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How to access a Network File Storage (NFS) using SAP Data Services File location objects

2023-02-01T10:52:51+01:00

Hi Team,

In Data services designer File Location Object configuration we can only see the following protocols available for configuring File Location.

FTP
SFTP
SCP
LOCAL
Google Cloud storage
Azure Cloud Storage
Azure Data Lake storage
Amazon S3 Cloud storage
Hadoop

There are no protocols available specific to NFS.

Kindly let us know if there is any way we can configure file paths using NFS.

Thanks.

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Upgrading existing Information Steward system from 4.2 to 4.3

2023-02-20T19:21:27+01:00

Hi,

We are going to upgrade the existing IS system from 4.2 to 4.3, please let us know the challenges that we might face during this and how to overcome from those? This will be helpful for us during upgrade.

Regards,

CSU

Information Steward Data Exports

2023-03-06T15:23:02+01:00

When our users export rule results to Excel, it appears that a copy is kept on the server.

These build up and fill our server.

Please can someone advise how these are supposed to be managed/purged ?

Thanks.

Information Steward : E-mail Notification setup for rules and failed data in BOIS

2023-03-15T17:37:09+01:00

Hi Team,

Could you please let us know how we can setup E-mail notification to send an E-mail to users with the rules and failed data in Information Steward.

Could you please help us with this issue.
Thanks,

Informatica BDM Access a Local Image

2023-03-21T10:17:26+01:00

In Informatica BDM I have a java transformation that sends emails containing HTML formatting. At one point in my code I add an image via hyperlink and it works great, the problem is that the server I will be hosting this on has no direct internet access so I need to load this image locally. The trouble is that Informatica seems to have trouble importing images, even if I specify the path where the image is located. Any help in troubleshooting this is greatly appreciated.

Cannot import job schedule info

2023-04-11T18:15:17+02:00

I want to import job from another Data Services .But miss schedule info. What can i do.

The both DS is 4.2 SP 13 PL7.

Data Governance Rules, Workflow, Standards - Master Data Objects

2023-04-11T22:38:49+02:00

Hi SAP

We are looking for Data Governance Rules, Workflow, Standards for various Master Data Objects in SAP S4 like

Customer

Vendor

Material

General Ledger

Profit Center

Cost Center

Pricing

Source List

Thanks

Ash Handa

Talend stewardship vs BW ETL or similar

2023-06-02T12:39:18+02:00

Hello Experts,

we are currently using Talend as ETL tool which gets the data from different non SAP sources and perfrom ETL to BW. The biggest challange to get rid of Talend is, its Stewardship functionality. Do we have any solution regarding stewardship in SAP which can replace the Talend ?

How to edit server name in Information Steward connections using command utility in windows

2023-07-10T20:35:58+02:00

Dear SAP,

As part of our internal project to move off Win2012 servers and onto Win2019 servers for our SAP ERP system we had to make a change to the Information Steward connection setup which was pointing to our old Win2012 ERP application servers. However, despite choosing the option "Load Balancing" = "Yes" the connection fails because the application server entry now had a SAP ERP application server that doesn't exist.

Is there a way of updating this connection as creating a new connection and repointing is not really an option?

We have two BODS systems, one that is live and runs on Win2012 with BODS version 4.2 and one that will be migrated to that runs on Win2019 with BODS version 4.3. Both seem to have the same issue as in both BODS 4.2 & BODS 4.3 won't allow me to change the "Server Name" and fail despite the "load balance" elements being correct.

Many Thanks

Issues with Importing the rules to Information Steward project

2023-07-24T11:27:21+02:00

Hi All,

When importing the approved rules from one project to another, Rules are in Editing / submitted status. but not approved.

Below are the steps performed,

Before exporting the rules, all the rules are approved and Public.

Export the project to make Zip files from project A

import the content to Project B.

Check the overwrite rules box and Approve the Rules(user performing the import and export has Data insight admin access) by Data insight Admin

After importing , the rules in new project are either in Editing / submitted state. in other project, they are in Locked.

Please could anyone help me the reason for this this behavior.

Thanks,

Samatha

Import and export of rules in SAP DI

2023-07-25T13:31:45+02:00

Hi All,

We have created the data quality rule and dash boards in SAP DI Dev. we need to move the rules to QA for testing. I want to to how to export and import the rules in QA. Please let me know the process how to do export and import the rules.

Thanks & Regards,

Rama Gopala Reddy

Custom Function to lookup anyone value in MARA - SAP BODS

2023-09-07T18:20:24+02:00

Dear friends,

I have excel sheet values as below

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I need to find anyone of this value exist in MARA table and the field name is EXTWG

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if exist i need to say FOUND or NOT FOUND

If anyone knows how to write custom function for this task in BODS please help me.

Thanks,

Malini

Will there be a connector that can work independently?

