The EIM Bulletin

Purpose

Brought to you by the SAP Product Support EIM Team, The Enterprise Information Management Bulletin (this page) is a timely and regularly-updated information source providing links to hot issues, new documentation, and upcoming events of interest to users and administrators of SAP Data Quality Management (DQM), SAP Data Services (DS), and SAP Information Steward (IS).

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HotTopics

(updated 2016-3-30)

• Are you trying to find a compatible version of Data Services or Information Steward to work with Business Intelligence Platform (BIP) or Information Platform Services (IPS) 4.2? Please read SAP Note 2288394.
• New Support Components for SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward. Please see KB Article 2279392.
• IMPORTANT: If you have downloaded Data Services 4.2 SP6/SP6 Patch 1, but have not installed it, please download and install DS 4.2 SP6 Patch 2 instead. For more information, see SAP Note 2278886 and SAP Note 2275506.
• With the release of Data Services 4.2 SP6 Patch 2, if you have questions regarding compatibility with Information Steward 4.2 SP6/SP6 Patch 1, or you're using Data Services 4.2 SP6/SP6 Patch 1 in Linux/Unix and are confused about the appropriate version of the DS 4.2 SP6 Client Tools to use, please reference KB article 2288313.
• Customer Virtual Coffee Corner for SAP Data Services
• EIM Meet the Expert Sessions (For Enterprise Support and Max Attention Customers)

Latest Release Notes

(updated 2016-2-23)

• 2186615 - SAP DQM for SAP SOL. 4.0 SP07 Release
• 2260475 - Release Notes for DQM SDK 4.2 Support Pack 4 Patch 4 (14.2.4.1019)
• 2260492 - Release Notes for DQM SDK 4.2 Support Pack 5 Patch 3 (14.2.5.1031)
• 2272953 - Release Notes for DQM SDK 4.2 Support Pack 6 Patch 1 (14.2.6.1070)
• 2253266 - Release Notes for SAP Data Services 4.2 Support Pack 4 Patch 4 (14.2.4.1008)
• 2255731 - Release Notes for SAP Data Services 4.2 Support Pack 5 Patch 3 (14.2.5.1023)
• 2277729 - Release Notes for SAP Data Services 4.2 Support Pack 6 Patch 2(14.2.6.1082)
• 2253259 - Release Notes for SAP Information Steward 4.2 Support Pack 4 Patch 4 (14.2.4.973)
• 2255658 - Release Notes for SAP Information Steward 4.2 Support Pack 5 Patch 3 (14.2.5.979)
• 2271304 - Release Notes for SAP Information Steward 4.2 Support Pack 6 Patch 1 (14.2.6.1036)

New Product Features
(updated 2016-1-8)

• Switch Repositories in Data Services Designer - 4.2 SP5
• 2184695 - How to create a debug package in Designer - Data Services 4.2 SP5 P2 and later
• DS 4.2 SP6 New Feature: Viewing (and excluding!) Objects Before Import
• DS 4.2 SP6 New Feature: Where Did I Use that Variable?

Selected New KB Articles and SAP Notes

(updated 2016-2-24)

• 2278630 - Oracle DataDirect ODBC Performance - Data Services
• 2282364 - Real-Time job monitor logging setup - Data Services
• 2280511 - Where can I find the Metadata Management universe for Information Steward
• 2281989 - Real-time service has stopped due to a failure, how to make web server automatically restart it - SAP Data Services
• 2284070 - Information Steward Error - An unexpected problem occurred while decoding JSF component
• 2281150 - Users of the default groups get blank main page after migrating users and groups from BOMM 3.1 - Information Steward

Events

(updated 2016-4-5)

• What are we planning here in EIM Support? Please check out the following opportunities:

• Customer Virtual Coffee Corner
  • Overview of SAP Interfaces Supported by Data Services: Pros and Cons, Requirements, Limitations, Best Practices and Recommendations
    • Session 1 - April 19, 2016 - 2:00PM EDT\11:00AM PDT
    • Session 2 - April 20, 2016 - 11
• Meet the Expert Session Scheduled for April 21, 2016:
  • Configuring AD/Kerberos Single Sign-On for SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward (For Enterprise Support or Max Attention Customers)

• Meet the Expert Session scheduled for May 10, 2016: (Tentative)
  • SAP Data Services - Hadoop Configuration and Overview (For Enterprise Support or Max Attention Customers)
• Meet the Expert Session Scheduled for May 19, 2016:
  • Wdeploy Overview for SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward (For Enterprise Support or Max Attention Customers)

• For more information and links to previous sessions, please visit theEIM Meet the Expertand EIM Virtual Coffee Cornerpages. 
  

Your Product Ideas Realized!

(updated 2015-06-25)

Enhancements for EIM products suggested via the SAP Idea Place, where you can vote for your favorite enhancement requests, or enter new ones.

• Ability to FTP Flat Files Directly from DS
• Disabling workflows/dataflows
• Ability to switch repositories from within Designer without closing/opening
• Option to disable/enable objects in Data Services Designer
• Information Steward Cleansing Package Builder rule tester
• Collect data element from BOMM repository (MMT_DATA_ELEMENT)

Didn't find what you were looking for? Please see:

• Our EIM Home on the SAP Community Network (SCN)
• SAP Support Knowledge Search
• Enterprise Information Management
• Data Services and Data Quality
• SAP Information Steward

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