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Connecting to Alteryx via ODBC to SAP HANA Database
Landscape:
1. SAPBPCHANA - BPC Client 2. HANA Studio & SAP GUI 3.
Alteryx Designer
Step 1: Connect to ODBC Driver on computer that has Alteryx
Designer.
a. Login to the Alteryx Designer b. Search for “ODBC” on your
desktop c. Choose “ODBC Data Sources (64-bit)” d.
e. A window will appear. Go to “System DSN” tab and click “Add”
to add a new ODBC connection to your HANA database
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f. Choose “HDBODBC” as the driver to set up a data source g.
Click “Finish”
Note: SAP HANA Client has to be installed on the machine that
has Alteryx Designer as the HDBODBC Driver is within the
installation files of HANA Client
h. Key in a data source name and description i. Key in your
Server and Port of your SAP HANA Database
j. After inserting all necessary details, click “Connect”
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k. Key in your username and password to access your SAP HANA
Database. Press “OK”
l. If connection is successful message “Connect successful!”
will be displayed. m. Connection via ODBC complete. This connection
will be used in Alteryx Designer to import data
from SAP HANA
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Additional Notes: If unsure of server address and port, you can
logon to your HANA Studio and right click on your System->
Properties and Logon. 1. Go to “Database User Logon”---> ”Hosts
Used to Connect” 2. This will be your server address and port
number to connect to for ODBC connection above.
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Step 2: Connecting Alteryx Designer to the SAP HANA ODBC
Connection
a. Open Alteryx Designer and create new workflow b. Drag “Input
Tool” to the canvas c. Double click “Input Tool” to access the
configuration setting d. Click on the drop down button
e. Go to -> Other Databases ->ODBC
f. Choose ODBC Connection that is created in Step 1 g. Key in
your username and password for your SAP HANA DB
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h. You will be able to connect to SAP HANA tables and queries
successfully. Choose your tables, use visual query builder or sql
editor to access the database.
i. Press “OK” to import specific tables or queries.
j. Visual Query Builder can be used to build your query against
HANA Views k. You may drag and drop specific views, select only
selected fields and rename the column fields. [You
can also join few views together with primary and foreign
keys]
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l. The output will be displayed after running the workflow
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Step 3: Getting BW Cube Data into HANA via manual import
a. To view BW Cube data in HANA, cube settings need to be set to
be able to output to External HANA View
b. Log into your SAP GUI BW on HANA c. Go to transaction code
RSA1 to view which cube that you want to import into HANA. d. Take
note of the tech.name -> /CPMB/SKITS7Z
e. Go to transaction code RSDCUBE to change the settings of the
cube f. Key in tech name of the cube -> Edit
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g. Check “External HANA View reporting”
h. Click “Save”
i. After saving, click “Tick” if there are no errors.
j. Activate the cube
k. Now go to HANA studio, go to Quick View perspective. l. If
there is no Quick View perspective in HANA studio, please go to
Window ->Show View-> Quick
View m. Under Quick View -> Click Import
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n. Click SAP HANA Content->SAP Netweaver BW Models o. Then
click “Next”
p. Key in your server credentials [Username and password is SAP
GUI credentials] q. Click “Test Connection” to test your
connection
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r. Connection should be successful. s. Press “OK” t. Press
“Next”
u. Select your target system v. Click “Next”
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w. Select the BW objects that you want to add x. Browse for the
package that you want to save your BW object under y. Click
“Finish”
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z. A job will run to import the BW objects into HANA. aa. Wait
for it to be completed. Once done, you can access BW object data
into your Alteryx Designer
[Usually the views auto-generated are under “_SYS_BIC” catalog
in HANA studio]
