BW Content and Extractors

Introduction Few years back when I started with my SAP IS-U/BW support project, I had to go through the process of learning on how the extraction takes place from SAP source system for special extractors such as Sales Simulation and how the delta... Read More »

In this block I will discuss about the ECC out of box master data source enhancement to add an additional field . In our business requirement we need field PLANT(WERKS)  and  field Cross plant material status (MTSTB) from T141T in SAP BW flow. We... Read More »

Introduction For BW system we need many times, text datasources based on domain values. We have predefined datasources which are domain based and SAP delivered. With the help of CDS, we can create just only CDS view to support all the domain text... Read More »

My my few recent projects  I have an requirement that in a particular BI report we need to  extract MARA-MATNR,MARC-WERKS ,T141T-MTSTB from ECC to BW. After checking into ROOSOURCE table contain observed that MARA-MATNR,MARC-WERKS  check that We... Read More »

When we activate an inbuild ECC Extractor (LO Extractor for the example) in ECC and from BW/BI side try to replicate it, we need to implement proper Delta Mechanism in InfoPackage. so that only the newly posted record in ECC in extracted using the... Read More »

The main object of this blog is to go though all the concepts that is required to decide which delta mechanism we will use when we will replicate LO Extractors as a BW/BI data source using info Package to build our BW data flow modeling. The Topic... Read More »

Dear Data Warehouse enthusiasts, SAP ABAP Core Data Services (CDS) is a core technology for data modeling in SAP S/4HANA. Due to the fact, that SAP S/4HANA cloud edition does not provide the classic ABAP extractors (aka DataSources) for consumption,... Read More »

Introduction Many a times we need to get the ABAP CDS view for the datasource in B4HANA system. This is needed to check and understand the code/annotations within the CDS view. There is a very simple way we can get the CDS views for a... Read More »

In most of my projects, the CMOD enhancement spot for standard BW extractors, include program of FM EXIT_SAPLRSAP_00* had hundreds of lines code dumped in a single include program. It caused confusion and lead to unintentionally modify the wrong... Read More »

Dear SAP BW enthusiasts! Recently, one of my customers asked me for possible approaches to implement real-time reporting. During preparation my research also covered “Streaming Process Chains” with surprising results. For this reason I thought... Read More »