Enabling delta in Data services while extracting from BW
Hi Experts, We have the requirement to enable delta mechanism in DS while extracting data from SAP BW active data tables and loading into DS Staging area Oracle db. Ex: Day 1 - Active data table in BW...
View ArticleAutomatically restart batch job on failure?
I have a large job that takes about 45 minutes to run, and it fails from time to time for various reasons. When this happens, I simply restart it and 99 times out of 100 it will finish just fine. What...
View Article6 month on.. My observations on Data Services vs SSIS
Hi all, I'd like to share some observations on my first six months working with Data Services. I have previously worked with SSIS for several years and have some minor experiense with Datastage also....
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wait function
Hi All, Please provide me inputs, Here is my scenario.I came up with wait_for_file( $GV_FILE_PATH || '/' || $GV_FILE_TYPE || '*' || '.TXT',0,0,1,$GV_FILE_NAME); to check the path and find the file to...
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DS schedule does not start
Hey all,I have a question about SAP DS scheduling, because I have created a job scheduling, which does not work. In my opinion I have set all necessary option correct. The problem is, that the job does...
View ArticleBODS BW extractor - configuring delta
Hi All, We are using SAP BODS 4.2 to extract data from source (Oracle DB) to target (SAP BW). And need to configure delta logic based on say timestamp field for daily loads. If the source contains the...
View ArticleCan we use multiple delimiters while extracting multiple files using single...
Hi, I need to extract data from multiple files of a shared folder using flat file. I get two types of files, delimiters vary as ' | and , '. Currently I am extracting using two flat files, but I need...
View ArticleConnecting to a Progress database in BODS 3.1
Hello, Can anybody how i can connect to a Progress database in BODS 3.1? Thanks!
View ArticleIssues connecting to a SQL Anywhere repo from the Designer
I have installed DS4.2 SP2 on a number of Suse 11.1 Linux VMs using all of the standard settings, and making use of the bundled SQL Anywhere database as my repo. I am getting an error in the Designer...
View ArticleData Services: Queries???
Hi Experts, Can you please help me on the below points?Is Data service/ Data quality solution is available as hosted application?Can you confirm the data duplication process how is this managed without...
View ArticleDifferent datastores for different schemas
Hello, In Dataservice 4.2 if we have an individual datastore for each of our DW schemas even though they are all on the same database would this negatively affect performance because bods would think...
View Articlehow to find a most recent file in a path
Hi Guys, I am creating dynamic files in a path. So the file name is like ABC20150626.csv.Now in the next step I am using a wait for file() command.Now the problem I am facing is when I am doing...
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SQL Server to HANA:Performance
Hi, I am loading data from SQL server to HANA using BODS. The load type is simple one-to-one mapping. What I have done for performance:DOP=3Number of loaders=4commit size=5000monitor sample rate=50000...
View ArticleSFTP connection issues
Hi Experts, I could able to connect to the Internal FTP site . But when i tried to connect to SFTP . It's throwing some error , i searched over SDN and in google but i am not able to find any...
View ArticleReading Email with Data Services
Hi , How to read email on data services ? ( Outlook, Gmail or company mail ...)We can send but didn't find how reading email. Somebody did something about this subject? Thanks.
View ArticleCopy a job
Good day everyone, Is there a way to copy a job to new one, I tried creating and new job and then copy and paste the items from source job, then I modified the objects in the copy job but it turns...
View ArticleErrors after upgrade to 4.2 DS from earlier version
Target database is Oracle. I have upgraded DS 4.0 and DI 11 to DS 4.2, after upgradation I have ran into issues: 1) Some sql function are not working.2) Packages are taking more time to...
View ArticleQuery on Job scheduling in a multi-node DS environment
Hello SAPiens, This is for the first time, we are trying to implemet DS load balacing (cluster) by installing one more DS instance on different host and trying to achieve load balancing by creating...
View ArticleConverting Data Integrator 6.5 to Data Services 4.2
Is there any step by step document to convert DI 6.5 to DS 4.2. Any checklist, pitfall, etc to watch out for.
View ArticleDS similar tools.
Good day everyone. Which are the tools or apps that are similar to Data Services. I would like to compare DS against similar apps for ETL processing. Thanks in advance.
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