Use the
SAP
BW Register Tables wizard to browse through InfoCube
and ODS table metadata. You can then select such SAP BW metadata objects
as tables and columns that you want to use as data sources in SAS
Data Integration Studio. The wizard then creates jobs that can extract
data from the selected SAP BW source tables and load it into a SAS
library.
Follow these steps to
select SAP BW objects using this wizard.
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Select
StartProgramsSASSAS Data Integration Studio to
start SAS Data Integration Studio.
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Select
FileRegister Tables to start the
Register Tables wizard.
The
Register Tables page is displayed.
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Select
Enterprise ApplicationsSAP BW and click
Next. The
SAP Server page is
displayed.
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From the
Configured
SAP Server list box, select the SAP server that you can
use to connect to your SAP BW system. From the
SAP Metadata
Location list box, select the SAS library to use for
storing the SAP InfoCube and ODS table metadata. Click
Next.
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If a
Log
On dialog box is displayed, enter a user name and password
to connect to the SAS application server that you want to use to run
a SAS session. Click
OK.
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The
Select View page
is displayed, where you choose to either browse or search your data.
For this example, select
SAP BW Explorer and
click
Next. The
SAP BW Browser page
is displayed.
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Expand the tree in
the
SAP BW Browser page as needed to browse
through the hierarchy of InfoAreas, ODS objects, and InfoCubes. Select
an ODS object or InfoCube.
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After you select an
ODS object or InfoCube in the
SAP BW Browser,
click
Next to display the next page in the
SAP
BW Register Tables wizard. If you selected an ODS object,
the
Select Columns page
is displayed. If you selected an InfoCube, the
Select InfoObjects page
is displayed.
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If you selected an InfoCube,
choose the InfoObjects that you want to include when writing metadata
to your metadata repository and click
Next.
The
Select Columns page
is displayed. If you selected an ODS object, skip this step.
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On the
Select
Columns page, select the columns that you want to include
when writing metadata to your metadata repository and click
Next.
If you specified an InfoCube, the
Select Extraction Options page
(for InfoCubes) is displayed. If you specified an ODS Object, the
Select Extraction Options page
(for ODS Objects) is displayed.
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In the
Select
Extract Options window, select or specify these items:
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a change data capture (CDC) option
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whether you want to create a SAS
view (if you selected an ODS Object)
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an extraction date (if you selected
an InfoCube)
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the local SAS library where you
want to store the data
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a metadata folder location to store
the table metadata about the objects that you are extracting from
SAP
Click
Next.
The wizard finish page is displayed.
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Review the metadata
about the jobs and tables that are to be written to the metadata repository.
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After you make your
selections, click
Finish. The metadata is
written to the metadata repository, and the jobs to load your SAP
BW data into the SAS library that you specified are created. If an
error occurs, the SAS log is displayed.