Thursday, August 20, 2026

T-code RSDSD - DataSource Documentation

There is t-code RSDSD available in BW system dated back to year 2005. That was a time when BW 3.x was the king of data ware house market at SAP shops. The t-code was probably created even in BW’s version 3.0B.


The description of the t-code says DataSource Documentation. However, functions that it covers never made it to mainstream usage. From observing the t-code it is dare to say that its functionality is to display, check, and generate technical documentation for DataSources directly within the SAP GUI. Knowledge Warehouse (KW) API are used to store the documentation by generating so called doculinks. As per the KW terminology these are so called Information Workbench (IWB) objects.

Also seems that the tool was originally meant for SAP internal use only. I judge this as the code of the t-code is checking whether the BW system type is SAP or CUSTOMER one (by a call of FM TR_SYS_PARAMS). If the system type is set to CUSTOMER the t-code even doesn’t bother to start.