SAP BW & SAP ABAP dataflow??

[Former Member]

Hi Friends,

Am new to SAP BODS....I have few questions regarding SAP BW source and ABAP dataflow..

1.what is SAP-BW ??(whether its a application or database)

2. How the datas we will be stored inside SAP BW...(Files or Database or objects etc.,)

3.what is ABAP??

4.what is ABAP dataflow??(why they are using separate  flow for extracting data from SAP BW)

5. Why they are using Data Transporter as a target in ABAP dataflow ??

Thanks,

[Former Member]

hi! gokul

..

1.what is bw?

ans: SAP BW is an application and it also act as an database for SAP ECC system data which is an TRANSCATIONAL data for month....and SAP bW store the HISTORIAL DATA WHICH IS USED BY SAP BO people to make the reports like webi,crsytal reports.

2.how the data are stored in SAP BW?

ans: IN SAP BW CONCEPT..we have following names as

INFO PROVIDER

INFOAREA

INFOCUBE

DATASTOREOPRATIONS(dso)

INFOSOURCES

         IN INFOCUBE AGAIN WE STORE THE DATA AS ATTRIBUTE AND MEASURES..

WHERE      attribute contains characteristic data

measure contains quantificable data like quantity-so;d,sales etc.

3.what is ABAP?

ans: ABAP is an SAp programming languages...it has following things in it..

ABAP EDITORS: whererwe write the programs.transcation code(se38)
ABAP REPORTS
ABAP DICTIONARY
ABAP FUNCTION MODULES
SCREEN PROGRAMMING

  ABAp contains all the transcation data of an business...it is an techincal concept in sap.if u r an apllication developer then it is the best module to learn.

[Former Member]

Hi Gokul,

SAP BODS is useful to process data from SAP modules to third party stores ex., sqlserver

1.what is SAP-BW ??(whether its a application or database)

It is a data warehousing module, which can process data with given logic as a application and store data like a database.

2. How the datas we will be stored inside SAP BW...(Files or Database or objects etc.,)

It will store the data in the form of tables, reports, components etc (we can say several other data-warehousing words even).

BODS will be useful to send data from bw - reports, bw - tables, data storage places etc to third party stores.

3.what is ABAP??

ABAP is a programming language useful to process the business logic.

4.what is ABAP dataflow??(why they are using separate  flow for extracting data from SAP BW)

In all sap modules we will have Modeling, Extraction and Reporting. It is project dependent, in your case they may be extracting bw data using code for specific requirements.

5. Why they are using Data Transporter as a target in ABAP dataflow ??

Mainly tables or programming based output towards a location will act as a source for BODS.

Hope answers your need - Kumar

[kamal264]

Hi Gokul,

First 2 Answers I don't Know.

3. ABAP :- ABAP is programming language supported by SAP systems.

4. ABAP DataFLow :- We use to extract data from SAP systems , we can extract from simple dataflow also but ABAP are relatively fast (It will create ABAP program as per your selection criteria mentioned in ABAP dataflow and will give you the desired selected records for further use).

5. Data Transport:- ABAP Dataflow will work as source in BODS. When you connect this with your Query our other table at the time of execution ABAP data flow will generate ABAP program to fetch the records from SAP this Program file will be created on the location which you mention in Transport.)

Regards,

~Kamal