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How to: SAP Analytics Cloud Performance Issues and Best Practices
02 Jun 0 CommentsCustomer/Developer Point of View “Once upon a time there was an SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) analytics model (based on an external-SAP Hana-view) published in SAP Analytics Cloud. And it was doing great. It grew and grew and grew, till the MDS (1) statement was so big it crashed every time someone wanted to execute the statement. The master story (and…
How to: Load a CSV file into SAP BW/4HANA using the Planning function type 0RSPL_FILE_UPLOAD_AO
29 Mai 0 CommentsIntroduction The requirement to upload a CSV file into a SAP BW system is something a lot of people have come a across every once and a while. There the well-known solution by Marc Bernard is provided. In SAP Note 2053696 it is now stated that this How-to Paper is obsolete and should not be used anymore. Therefore, the…
How to: Trace widgets in SAP Analytics Cloud stories connected via HANA Live Data Connection
25 Feb 0 CommentsSAP Analytics Cloud is a powerful tool to visualize data. Even though it is a cloud framework, it could be very helpful in some cases to get a look behind the scenes. Objective In that blog post we try to analyse a story build in SAP Analytics Cloud with HANA Life Data Connection to a SAP…
How to: Activate Master Data Hierarchies for SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
20 Feb 0 CommentsIntroduction SAP Analytics Cloud enables to create dynamic visual stories based on key business areas with trusted data that is managed by IT. (Source: https://www.sapanalytics.cloud/product/#businessintelligence ) There are many introductions and learning materials for creating powerful reports and dashboards for SAC. All the information shows how to visually deal with data derived from various sources. Since the…
How to: Create Dataflow within BW/4HANA
07 Dez 0 CommentsWhat is a DataFlow Object? The Dataflow object is a way to model your dataflow within SAP BW/4HANA within the Eclipse world. It is a graphical feature which also enables you to create a dataflow from start to finish. All created objects eg Datasource, ADSOs, InfoObjects etc are available for re-use within other dataflows. The…
How to: SQL statements for HANA DB maintenance
06 Dez 0 CommentsHello, quite often it’s necessary to fix issues related to HANA model execution – e.g. defective views, troubles with authorizations etc. There are some SQL statements that are quite handy for that purpose and I like to share those: –Check invalid custom DB views select * from “SYS”.”VIEWS” where schema_name not like ‘SAP%’ and…
How to create transitive navigation attributes in BW Modeling Tools
05 Dez 0 CommentsIntroduction In traditional BW, modeling of transitive attributes (attribute of attribute) has been quite time consuming and also led to duplication of data, see explanation here. Transitive attributes – as an out-of-the-box feature – have been introduced in the BW Modeling Tools InfoObject editor with BW 7.5 SP4. Here you can simply enable the required…
Which road to take to BW/4HANA?
06 Nov 0 CommentsIntroduction BW/4HANA is available now for more than 2 years and I got the feeling that more and more BW users are starting to think how to get there. If you do not start from scratch with BW then the process to BW/4HANA from any previous BW release is a completely new experience since it…
How to change/create Infoobjects with RSD1 as of BW 750 SP11 on HANA and BW/4HANA as of SP8
17 Okt 0 CommentsIntroduction Before SAP BW 750 SP 11 it was possible to edit/maintain InfoObjects in RSD1 with the help of value nohdb in ok-code (see https://www.zpartner.eu/how-to-changecreate-infoobjects-with-rsd1-as-of-bw-7-5-sp4-on-hana/) . This was switched off with SAP BW 750 SP11. In some cases, it could be helpful to change InfoObjects (for instance if you want to edit Master Data Read…
ZPARTNER S/4HANA Demo21 mit SAP Analytics Cloud Integration
10 Aug 0 CommentsHannes Kröner und Stefan Witteck haben zusammen erfolgreich die S/4HANA mit SAP Analytics Cloud Integration aufgesetzt. Gratulation und vielen Dank für den Einsatz!
