is one of the best features in BI 7.0. No load will fail because of Special Characters etc.
If you select PSA is not typed, means all the PSA (Fields in the tables) will be created with CHAR as data
types (Source may supply anything). That means you can make sure that load till PSA will pass without any
issues.
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Opening Balance
If this indicator is set, the Data Source builds an initial non-cumulative.
A non-cumulative is a non-summarizable key figure at the level of one or more objects that is always
depicted in relation to time. Examples of non-cumulative include headcount, account balance, and material
stock.
To supply an Info Cube that contains a non-cumulative value with data, at least two Data Sources are
required:
One Data Source builds the non-cumulative. It delivers the initial non-cumulative.
One Data Source supplies the non-cumulative values for this non-cumulative, that is, the
in and outflows.
Data Sources from SAP source systems have this property is already set.
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For the settings '0' and '1' you also have to define a key for the Data Source. This can be either in the DDIC
using the maintenance for the corresponding field property of the extract structure fields, or (alternatively or
additionally) in the metadata of the Data source. A field in the Data Source also has the additional attribute '
Data Source Key Field', which transferor corrects the DDIC property where necessary.
DataSources can, for a key, transfer time-independent master data or time-independent texts from multiple
data requests in one request to BW. If data records within a request are transferred to the BW more than
once, in some circumstances this can be explained as application relevant and is therefore not considered to
be an error. BW provides functionalities for handling duplicate data records that can handle such an
ambiguity.
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Content Data Source and the applicable content transformations are assigned to each other and to the
source system using the content release type and the content version.
Conclusion
Hence we came to know General Info of DataSources in a detailed manner.
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Related Content
DataSource
Tab Page: Master Data/Texts
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