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Summary
This article tells about the Open Hub Destination use and how to use it in case of data down load from InfoCube to Flat File.
Author: Surendra Kumar Reddy Koduru
Company: ITC Infotech India Ltd. (Bangalore/INDIA)
Created on: 24 February 2010
Author Bio
Surendra Kumar Reddy Koduru is a SAP BI Lead Consultant currently working with ITC Infotech India Ltd (Bangalore/INDIA). He has got rich experience and worked on various BW/BI implementation/Support projects.
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Open Hub Destination: Part 1
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The open hub destination is the object that allows you to distribute data from a BI system to non-SAP data marts, analytical applications, and other applications. It ensures controlled distribution across multiple systems.
The open hub destination defines the target to which the data is transferred.
See the following figure outlines how the open hub destination is integrated into the data flow:
Use of Open Hub
Database tables (in the database for the BI system) and flat files can act as open hub destinations. You can extract the data from a database to non-SAP systems using APIs and a third-party tool.
Structure
The open hub destination contains all the information about a data target: the type of destination, the name of the flat file or database table and its properties, and the field list and its properties.
BI objects such as InfoCubes, DataStore Objects, InfoObjects (attributes or texts), and InfoSets can function as open hub data sources. Note that DataSources may not be used as the source.
Integration
You can use the data transfer process to update data to the open hub destination. This involves transforming the data. Not all rule types are available in the transformation for an open hub destination: Reading master data, time conversion, currency translation, and unit conversion are not available.
Open Hub Destination: Part 1
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3. Enter a technical name and a description. We recommend that you use the object from which you want to update data to the open hub destination as the template.
4. On the Destination tab page, select the required destination. Here I’m selecting the File as Destination.
Press F4 and then select the destination path.
Open Hub Destination: Part 1
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Actually Step 3 it self the Scenario is over, but here I’m explaining with different Separator “,”. The data in actual data file is very clear if you select “,”.
For this we need to change the Separator in Open Hub Destination.
The above screen tells about “;”, the data in the above flat file is used Separator “;”.
But now we are giving “,” as separator, see the below screen.
Open Hub Destination: Part 1
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Once you change the separator, DTP will become Inactive, so you need to activate Transformations between InfoCube and Open Hub Destination and DTP in between InfoCube and Open Hub Destination.
Active the DTP and then execute it, you can see the below screen.
Open Hub Destination: Part 1
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In DTP we selected the Extraction mode is Delta, so no more data is extracted into Flat File, but here I given the sample File, which give the details of data, i.e. how the data will extracts into flat file if we change the separator.
Here in the above Flat File the data is very clear i.e. in different column. Based on our requirements we can change the Separator.
Open Hub Destination: Part 1
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