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SAP Data Services 4.x Cookbook

By : Shomnikov
Book Image

SAP Data Services 4.x Cookbook

By: Shomnikov

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 (14 chapters)
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11. Working with SAP Applications
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Index

Performing Metadata Management tasks


The second tool available in Information Steward after Data Insight is Metadata Management.

The Metadata Management tool is used to collect metadata information from various systems in order to get a comprehensive view of it and to analyze the relationships between metadata objects.

In this recipe, we will take a look at the example of using Metadata Management on our Data Service repository, which stores the ETL code developed for recipes of this book.

Getting ready

As with Data Insight, we have to first establish connectivity to the Data Services repository. This is usually an administration task that can be done in CMC in the Information Steward | Metadata Management section. Click on Create an integrator source and fill in all the required fields, as shown in the following screenshot, to define a connection to Data Services repository for the Metadata Management tool:

After creating an integrator source object, you have to run it by using the Run Now option...