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Data Services within the SAP BI staging processBy Bhargav Gandhi, Tata Consultancy Services 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 based SAP 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
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Connecting SAP BI with Data Services In
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 TC RSA1 and select Modeling
from the navigation area. Pick the entry Source Systems. 3. Position the cursor on the External System folder, and choose Create from 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".
The PROGRAM_ID is 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)
The server 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)
Type rfcsvr -aDEMO_SRC -g/H/172.17.10.162/S/3300 -xsapgw00
and hit Enter. It should not return anything
7.
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. 
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