InfoSets

This chapter describes why InfoSets are useful and shows how to gain an overview of existing InfoSets and how to manage them.

SAP Query allows you to evaluate data in the SAP system. But since the SAP system contains several hundred thousand fields in logical databases, tables and sequential datasets, it is simply not practical to offer all these fields for selection when creating queries. Therefore, before starting to create queries (using the component Maintain Queries), you create InfoSets (using the component Maintain InfoSets). Functional areas provide the user with a framework for defining a query quickly and without difficulty.

When you create an InfoSet, you select a logical database from an application system. However, since one logical database can still contain a very large number of fields, you combine fields together in logical units known as field groups.

An InfoSet not only allows you to restrict the number of fields and group them together in meaningful units, but also to define auxiliary fields and then process them like database fields. You can also read the long texts in additional tables (for example the long text of an airline carrier in the table SCARR) and perform any necessary preliminary work. This means that you can evaluate sequential data sets just as easily as SAP databases. For further information, refer to Creating and Changing InfoSets .

The initial screen of the component Maintain InfoSets offers you a range of functions for maintaining InfoSets .