HCI and BW - Ability to call HCI task from BW (7.3) Process Chains

[Krishna1]

HCI Gurus,

Need an advise....

One of our customer  is using BW (7.3 not 7.4). BW is single source of data source for IBP. For initial go-live, manual data loads done and plan is to start HCI for automatic loads.

Need is BW process chains to call HCI tasks (Push data from BW to IBP) and in order to achieve this, we are planning to use Web Services from BW.

Question :

I was given an understanding that Web services option is not available in BW 7.3...Could you please share your experiences on this topic? Is there any other way to achieve this functionality of pushing data from BW to IBP.

Thanks,

Krishna

[Krishna1]

HCI Gurus,

Any advise?

Thanks,

Krishna

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am not sure on Webservice part. But you can try following.

BW Process chain to generate dummy flatfile (txt or csv) on HCI agent server.

Assume BW process chain is scheduled and is completed everyday between 2.30AM to 3.30AM.

Schedule HCI flow with an interval of 1more hour, to extract data from BW.

At the same time, add function wait_for_file() in pre-script of HCI flow, which will ensure if the dummy file is not available then, flow will hang on till the time file is available on HCI Agent server.

I will let you know on webservice scheduling part soon.

Thanks,

Purav

[Former Member]

Hi Krishna,

Have you managed to start HCI tasks using BW process chains and web services?

Thanks,

Pierre