Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Cube-like aDSO object

In my other post, I introduced different flavors of an aDSO objects. In this post, I want to go deeper with one of them – cube-like aDSO object.

Aim of the cube-like aDSO object is to replicate behavior of infocube object that we know from classic (NetWeaver based) releases of SAP BW. It is used to model data warehouse layer – data mart according LSA++ architecture. The object does not have change log (CL) table. There are only two tables underneath:

1 Inbound data (AQ or AX for a cold storage) - stores newly loaded data identified by data load requests, similar to F-table in classic cube.

2 Active data (AT) – stores compressed data by activation requests, similar to E-table in classic cube.

Data is moved from inbound table to active one upon its activation (also known as aggregation). Once all data is activated, there is no data in the inbound table.

The cube-like aDSO object setup is following. "Active data" and "All Characteristics are Key" check boxes are checked.

BW4/HANA


BW75


Reporting on the cube-like ADSOs is performed as a union of inbound and active tables. This behavior is referred as stable navigation. There is no need to activate the data as both tables are used for the querying the data.

There are few remarks with regard to a deletion of the cube-like aDSO object. Request based deletion works if the data is only available in the inbound/new (AQ, e.g. /BIC/A*1 Inbound Table) table. Once the data is activated it is not possible to delete the request in the aDSO. There is only possibility to complete content deletion or a selective deletion. If a possibility to delete the requests is needed the data must not be activated.

Cube-like aDSO is sometimes referred as DataMart DSO (or DataMart aDSO).

More information:

Onlinedocu - infocube

Onlinedocu – datawarehouse layer – delta calculation

Flavors of aDSO object

3102582 - Request Based Deletion does not work as expected

3116509 - Deletion of overlapping request for ADSO is not working in case if the request is activated in target of ADSO type cube


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