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Use

You can use the API service to send data to the BW system by pull.

For connections to SAP systems, there are defined BI Content interfaces. These are used by application-specific extractors, each of which is hard-coded for the DataSource delivered with BI Content.

API

Use

Generic extractor

Customer-defined extractors can be developed

Interface Properties:

  • Write interface

  • Programming language is ABAP

  • Mass data is supported

  • Execution in dialog/background

  • No programming knowledge required (except for generic extractor with data retrieval API).

  • A DataSource (except for Web Service DataSource) or an InfoProvider is required as a prerequisite.

More information:

You can see an example in the system in the ABAP Editor: RSAX_BIW_GET_DATA_SIMPLE.

We recommend using BI Content DataSources.

For more information, see: