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BODS Custom Scheduler - Event Based Sequential Scheduler Technique
Scheduling jobs as per your requirement is quite important and difficult task in BODS. However, now you can do this task, as per your preference.You can create a schedule of jobs, which will execute...
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Data loading from SAP ECC Extractor to SAP HANA using BODS
Purpose of this document is to showcase the functionality of SAP Business Objects Data Services to extract data from predefined SAP ECC datasources(Extractors) and load it in SAP HANA. What are...
View ArticleQ&A Session for ASUG Webcast: What’s New? Data Services and Information...
Q&A Session for ASUG Webcast: What’s New? Data Services and Information Steward SP4 Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2015Q: For HANA SP08 & SP09 what are the Data Services SP/Patch we need to...
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The new Bypass feature explained
One of the enhancements introduced in SAP Data Services 4.2 SP3 is the possibility to bypass the execution of specific work flows or data flows in a job. I am using it a lot , saves me the hassle of...
View ArticleHow to get latest file using wait_for_file() function
Hi All, I am facing issue using wait_for_file function, my requirement is in my source file path C:\FTP\PROD_20150314.csv & PROD_20150314.csv two files having same name with different time factor....
View ArticleTransferring a file from SAP BODS using FTP.
Create a BODS job with the following script in it. exec('E:\FTP.bat','E:\ABC.txt',2); PS:: The 2nd argument you can dynamically specify file name using variables or you can hard code it here and pass...
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SAP BODS advanced Optimization & error handling techniques.
I have used following optimization techniques while working in project. I am sharing my problems and solution which will help you to understand the issues and optimization techniques used for same, 1)...
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Data Profiling With SAP Business Objects Data Services
Data Profiling With SAP Business Objects Data Services Data profiling started off as a technology and methodology for IT use. But data profiling is emerging as an important tool for business users...
View ArticleSAP BODS - Custom Function to SPLIT Single Input Field Value to Multiple...
Custom Function - Word Split Mechanism In BODS, we don't have any specific Logic or Transform to Split Words equally & meaningfully. So as per business requirement, we developed a Custom Function...
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SAP Business Objects Data Services Workbench 4.1 - Basics
SAP Business Objects Data Services Workbench 4.11.1 DS Introduction SAP BusinessObjects Data Services delivers a single enterprise-class solution for data integration, Data quality, data...
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server.start() rfc_bad_connection when trying to start RFC Instance in BODS...
Symptom: After adding a RCF Server Interface in BODS Management Console when we try to start the RFC Instance the following error occurs An internal error occurred server.start() rfc_bad_connection...
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SAP BODS - Multiple Files Generation with STATIC predefined Format in Text File.
SAP BODS - Multiple Files Generation with STATIC pre-defined Format in Text File. Business Requirement:Generate Multiple Output Text files separately for Each Country from a single Input file....
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Data Services Best Practices Job Design Tips
Job Design TipsJob and Dataflow DesignA rule of thumb is one data flow per target table. Try to divide your Data Services application into components with minimal inter-dependencies. This modular...
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Data Services Best Practices Code Management
Code ManagementMultiple Profiles, not Multiple ObjectsWhen naming objects in a multi-user development environment, a developer can be tempted to give names as distinctive as possible. While it is...
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Data Services Best Practices Migration Strategies
Migration StrategiesData Services supports two methods to move code in the development cycle: export/import and using central repository. Export/import method can be used for a small project, while...
View ArticleData Services Best Practices Code Naming Conventions
Code Naming ConventionsThe Data Services objects should be named to make it as easy as possible to identify their function and object type. The following table contains the available objects in Data...
View ArticleSAP Data Services Strategies to execute jobs
Maximizing push-down operations to the database serverSAP BusinessObjects Data Services generates SQL SELECT statements to retrieve the data fromsource databases. The software automatically distributes...
View ArticleSAP Data Services Estimation Guidelines
Assumptions of 100 jobs1. The # of jobs with High complexity - 202. The # of jobs with Medium complexity – 303. The # of jobs with Low complexity – 50 1. Following are the Key Assumptions for approach...
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Understanding SAP BODS
Business Object Data Services (BODS) is a GUI tool which allows you to create and monitor jobs which take data from various types of sources and perform some complex transformation on the data as per...
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RANK in BODS using gen_row_num_by_group() function
Hello, I am trying to explain Ranking in BODS. It plays very important role when your Business Requirement asks you to get most recent value within a group of values. We have a function called...
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