Error While Connecting to WCF Web Services using BODS 3.2
Hi, I am trying to access WCF Web Services using BODS 3.2. I tried to create a datastore and access the functions proviced by the WebServices, it fetched the function list but failed to import any...
View ArticleConvertion functions in BODS with Examples_Part1
Conversion functions in BODS_Part1There is different conversion function which used to convert one form of data into another format. The BODS support most of basic conversion functions.Here, I will...
View ArticleConvertion functions in BODS with Examples_2
Conversion functions in BODS_Part2 In this section I will explain mainly three conversion function in BO data service. They are mainly CAST, To_Date and...
View ArticleConvertion functions in BODS with Examples_Part3
Conversion functions in BODS_Part3In this section I will explain remaining conversion functions available in BO data services. These functions are mainly. To_decimal To_decimal_ext...
View ArticleSAP Data Services 4.1 - SQL Server Native Client issue
I ran into this problem today after creating a dataflow which wrote data to a temporary table. 45804460DBS-07040114/06/2013 17:19|Data flow DF_XXXX|Loader Query_XXXX45804460DBS-07040114/06/2013...
View ArticleMatch strings with Match_Pattern
Match pattern is a function in validation transform. It is used to match the input strings. This function can be used to compare alphabets (a-z, A-Z), numbers (0-9) and special characters....
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Consuming REST web service (with Parameters) in BODS using HTTP Adapter
Let us try to understand, how to access a REST based web service (with parameters) in batch job from BODS. This feature is supported from BODS 4.0 SP3 patch3. In this example, we will try to call an...
View ArticleCreating a data flow for a real-time service in Designer to be exposed as a...
Hi everyone! I am new to SAP Data Services and have been assigned to create a project in Data Services that can be accessed with a Web service. The function of this project is to cleanse the input...
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SCD Type Implementation in BODS
Here I am trying to explain the methods to implement SCD types in BO Data Service. The different types of slowly changing dimension types are given below.1. Type 02. Type 13. Type 24....
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SAP Business Objects Data Quality Management ( DQM ) Enhancements for more...
Relevant SystemsThese enhancements were successfully implemented in the following systems: Customer Relationship Management ( CRM ) 7.02 SP 4SAP Business Objects Data Quality Management, version for...
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How to import XML schema
Below are the Steps to import the XSD file in BODS Open the local object library and go to the Formats tab. Right-click XML Schema and click New. The Import XML schema format dialog box opens.In the...
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BODS - SCD2 Terradata lock issue Resolved
Problem: While developing the SCD2 data flow using the Teradata tables a lock happened between the updates and the reads of the Teradata target table and the job was hanging for long time. SCD2The...
View ArticleSelecting only alphanumeric data
Use the below regular expression function to select onlt the alphanumeric data from the source match_regex(SQL_Latest_Employees.HRRA01_LAST_N , '[0-9A-Za-z]*',NULL ) = 1
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Step by Step for establishing RFC Connection between SAP-BW & Data Service
There are many descriptive documents, which talks about the RFC Connections between Data Services and BW, but I created this blog thinking that it will be much more helpful if the same is provided with...
View ArticleAdding a second to date
Hi All, I found this interesting in share with you all. There was a requirement where because of timestamp of a date column value, BODS job was getting fail and we had to go update the date value to...
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SAP BusinessObjects Data Quality Management (DQM): Enhancements for more...
Relevant SystemsThese enhancements were successfully implemented in the following systems:Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 7.02 SP4SAP BusinessObjects Data Quality Management (DQM), version for...
View ArticlePython code to keep only alphanumeric character
User_defined transform using Python script to keep only alpha numeric characterInput to the User_defined transform will be a Description field which will contain invalid character set as below....
View ArticleI installed DQM for SAP. You can too!
I just helped a customer install Data Quality Management for SAP from scratch. 2 days start-to-finish, including customizations. We probably could have saved some time if we had all the files...
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Loading special characters from a flat file to target table
Scenario: To load special characters such as non-English characters from a flat file(.txt) to target table whose code page is set to UTF-8 . In order to load special characters from a flat file...
View ArticleComplete information on BODS.
What is “SAP Business Objects Data Services”?This is a software tool designed by Business Object ( a company that got acquired by SAP in 2007) Some of the basic purpose of this tool is to perform...
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