SUPPORT CONTENT for BW enthusiasts

Help site of SAP – help.sap.com basically contains a documentation for SAP products. On top of that there is a suite of pages so called Support Content. What is meant by that is additional content provided by SAP but not considered the documentation as defined by the applicable SAP General Terms and Conditions.

Main page of the Support Content is: help.sap.com/docs/SUPPORT_CONTENT

Let’s explore what is in there in scope of SAP BW, Data Warehousing and SAP Analytics in general.

Business Warehouse - Data Warehousing and Business Content

Business Warehouse – Analytic Engine (OLAP) and Planning

SAP Datasphere      

Business Warehouse – Frontends

ABAP CDS Analytical Queries

SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform

SAP Crystal Reports

SAP Lumira

SAP HANA Smart Data Integration

Other topics:

Netweaver Technology

Basis Corner

Application Server Infrastructure

Application Services – SAP Cloud Connector

ABAP Development

ABAP Objects

ABAP - FAQ

ABAP How-tos Guides

ABAP Tools

ABAP Connectivity

Executing BW transformation in on-prem/cloud based system

There is a different call of ABAP method that executes the BW transformation introduced for cloud based BW systems. It can be spotted in method TRANSFORM of class CL_RSTRAN_TRFN_CMD. First there is a check if the BW is cloud based system. If so the request parameter (i_r_request) that is passed to a method call is l_r_request_cloud. In case it is on-premise based BW system the value of the same parameter is l_r_request.

 

The two request are generated by a same class and different method call:

cl_rsar_function=>set_request_cloud( i_r_request = l_r_request_cloud ).

cl_rsar_function=>set_request( i_r_request = l_r_request ).

 

In case cloud system the request is instance of IF_RSBK_REQUEST_PROXY_CLOUD.

For on-prem request it is instance IF_RSBK_REQUEST_ADMINTAB_VIEW.

Both the interfaces provide access to runtime attributes of a data load request during its processing. It acts as a bridge between an infoprovider admin screen/tab (in the class called as - IPRO Admin Tab) used for monitoring and administration of requests) and the request object itself in the BW system.