DataSource Enhancement in SAP BI

23/02/2010




Datasource Enhancement





NGM-INDIA/SAP BI

Vineeth Subramanian. B
vineeth.sb@tcs.com


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In many of the business scenarios standard datasource provided by SAP wont be enough
to meet the business requirement. So there arise many situations in which datasource
need to be enhanced so as to meet the customer requirements. This document covers step
by step process for making datasource enhancement.

Datasource 0PM_MEASUREMENT is used as an example in this document. The datasource
0PM_MEASUREMENT is enhanced so as to include an additional field ZZNOOFDAYS which
calculate the number of days in a month. There is an existing field in the datasource which
is a DATE field, from which month value will be separated and then function module
NUMBER_OF_DAYS_PER_MONTH_GET will be used to calculate days in the month.

First go to transaction RSA6 and select the datasource 0PM_MEASUREMENT and click on
Enhance Extraction Structure button as shown in Figure 1.



Click here after selecting the datasource
Figure 1



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Select a name for the enhanced datasource as shown in Figure 2.


Figure 2

After giving a name for the new structure click OK which will display a screen as shown in
Figure 3.


Figure 3

Add the new field to the existing datasource by specifying a component and component
type as shown in Figure 4.


Figure 4

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If necessary a new component type can be created as shown in Figure 5 or use a pre
existing component type.


Figure 5

Now go to transaction RSA6 and double click on the datasource to see the list of fields. We
can see that the new field has been added. After going back to transaction RSA6 select the
datasource and click on the edit button .Then go to the list of fields and then for the new
field, uncheck the HIDE Check Box (shown in Figure 6) and save.

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Figure 6

Now again go to RSA6 and double click on the datasource, to see the list of fields including
the field ZZNOOFDAYS (shown in Figure 7).


Figure 7
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Now go back to transaction RSA6 and click Function Enhancement as shown in Figure 8.



Figure 8

Select the custom project for SAP BI enhancement as shown in Figure 9.


Figure 9
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For the project select the sub object as Enhancement Assignment (shown in Figure 10) and
click on display button.


Figure 10

Then click on components tab as shown in Figure 11.


Figure 11


Click the function exit EXIT_SAPLRSAP_001 as shown in Figure 12. Since the datasource
0PM_MEASUREMENT is a transactional datasource, we select the first exit which is for
transactional datasources.



Figure 12
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Then double click on the include as shown in Figure 13.


Figure 13

Then click on edit button to edit the code as shown in Figure 14.


Figure 14

Within that for the datasource, initially declare the work areas.

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Figure 15


Then make a case for the datasource as below and write down the logic


Figure 16

In this example the number of days in a month is derived by passing the month and year.

Now check in transaction RSA3, whether the datasource is working fine or not.
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New field ZZNOOFDAYS is populated with values
Figure 17

Once the datasource is modified, replicate this datasource in BI. Also change the structure
of ODS and Infocube. Then transfer and update rules by adding new info object.