Hi Experts,
Not sure if the question has been answered earlier, but I couldnt find in SCN.
We are currently using SAP BODS 4.2 with SAP BW 7.4 as source to pull data from BW.
When we are using BODS to get data out of BW using OHD, we are gettting warnings with date conversion. When date field in BW doesnt have any value, BODS is giving a warning, the issue doesn't occur when the date has values in BW. The error is as below
RUN-053006: Cannot convert string < > to date using format string <yyyymmdd>.
We have tried the following options:
1. Using nvl, ifthenelse with combination of trim functions to avoid the warnings
2. Changed the metadata in BODS for the date fields to varchar fields, but it has converted dates to 000000 or 01011900.
We have realised the error is generated at the OHD operator itself not during the transformation.
As of now BODS job is running with desired output, however
1. Job is taking more time
2. Monitor log is showing as empty
3. Warnings are generated for each date field where it is blank in BW.
Any solution to these data conversion warnings would help us in reducing job run time.
Thanks in advance.