Generic Extraction Steps

GENERIC EXTRACTION CREATE A VIEW ZHEM_GENR

SPECIFY THE 2 DIFFERENT TABLES- MARA &MARC UNDER TABLES VIEW OF TABLE/JOIN CONDITIONS:

SELECT THE TABLES AND CLICK ON RELATIONSHIPS BUTTON UNDER THAT AND SELECT THE FIELDS AND CLICK COPY:

NOW GO TO VIEW FLDS TAB PAGE AND CLICK TABLE FIELDS BUTTON AND SELCT THE NEEDED FIELDS: VIEWS WORK ON JOINS – IT MEANS THE COMMON FIELS IN BOTH THE SELECTED TABLES SHOULD BE THE SAME AND THE SAME IS TO BE SELECTED. HERE MATNR IS THE COMMON FIELD.

ACTIVATE THE VIEW:

THE NXT SCREEN WILL SHOW YOU THE INACTIVE OBJECTS AND PROMPT FOR ACTIVATION:

GENERALLY WARNINGS ARE GIVEN – IGNORE THE WARNINGS:

ACTIVE OBJECT IS GENERATED:

CLICK ON THE CONTENTS BUTTON ABOVE TO VIEW THE CONTENTS OF THE VIEW:

CREATE A GENERIC DATASOURCE: GO TO TRANSACTION RSO2 AND NAME UR DATASOURCE.

FILL IN THE FIELDS APLICATION COMPONENT, SHORT/ MEDIUM AND LONG DESCRIPTION AND VIEW THAT WE HAVE JUST CREATED AND SAVE:

SELECT/ HIDE FIELDS NEEDED FOR UR REQUIREMENT AND SAVE:

CHECK THE DATA IN R/3, GOTO T-CODE RSA3 AND EXECUTE:

THE NXT SCREEN WILL LOOK LIKE THIS:

GO TO BI, T-CODE RSA13(RSA1 AND SOURCE SYSTEM). GO TO THE YOUR SPECIFIC APPLICATION(HERE, MM-IO) AND CONTEXT MENU, REPLICATE METADATA:

THE NEWELY CREATED DATA SOURCE IN R/3 WILL BE DISPLAYED IN BI AND SYSTEM WILL PROMPT WHETHER TO CREATE THE NEW DATA SOURCE AS BI DATA SOURCE OR OLDER 3.X DATA SOURCE:

ONCE YOU SELECT AS NORMAL DS, THE REPLICATION WILL BE DONE. SEE THE STATUS MESSAGE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN:

NOW TRY AND LOCATE YOUR DATA SOURCE IN THE TREE. THIS DATA SOURCE IS NOW IN M VERSION. OBSERVE THE “NOT EQUAL TO” SIGN BESIDE IT:

DOUBLE-CLICK IT AND OPEN IT:

GO TO CHANGE MODE AND ACTIVATE THE DATASOURCE:

REFRESH THE TREE AGAIN AND YOU CAN SEE THE “EQUAL TO” SIGN. THE DATA SOURCE IS NOW ACTIVE AND READY FOR USE:

NOW GO TO INFO OBJECTS UNDER RSA1 AND CREATE THE INFO AREA FOR THIS AND THE RELEVANT INFO OBJECTS:

NOW THAT WE HAVE GENERATED DATA SOURCE AND THE RELAVANT INFO OBJECTS, CREATE INFO PACKAGE AND LOAD DATA INTO PSA. NEXT, CREATE THE DATA TARGET AND DO THE TRANSFORMATIONS AND DTP FOR THE DATA LOAD FROM PSA.