HDB modeling in WebIDE – and why we are staying in HANA Studio for the time being
18 Jun 0 CommentsWe are working with lots of mixed-scenarios, meaning that our data is stored in BW and exposed as Calculation Views for further HANA native processing. When we became aware that HANA modeling is moving away from HANA Studio and into Web IDE for SAP HANA with quite some new features, we were excited at first.…
Usage of SAP HANA Exit Variables for a standard reporting scenario
04 Okt 0 CommentsThe scope of the document is to show how SAP HANA Exit variables are working for column selection for standard YTD reporting and delta calculation using native SQL. As a result the native SQL statements on generated calculation views work nearly similar as a SAP BW Query. By using HANA Exit variables the Query can be…
SAP BW Hierarchien mit D3.js und BSP im ZPARTNER Style
01 Sep 0 CommentsHolger hat sich mal überlegt die Darstellung von SAP BW Hierarchien im graphischen Sinne ein wenig zu optimieren.Dabei ist ein kleines Framework zur Darstellung von SAP BW Hierarchien mit D3.js und BSP geworden. Per URL Parameter wird die Hierarchie übergeben. Danach kann der User graphisch durch die Hierarchie navigieren – komfortable, schnell und graphisch ansprechend.…
Master Data Management with BPC Embedded
28 Jul 0 CommentsRequirement A typical requirement within a BW Project might be to offer Master Data Maintenance to End Users. E.g. to maintain specific global BW hierarchies. Overview of Possible Approaches In the following figure a compoarison between different approaches can be found. Within the next chapter we will go into the details of the BPC Embedded…
HANA Views & SQL – Technical Performance Optimization
07 Jul 0 CommentsBW on HANA can easily enable SQL data access for third party tools, using the “External SAP HANA View” flag to automatically generate Calculation Views out of BW objects. However, Consuming multidimensional BW scenarios through relational SQL paradigm can lead to quite some issues with performance. This blog is about a few basic technical tips,…
How to change/create InfoObjects with RSD1 as of BW 7.5 SP4 on HANA?
03 Apr 0 CommentsIntroduction InfoObject maintenance in the BW Modelling Tools (BW-MT) was made mandatory starting with SAP BW 7.5 SP4 on HANA. Since then it is not possible to maintain/create InfoObjects from the SAP GUI using the transaction RSD1. Displaying though still works. This change surprised the one or the other as this is the first existing…
ZPARTNER (Stefan Witteck) hat seine S/4HANA Demo21 erfolgreich aufgesetzt.
03 Feb 0 Comments#zpartner hat nun mit der #S/4HANA Demo21 eine super Sandbox zum Testen und Implementieren von neuen Ideen. SAP-ZPARTNER-DEMO21-CONFIRM
RSEC*-Tables and IO AUTH_HASH
01 Sep 0 CommentsOld or Pre BW 7.4 Database-Tables for Hierarchy Entries within Authorizations RSECHIE Status of Authorization Hierarchies RSECHIE_CL Authorization Hierarchies Changes Change Log Database-Table after Upgrade to BW 7.4: All newly created Hierarchy Authorizations will be saved within this new table. RSECHIE_STRING Status of Authorization Hierarchies Old or Pre BW 7.4 Database-Tables for Value Entries within…
Alternative Usage of RSDG_TRFN_ACTIVATE
14 Jul 0 CommentsStefan Witteck hat einen neunen Blog gepostet, welches das BW-Leben erheblich erleichtern kann http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-74131
Enhance technical content with BEx 7.x Bookmark calls
29 Jun 0 CommentsThe scope of the document is to show a possible way to track BEx 7.x Bookmark execution and integrate the results into the technical content. Integration is done with the help of quite new SAP BW objects, like Open ODS View or Composite Provider. Tracking bookmark execution could be very helpful in case of housekeeping…
BW system restore and one way to save the delta from source systems
04 Apr 0 CommentsThis blog can help you to save the delta in case of a system restore. Read the full blog on SAP SCN: http://scn.sap.com/community/data-warehousing/bw/blog/2014/01/20/bw-system-recovery-and-one-way-to-save-the-delta-from-source-systems What happened? The productive BW system of one of our clients had a serious problem. Some tables (SID tables of several central InfoObjects) were deleted directly from the database and could not…
Comparison of SAP BEx Query Designer and eclipse BW Modeling Query
12 Feb 0 CommentsComparison of SAP BEx Query Designer and eclipse BW Modeling Query This blog tells you about the differences between SAP BEx Query Designer and the eclipse based BW Query on BW 7.4 and should help you to understand how query design works with the eclipse based BW-Query if you have worked long time with the…
SAP HANA – SQL Execution Performance
30 Dez 0 CommentsBW can effortlessly expose data for external consumption e.g. by a third party tool, using the checkbox “External SAP HANA View”. Those automatically generated Calculation Views which are based on Composite Providers or even BW Queries are usually quite complex, so SQL access will probably perform poorly. This blog is about two parameters which can…
SAP HANA – Advanced DSO Features
16 Jul 0 CommentsThis blog post describes the features of ADSO’s and how to use them. View details on http://scn.sap.com/community/bw-hana/blog/2015/07/10/sap-hana–advanced-dso-features SUMMARY Our experience with Advanced DSO’s is good; we did not encounter severe problems. Everything worked after we gain the knowledge how to use it. thx 2 mario
SAP HANA Security – Create Roles and Privileges from BW System in SAP HANA
23 Jun 0 CommentsThis blog post explains how to create roles with privileges for SAP HANA Studio from BW for DBMS profiles in order to give the users the possibilities to see views on generated SAP HANA BW content (like calculated views generated out of new composite provider and SAP BW queries 7.4). View details on http://scn.sap.com/community/bw-hana/blog/2015/06/19/sap-hana-security-create-roles-and-privileges-from-bw-system-in-sap-hana thx…
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