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Procedure documentation Maintaining InfoPackages Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Use

With the help of an InfoPackage, you determine the selection conditions in BW for the data request from a source system. In this section, you can select the contents of the InfoPackages so that it can be scheduled.

Note

If you do not enter any specific selections, then all of the available data for the DataSource will be requested from the source system. You only have to make a selection when dealing with hierarchies.

If you have previously selected a delta process then you only get the affected delta for your selection. There is a maximum of one active delta selection for a combination of InfoSource, DataSource and source system.

If you change already scheduled InfoPackages, your new selection is used in later background jobs, for example, periodic runs. You have to create a new InfoPackage if you want to continue to use the existing InfoPackage.

If you access an external system with the data request, you must make the data available in special formats. You can find additional information about this in the sections Structure linkMaintaining InfoSources (Flat Files) and Structure linkMaintaining InfoSources (External Systems)).

InfoPackages have a connection to the BW Structure linktransport system and Structure linkdocument management.

Procedure

  1. Highlight a source system in the InfoSource tree in the Administrator Workbench.
  2. Choose Context menu (right mouse click) ® Create InfoPackage and enter any alphanumeric or numeric name for the InfoPackage.
  3. Dialog box that follows will show you which source system you want to load data and to which InfoSource. You will see the DataSources that are assigned to the InfoSource to which data is to be loaded.

  4. Select a DataSource for which you want to load data into BW.

If the InfoPackage is scheduled, data is loaded into BW from the DataSource selected here.

Now go through the procedure for the relevant system:

Procedure for SAP Systems

Procedure for Flat Files

Procedure for External Systems with BAPI Functions

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