What are the steps to create a generic data source?

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What are the steps to create a generic data source?..

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Procedure
Creating a Generic DataSource
...

1. Select the DataSource type and give it a
technical name.

2. Choose Create.

The creating a generic DataSource screen appears.

3. Choose an application component to which the
DataSource is to be assigned.

4. Enter the descriptive texts. You can choose
any text.

5. Choose from which datasets the generic
DataSource is to be filled.

a. Choose Extraction from
View, if you want to extract data from a transparent table
or a database view. Enter the name of the table or the
database view.

After generation, you get a DataSource whose extract
structure is congruent with the database view or the
transparent table view.

For more information about creating and maintaining
database views and tables, see the ABAP Dictionary
Documentation.

b. Choose Extraction from
Query, if you want to use a SAP query InfoSet as the data
source. Select the required InfoSet from the InfoSet
catalog.

Notes on Extraction Using SAP Query

After generation, you now have a DataSource whose extract
structure matches the InfoSet.

For more information about maintaining the InfoSet, see the
System Administration documentation.

c. Choose Extraction using
FM, if you want to extract data using a function module.
Enter the function module and extract structure.

The data must be transferred by the function module in an
interface table E_T_DATA.

Interface Description and Extraction Process Flow

For information about the function library, see the ABAP
Workbench: Tools documentation.

d. With texts, you also
have the option of extraction from domain fixed values.

6. Maintain the settings for delta transfer
where appropriate.

7. Choose Save.

When extracting, look at SAP Query: Assigning to a User
Group.

Note when extracting from a transparent table or view:

If the extract structure contains a key figure field, that
references to a unit of measure or currency unit field,
this unit field must appear in the same extract structure
as the key figure field.

A screen appears in which you can edit the fields of the
extract structure.

8. Editing the DataSource:

¡ Selection

When scheduling a data request in the BW Scheduler, you
can enter the selection criteria for the data transfer. For
example, you may want to determine that data requests are
only to apply to data from the previous month.

If you set the Selection indicator for a field within the
extract structure, the data for this field is transferred
in correspondence with the selection criteria in the
scheduler.

¡ Hide field

You should set this indicator to exclude an extract
structure field from the data transfer. As a result of your
action, the field is no longer made available in BW when
setting the transfer rules and generating the transfer
structure.

¡ Inversion

Reverse postings are possible for customer-defined key
figures. For this reason, inversion is only possible for
certain transaction data DataSources. These include
DataSources that have a field that is indicated as an
inversion field, for example, the field update mode in the
DataSource 0FI_AP_3. If this field has a value, then the
data records are interpreted as reverse records in BW.

Set the Inversion indicator if you want to carry out a
reverse posting for a customer-defined field (key figure).
The value of the key figure is then transferred in inverted
form (multiplied by –1) into BW.

¡ Field only known in exit

You can enhance data by extending the extract structure for
a DataSource using fields in append structures.

The indicator Field only known in Exit is set for fields of
an append structure. In other words, by default these
fields are not passed onto the extractor from the field
list and selection table.

Deselect the indicator Field Only Known in Exit to enable
the Service API to pass on the append structure field to
the extractor together with the fields of the delivered
extract structures in the field list as well as in the
selection table.

9. Choose DataSource ® Generate.

The DataSource is now saved in the source system.

Maintaining Generic DataSources
· Change the DataSource

To change a generic DataSource, in the initial screen of
DataSource maintenance, enter the name of the DataSource
and choose Change.

You can change the assignment of a DataSource to an
application component as well as the texts of a DataSource.
Double-clicking on the name of the table, view, InfoSet or
extract structure takes you to the appropriate maintenance
screen. Here you can make changes required to add new
fields. You can fully swap transparent tables and database
views, but not InfoSets. If you return to the DataSource
maintenance and choose Create, the screen for editing a
DataSource appears. To save the DataSource in the SAP
source system, choose DataSource ® Generate.

If you want to test extraction in the source system
independently of a BW system, choose DataSource ® Test
Extraction.

· Delta DataSource

In the Change Generic DataSource screen, you can delete any
DataSources that are no longer relevant. If you are
extracting data from an InfoSet, delete the associated
query. If you want to delete a DataSource, this must not be
connected to a BW system.