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SAP Data Services 4.x Cookbook

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SAP Data Services 4.x Cookbook

Overview of this book

Want to cost effectively deliver trusted information to all of your crucial business functions? SAP Data Services delivers one enterprise-class solution for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and text data processing. It boosts productivity with a single solution for data quality and data integration. SAP Data Services also enables you to move, improve, govern, and unlock big data. This book will lead you through the SAP Data Services environment to efficiently develop ETL processes. To begin with, you’ll learn to install, configure, and prepare the ETL development environment. You will get familiarized with the concepts of developing ETL processes with SAP Data Services. Starting from smallest unit of work- the data flow, the chapters will lead you to the highest organizational unit—the Data Services job, revealing the advanced techniques of ETL design. You will learn to import XML files by creating and implementing real-time jobs. It will then guide you through the ETL development patterns that enable the most effective performance when extracting, transforming, and loading data. You will also find out how to create validation functions and transforms. Finally, the book will show you the benefits of data quality management with the help of another SAP solution—Information Steward.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
SAP Data Services 4.x Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring Access Server


Access Server is required for real-time jobs to work. In this recipe, we will go through the steps of creating and configuring the Access Server component that will be required for our next recipe, where we are going to create our first real-time job.

Getting ready

Access Server can be created and configured with the help of two Data Services tools: Data Services Server Manager () and Data Services Management Console ().

How to do it…

  1. Start SAP Data Services Server Manager.

  2. Go to the Access Server tab.

  3. Click on the Configuration Editor button.

  4. On the Access Server Configuration Editor window, click on the Add button.

  5. Fill in the Access Server configuration fields, as shown in the following screenshot:

  6. Do not forget to enable Access Server by ticking the corresponding option.

  7. Click on OK to close and save the changes.

  8. Start the SAP Data Services Management console in your browser and log in.

  9. Go to the Administrator | Management section.

  10. Click on the Add button to add the previously...