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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

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...