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Hi experts, we have the requirement to implement an SAP Data Services (version 4.3) job consuming an external REST web service that uses Kerberos for authentication. The general approach seems to be clear: We need a WADL file defining the endpoi...

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Hi experts, we want to implement a REST webservice call with Data Services. Unfortunately, the webservice owner does not provide a wadl. And in addition the response of the webservice is not returned “inline” (i.e. not as part of the payl...

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As often in life there are different ways to achieve an objective. This is also true for our business where often not just one software tool exists to meet the business demands (not only we at SAP can tell a thing or two about it). In my last projec...

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Hi experts, from time to time we observe a very strange behavior of Data Services. When we start a batch job (it doesn’t matter if the job is started from the Designer or via command line) it happens occasionally that the job seems to be started,...

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Hello experts, I’m currently involved in data migration project where we want to use the Match Review functionality of Information Steward for the review of business partner duplicates identified by a Data Services job. Since we identified a lo...

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Hi Rohit,a couple of years ago I wrote a blog How to replace Informatica PowerCenter by SAP Data... - SAP CommunityEven if we replaced Informatica by the on-premise solution SAP Data Services the general approach should apply to CI-DS as well.Best re...

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The history of job runs are stored in the repository table AL_HISTORY.To select the timestamp (start time) of the last successful run of a job you can use the following select statement:SELECT MAX(START_TIME) FROM [$GV_RUNTIME_REPO_NAME].AL_HISTORY W...

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Hi Kenneth,I struggled with that issue for a long time, too.Finally I found a hint when I installed the BI Platform Support Tool. Under the link https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Getting+Started+with+the+Windows+client+version#GettingStarted...

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Hi Joseph, thanks for your reply. You’re right, the supported authorization schemas for REST web services can be found here: Authorization schemas for REST | SAP Help Portal. And unfortunately Kerberos is not supported. But we found a workaround...

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Hi Ulrike,are you able to run the batch script with your DS user manually (outside of DS) to check, if the setting really applies to your DS user?Best regardsMarcus

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