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This Article gives you a brief idea on how to create RFC Connection between Data stage and SAP BI. For more information, visit the Business Intelligence homepage.
Author: Jagadeesh Ambati
Company: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
Created on: 11 March 2010
Author Bio
Jagadeesh Ambati is an SAP BI/BO consultant currently working with Tata Consultancy Services (Bangalore/INDIA). He has got rich experience in SAP BI and worked on various BI/BO implementation/Support projects.
Business Scenario: ............................................................................................................................................. 3
1. System Prerequisites ............................................................................................................................. 3 1.1. DataStage requirements ........................................................................................................................................ 3
1.2. SAP BI requirements ............................................................................................................................................ 3
2.2. User Creation ........................................................................................................................................................ 3
Related Content ................................................................................................................................................ 19
Disclaimer and Liability Notice .......................................................................................................................... 20
Establishing RFC Connection between Data Stage – SAP BW
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This Article gives you a Brief idea on How to create RFC Connection between Data stage and SAP BI.
Business Scenario:
In your Scenario, Your Company requires Data from SAP BI to Data stage. You were asked to setup the connection between Data stage and SAP BI.
Steps:
1. System Prerequisites
1.1. DataStage requirements
SAP BW pack which can connect DataStage v.8 to SAP BW v.7 must be available
The DataStage client component – DataStage Administrator for SAP must be installed.
DataStage Admin user with non – expirable password is required.
DataStage ETL project already created
1.2. SAP BI requirements
The Exact Source system name as maintained in ETL or SOURCE. (Care should be taken to define this correctly including Capitals, spaces and special characters. The name should be exactly as defined at the source level.)
The kind of connection defined at the source (Type and release)
2. Access Rights, Firewall, User Creation
All the below are MANDATORY Pre-requisites.
2.1. Firewall Settings
IN general the firewall must be switched off before installing the DataStage Pack
2.2. User Creation
User to be created with Admin rights for DataStage.
Username – dsadm(Used this username as an Example).
Define the details as given below and the BW load RFC server program ID must be informed to BW consultant to enable him to define DataStage connections. Program ID must not have any spaces
between them.
Step7:
Define all the parameters and use a DataStage admin username and non expirable password to create the connection.
Click on O.K. If the window closes successfully without error then it implies that DataStage connection is established successfully.
Establishing RFC Connection between Data Stage – SAP BW
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To end the creation of the Source system, Right click on the new source system and click “CHECK” and “ACTIVATE” in sequence and your source system is ready to load data.
Step14:
Please note that all your info providers and master data info objects and transaction data info objects need to mapped individually to this new source system
Testing
After successful creation of connectivity, test it by loading data from DataStage v8.0.1 to SAP BW.
Establishing RFC Connection between Data Stage – SAP BW
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