DTP: Track records after failed request

There is an option available for DTPs on its Update tab called “Track Records after Failed Request”. When it is checked, it means that BW systems builds cross-reference table. The cross-reference table that is built when the upload request fails. The table traces an erroneous records of the data load.

This option can only be selected when error handling is set to “Terminate request; no record tracing; no updating”, e.g. when error handling is deactivated.

This option helps performance of data load because there is no tracking of error records during data load process.

Normally when the option is checked for a particular DTP there is a warning message as below shown:

'Attribute 'Automatically Switch Record Tracking On: Value 'X' is obsolete'. RSBK453

This message is shown as there are certain checks executed by a method _CHECK_GENERAL call (of class CL_RSBK_DTP_V). This method calls another one CL_RSBK_DTP_API=>ADMISSIBLE_GET that populates the value. If the check box is enabled the values is equal to following attribute: CL_RSBK_DTP_API=>C_S_ATTRIBUTE-TRACK_RECORDS.

Just to add; SAP recommends (e.g. here for BW/4/HANA or for DataSphere) activating error handling only if errors occur during execution of the DTP. So not by default. If error handling is activated, the data records with errors are written to the data transfer intermediate storage, where they can be corrected before being written to the data target using an error DTP.