2023-09-27T17:18:10+02:00

The Vertica DB native connector works via ODBC. Will there be a connector that can work independently?

How can I export the SQL statement that an Information Steward rule is running?

2023-10-10T11:33:27+02:00

My ultimate goal is to extract the sql statements for all of my Information Steward rules. I can extract expressions and filters, but I want the actual sql statement. Does anyone know how I can do that?

Thanks!
Amy

Is it okay to upgrade Information steward from 4.2 to 4.3 wihtout upgrading DataServices 4.2?

2023-10-17T09:59:36+02:00

Dear Experts,

Need your suggestion on Information steward 4.3 upgrade on below scenario.

We have Data Services 4.2 SP14 and Information steward 4.2 SP14 in our landscape, both are in two different VM machines and also connected with backend Netwevarer systems (version NW 7.0, 7.3 & 7.4).

Here we have a challenge is, support of 4.2 is going to be end on December 2023 so we are planning to upgrade our DS & IS systems to 4.3 SP02.

But as per DS 4.3 PAM the backend systems NetWeaver with version lower than 7.5 is not compatible/supported but as per Information Steward 4.3 PAM backend systems with lower versions are supprted/compatible (7.0, 7.3 & 7.4).

Could you please suggest on below points.

- Are okay to upgrade Information Steward 4.3 alone as IS 4.3 is supported with backend lower NW versions (7.0, 7.3 & 7.4) and also in different VM machine?

- Could you please suggest us is it okay to upgrade IS 4.3 alone without upgrading DS ?

- Will there be any impact on DS if we don't upgrade and keept it with existing/older version DS 4.2?

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Murali.

SAP Info Steward - Conformity Rule to identify special character

2023-10-17T16:08:34+02:00

Hi,

I am new to SAP Info Steward and I am trying to create more complex rules. The advance editor is not something that I am used to, and I am having trouble to create simple rules that I could have created in seconds somewhere else. It would would be great if anyone have any suggestions on where I could learn more.

At the meantime if anyone could suggest how I can create a rule to identify a string with special characters OR a period at the end of the string?

Many thanks in advance

SAP Info Steward filtering

2023-10-24T15:37:33+02:00

Hi,

I am trying to filter out -

1. Deactivated vendors

2. Account group =6

and include train station 1,7, and 8

for the data set to be tested. However, I am getting an error message "mismatched expression <begin>, expecting <end of expression>. (COR-10608)".

Please find below for the filter, thanks.

BEGIN

$VE_SEARCH_TERMS_1 != 'DEACTIVATED' AND $VE_ACCOUNT_GROUP_ID != '0006' AND $VE_VENDOR_TRAIN_STATION = '0001' OR

$VE_SEARCH_TERMS_1 != 'DEACTIVATED' AND $VE_ACCOUNT_GROUP_ID != '0006' AND $VE_VENDOR_TRAIN_STATION = '0007' OR

$VE_SEARCH_TERMS_1 != 'DEACTIVATED' AND $VE_ACCOUNT_GROUP_ID != '0006' AND $VE_VENDOR_TRAIN_STATION = '0008' OR

END

How to convert Chinese, Taiwan characters to English using SAP Data Services

2023-12-29T19:16:45+01:00

We are retrieving data from the SAP table LFA1 in S4 HANA and transferring it to an SQL database. The data in the LFA1 table is in Chinese, specifically in the Taiwan language.

How can we convert this data to English using BODS? Kindly provide assistance in ensuring the successful loading of Chinese, Taiwan data into English

SAP Data Services 4.3 SP2 P1 and SAP Information steward 4.3 SP2 P1 compatibility with postgreSQL 13

2024-01-12T10:41:07+01:00

Needed confirmation on compatibility of IS/DS 4.3 SP2 Patch 1 with postgreSQL 13 version

Information Stewars Pros

2024-01-14T10:05:27+01:00

I have a table with the following entries:

VendorNumber VendorCountry VendorName AccountNumber
Ven1 VC1 VN1 ACCT1
Ven1 VC2 VN2

I have a requirement: if Vendor is in multiple countries, it is considered valid for all entries if it has a bank account number in at least 1 country for all entries, otherwise, blank or null entries for all countries for the same vendor are invalid.

for the scenario above Ven1 should be valid for both entries.

A basic if statement IF (AccountNumber is not NLL or AccountNumber !='') considers the first entry as valid, while the 2nd one is no

Adding (using the lookup)

If ($accountNumber is Null or $accountNumber =' ')
IF (VendorNumber = lookup ('Connection', 'table',
'AccountNumber', 'Is Not Null',
'AccountNumber', '!= \'\' ',
'VendorNumber', $VendorNumber) ) return True.

How would the 'IS NOT NULL' be treated: an actual string or a value? same for the !=\'\'.

If this does not work, any suggestions? I tried nested IFs, but was not able to get the desired output in the rule test.