Creating IPS and Data Services repositories
The IPS repository is a storage for environment and user configuration information and metadata collected by various services of IPS and Data Services. It has another name: the CMS database. This name should be quite familiar to those who have used SAP Business Intelligence software. Basically, IPS is a light version of SAP BI product package. You will always use only one IPS repository per Data Services installation and most likely will deal with it only once: when configuring the environment at the very beginning. Most of the time, Data Services will be communicating with IPS services and the CMS database in the background, without you even noticing.
The Data Services repository is a different story. It is much closer to an ETL developer as it is a database that stores your developed code. In a multiuser development environment, every ETL developer usually has its own repository. They can be of two types: central and local. They serve different...