Importance of BW objects – BI Admin Cockpit (TA RSTCIMP)

Define Importance is activity within installing BI Admin Cockpit. The Cockpit 

sometimes also known as BW Admin Cockpit (SMP component BW-BCT-TCT)

is BW’s functionality for monitoring of BW’s performance. The Cockpit enables 

you to see utilization of your BW systems in terms of data loading and query

runs.  It is based on the technical BI content for runtime and status data 

for BW objects and activities. It was previously in BW 3.x known as 

BW Statistics. 

You can setup the cockpit as per step-by-step guide in SAP Note: 934848 

collective note: (FAQ) BI Administration Cockpit. IMG path to set it up is as 

follows:

SPRO -> SAP NetWeaver -> Business Intelligence -> Settings for BI Content 

-> Business Intelligence -> BI Administration Cockpit.

Within the setup there is optional IMG activity (Define Importance, TA 

RSTCIMP), you can assign importance of BW objects. Importance is then 

useful while you analyze statistics data (for example for filtering or sorting).

You can set up the importance for following objects:

·         Queries

·         MulitProviders

·         InfoSets

·         InfoCubes

·         DataStore objects

·         Process chains

Importance is basically number from range 0-100. By default all the BW

objects are having importance value set to 50. You need to uncheck 

default value checker Inh (Inherit values from related objects) to enable 

yourself to enter different value. Data of importance is stored in table 

RSTCIMPDIR.