Simulate Loading of Master Data

This function allows you to simulate the loading of a master data package in the data flow with 3.x objects before loading the data into BW. This means you can be aware of errors in the data loading early on and remove problems in advance.

You call the function by selecting the data request that you want to examine in the Monitor for Extraction Processes and Data Transfer Processes and selecting Simulate Update on the Detail tab page in the context menu of a data package. See: Update Simulation in the Extraction Monitor

In the case of data without errors, the loading simulation provides you with a detailed description of the processes that are run during loading. The left-hand frame structures the various master data types that can be loaded in a tree. Either:

• Time-dependent texts and/or time-constant texts, or

• Time-dependent master data attributes and/or time-constant texts

On the level below the master data types, you will see the different database operations that are carried out during loading. (For example, modifying, inserting, deleting)

By clicking a master data type or a database operation, or by using drag-and-drop on these objects in the right-hand frame, you can obtain a detailed view of the respective uploaded data.

In the case of incorrect data, only the master data types and not the database operations, are displayed in the left-hand frame.

The corresponding error log appears in the lower frame.