InfoPackage (Changed) 

Technical Data

Function is	Changed
For Release	Software component ·        Component:  NetWeaver ·        Release 2004s
Assignment to Application Component	BW-WHM Warehouse Management
Country Setting	Valid for all countries

Use

With the new concept of DataSources, transformations and data distributionfor data transfer processes within BI , changes have been made to InfoPackage maintenance.

InfoPackages only load the data into the input layer of BI, the Persistent Staging Area (PSA). Further distribution of the data within BI is done by the data transfer processes.

The following changes have occurred due to this:

·        New tab page: Extraction

The Extraction tab page includes the settings for adaptor and data format that were made for the DataSource. If data transfer from files occurred, the External Data tab page is obsolete; the settings are made in DataSource maintenance.

·        Tab page: Processing

Information on how the data is updated is obsolete because further processing of the data is always controlled by data transfer processes.

·        Tab page: Updating

On the Updating tab page, you can set the update mode to the PSA depending on the settings in the DataSource. In the data transfer process, you now determine how the update from the PSA to other targets is performed. Here you have the option to separate delta transfer for various targets. 

Handling of erroneous data records is now specifically determined in the data transfer process.

For real-time acquisition with the Service API, you create special InfoPackages in which you determine how the requests are 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). For real-time data acquisition with Web services (push), you also create special InfoPackages to set certain parameters for real-time data acquisition such as sizes and time limits for requests.