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 2016-5-11)

• The Directory Update Assistant utility has been deprecated. For further information please review KB article 2315332.
• New Support Components for SAP Data Services and SAP Information Steward. Please see KB Article 2279392.
• Customer Virtual Coffee Corner for SAP Data Services
• EIM Meet the Expert Sessions (For Enterprise Support and Max Attention Customers)

Latest Release Notes

(updated 2016-5-11)

• 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)
• 2302267 - Release Notes for DQM SDK 4.2 Support Pack 5 Patch 4 (14.2.5.1148)
• 2272953 - Release Notes for DQM SDK 4.2 Support Pack 6 Patch 1 (14.2.6.1070)
• 2304721 - Release Notes for DQM SDK 4.2 Support Pack 7 (14.2.7.1162)
• 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)
• 2284056 - Release Notes for SAP Data Services 4.2 Support Pack 6 Patch 3(14.2.6.1113)
• 2304693 - Release Notes for SAP Data Services 4.2 Support Pack 7 (14.2.7.1156)
• 2294670 - Release Notes for SAP Information Steward 4.2 Support Pack 4 Patch 5 (14.2.4.973)
• 2302283 - Release Notes for SAP Information Steward 4.2 Support Pack 5 Patch 4 (14.2.5.1137)
• 2284057 - Release Notes for SAP Information Steward 4.2 Support Pack 6 Patch 3 (14.2.6.1093)
• 2304711 - Release Notes for SAP Information Steward 4.2 Support Pack 7 (14.2.7.1129)

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 2016-5-11)

• 2308285 - JMS Adapter Configuration using Realtime Data Flow RTDF
• 2310665 - Blank DPV status for new US addresses
• 2314252 - AL_RWJobLauncher: error while loading shared libraries: libebus.so.3.3.2.7 - Data Services
• 2314782 - The Usage column for a table in a Datastore shows 1 when it should be 0 in SAP Data Services
• 2305951 - Unable to export failed data with a user with Data Insight User account rights - Information Steward

Events

(updated 2016-5-117)

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

• Customer Virtual Coffee Corner
  • SAP Data Services and SAP HANA
    • Session 1 - May 24, 2016 - 2:00 PM EDT\11:00 AM PDT
    • Session 2 - May 25, 2016 - 10:00 AM EDT\2:00 PM GMT
• 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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