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Before you can use operation data provisioning, you must first configure the relevant settings. The use of SAP HANA or SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator (BWA) is optional. If you are using SAP HANA or BWA for operational data provisioning, you need to perform additional configuration steps.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed the usage types AS ABAP and BI ABAP.

  • If you want to index data for better analysis performance, you must have installed SAP HANA or SAP NetWeaver BWA 7.2.

    Note Note

    Note the licensing conditions when using SAP HANA.

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Procedure

To configure operational data provisioning on your system, perform the following steps:

  1. Make the following general settings that you need to use the embedded search. You can find the following settings in Customizing under   Search and Operational Analytics   General Settings for Operational Analytics and Embedded Search  :

    Note Note

    Once you have configured the general settings for the embedded search, go straight to the next step and configure the specific settings for operational data provisioning.

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    1. Assign the SAP_ESH_LOCAL_ADMIN role to the administrator. This role contains the authorizations required to configure and manage the embedded search and operational data provisioning.

      For more information, see Customizing.

    2. Activate the required Web dynpro services.

      More information: Activating Web Dynpro Services

    3. Optional: If you want to use SAP HANA or BWA, configure the connection and indexing settings as follows:

      1. Create a connection between the ABAP system and the SAP HANA and enter it as the TREX destination in Customizing.

        • For SAP HANA, you need a database connection. Enter the database connection as a TREX destination using the following format: :DB:<name of database connection> (for example, :DB:HANA_ODP).

        • For the BWA, you need an RFC connection to the ABAP system.

        For more information, see Customizing under Creating a Connection Between the Embedded Search and TREX/BWA.

      2. Optional: Define the server group for indexing jobs.

        For more information, see Customizing.

      3. Enter the user that you want to use for the indexing tasks in real time.

        For more information, see Customizing.

  2. If you want to use operational data provisioning without SAP HANA or SAP NetWeaver BWA, navigate to Customizing and enter NO TREX as the TREX destination. Operational data providers without SAP HANA or BWA can only be used if this destination is specified.

    For more information, see Customizing under   Search and Operational Analytics   General Settings for Operational Analytics and Embedded Search   Configuring TREX and Indexing   Specifying a TREX Destination  .

  3. You perform the basic configuration for operational analytics in Customizing. Use the basic configuration report to specify the BW client and activate the required technical content.

    The following prerequisites are required to perform the basic configuration:

    • It must be possible to maintain cross-client objects from the SAP repository.

    • The namespaces with the prefixes /BI0/ and /BIC/ must be flagged as changeable.

    For more information, see Customizing under   Search and Operational Analytics   Operational Data Provisioning for Operational Analytics   Basic Configuration for Operational Analytics  .

  4. In Customizing, specify the modeling client that you want to use as the client for ODP metadata access. Enter an RFC destination that points to this client.

    For these settings, you need the transaction authorization (S_TCODE) for Customizing transaction RODPS_ODP_IMG.

    Note Note

    ODP metadata is automatically read from the BW client, provided that no modeling client is specified in Customizing.

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    More information can be found in Customizing under   Search and Operational Analytics   Operational Data Provisioning for Operational Analytics   Specifying a Modeling Client  .

Result

Once you have completed all of the configuration steps, you need to perform further settings to be able to use operational data provisioning for operational analytics. More information: Operational Analytics with Operational Data Provisioning.