InfoPackage (Changed) 

Technical Data

Function Is	Changed
In Release	Software Component ●      Component: SAP NetWeaver ●      Release: 7.0
Assignment to Application Component	BW-WHM Warehouse Management
Country Setting	Valid for all countries

Use

The following changes have been made in SAP NetWeaver 7.0 regarding the use of InfoPackages:

InfoPackages for Data Flow with Transformations

With the new concept of DataSources, transformations, and data distribution within BI for data transfer processes, changes have been made to InfoPackage maintenance. With the new concept, InfoPackages for DataSources only load the data into the entry layer of BI, the Persistent Staging Area (PSA). Further distribution of the data within BI is done by the data transfer processes. 3.x InfoPackages with the pervious functions are provided for 3.x DataSources.

This has resulted in the following changes:

●      New Extraction tab page

The Extraction tab page contains the settings for adapters and data format defined for the DataSource. For data transfer from files, the External Data tab page is obsolete; the settings are made in DataSource maintenance.

●      Processing tab page

Information on how the data is updated is obsolete because further processing of the data is always controlled by data transfer processes.

●      Updating tab page

On the Updating tab page, you can specify the To the PSA update mode depending on the settings in the DataSource. In the data transfer process, you specify how the data is updated from the PSA to other targets. You can separate delta transfer for various targets. 

Handling of erroneous data records is now specified in the data transfer process for each target.

InfoPackages for Real-Time Data Acquisition and Web Service Push

For real-time acquisition with the Service API, you create special InfoPackages in which you specify how the requests are to be handled by the daemon (for example, after which time interval a request for real-time data acquisition should be closed and a new one opened). To push data using Web services, you require special InfoPackages to specify certain parameters for real-time data acquisition, such as the size of requests and their time limits.

Variable Change of Data Selection

Until now, it was possible to make various time selections on the Data Selection tab page in InfoPackage maintenance by using the variable types 0-5. For example, for date fields of type DATS, it was possible to select variable type 0 (yesterday) to transfer the data from the previous day during the load process. As of SAP NetWeaver 7.0, variable types 0-5 are no longer available for selection. We recommend that you use a suitable routine (type 6) or (OLAP) variable (type 7).

Additional Functions in InfoPackage Maintenance

You can make various settings in InfoPackage maintenance.

●      You can restrict the number of selection values for single and interval selection to a maximum of 1 000.

●      You can define the maximum number of process for data transfer to the PSA. For 3.x InfoPackages, you can define the maximum number of processes for posting data to the InfoProvider.

●      You can define that a metadata comparison of the DataSource and a replication of the DataSource (if required) take place when the request is created.