Data Services XI 3.x is the official name for the EIM
(Enterprise Information Management) platform. BusinessObjects Data
Services is the one platform for data delivery and data quality to
move, integrate, and improve any type of data anywhere at any
frequency. Data Services is both a platform and a product. It is
the platform upon which all new EIM functionality will be basedSAP
BI is the business intelligence platform from SAP.Data Services
tools can be used into the SAP BI staging process, especially for
Non-SAP data, where the enhanced integration capabilities of Data
Services might be required anyway.Following is the procedure for
using Data Services features into the SAP BI staging process - 1.
Load the non-SAP data in the Data Services engine.2. Perform Data
Quality operations on the data in Data Services.3. Load the data
into SAP BIConnecting SAP BI with Data ServicesIn order to allow
the exchange of data and metadata between SAP BI and Data Services,
we have to first establish a connection between both the systems.
On the SAP BI side this is achieved by creating an External Source
System and in Data Services we have to create a new
Datastore....1.Log on to the SAP BI system.2.Start the Data
Warehousing Workbench using TCRSA1and selectModelingfrom the
navigation area. Pick the entrySource Systems.3.Position the cursor
on theExternal Systemfolder, and chooseCreatefrom the context menu
as shown above.4.Enter Logical System Name and Source System Name
as shown above and hit Continue.5.Data Services will start an RFC
Server program and indicates to SAP BI that it is ready to receive
RFC calls. To identify itself as the RFC Server representing this
SAP BI Source System a keyword is exchanged, in the screen shot
above it is "DEMO_SRC". This is the Registered Server Program, the
Data Services RFC Server will register itself with at SAP.
Therefore, provide the same Program ID that you want to use for the
call of the RFC Server on Data Services side. All other settings
for the Source System can remain on the default settings. To
complete the definition of the Source System, save it. 6.Now, start
the RFC Server on the Data Services side so that we can test the
connection and load data from Data services to SAP BI system.a)Open
MS-DOS command prompt. (Start > Run > Type CMD & hit
OK)b)Go to the bin directory/folder for BusinessObjects Data
Services. E.g . - C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects
Data Services\bin>c)Call the program"rfcsvr -aPROGRAM_ID
-gSAP_ROUTER_STRING -xSAP_GATEWAY". ThePROGRAM_IDis the keyword we
used above, "DEMO_SRC" in our example. The Router-String and SAP
Gateway is something the BW admins should know. As a guideline, you
can open the SAP Logon Pad and try the settings there.d)Theserver
here is 172.17.10.162 and the System Number is 00. The router
string could hence be "/H/172.17.10.162/S/3300". The /H/ stands for
the hostname, the /S/ for the port number. The port number can be
derived from the system number, system 00 means port 3300. Same
thing with the SAP Gateway. In a standard standalone installation
the value for this is sapgw00.e)Typerfcsvr -aDEMO_SRC
-g/H/172.17.10.162/S/3300 -xsapgw00and hit Enter. It should not
return anything7.To check the connection, click on Connection Test
as shown below -8.The result would be as shown below in case of a
success.9.The newly entered 3rd party system would appear in the
list of External Systems as shown below.
PoC Loading unstructured data from Flat files into SAP BI using
BusinessObjects Data ServicesLet us take a sample tab delimited
flat file as shown below. (Note - Sample data is placed in an excel
file only for understanding purpose. In actual PoC we will be using
a text file)For the sample flat file used here,click here.Define
the SAP BI system as Datastore in Data ServicesBefore we start
designing a job for our PoC, let us create a datastore for SAP BI
system.1. Open the BusinessObjects Data Services Designer.2. In the
Local Object Library, select the Datastore tab.3. Right click and
select New to create new Datastore as shown below
4. Type in datastore name as shown below.5. Select SAP BW Target
as the Datastore type. This is because we want to load data into
SAP BI and hence SAP BI is the target.6. Enter location/IP address
of the SAP BI system server7. Enter your user name and password for
the SAP BI8. Under Advanced section, enter Client and System
Number. ( You can find system number, application server details
from SAP Logon Pad > Change Item)9. In our example (refer
screenshot 4), enter /H/ as the router string.10. Hit OK.
11. The new datastore BW_PoC_Target_Datastore is now available
under Local Object Library as shown below.
Defining new Flat File format for our sample data1. Open the
BusinessObjects Data Services Designer.2. In the Local Object
Library, select the Formats tab3. Right click on Flat Files format
and select New.
4. You will see File Format Editor window
5. Select/Enter the data as given belowa. Type Delimitedb. Name
PoC_File_Formatc. Root directory Path where the sample flat file is
stored (In our case it is - C:\Documents and Settings\164600\My
Documents\BOBJ Data Services\BOBJ Data Services\Reference
Material\PoC)d. File name In our case it is PoC1.txt. You would see
a prompt to overwrite the current schema.
Hit Yes. Now, you would see your sample data in the editor
window. Note that Designer automatically assigned appropriate data
types based on the input data.
e. Under Delimiters, select Column Tabf. Click Save &
ClosePoC_File_Format is now available under the Flat Files tree in
the Local Object Library as shown below.
