Bridge Specifications
| Vendor | SAP |
| Tool Name | Data Services (BODI/BODS) |
| Tool Version | 4.x |
| Tool Web Site | http://www.sap.com/products/data-services.html |
| Supported Methodology | [Data Integration] Multi-Model, ETL (Source and Target Data Stores) via JDBC API |
SPECIFICATIONS
Tool: SAP / Data Services (BODI/BODS) version 4.x via JDBC API
See http://www.sap.com/products/data-services.html
Metadata: [Data Integration] Multi-Model, ETL (Source and Target Data Stores)
Component: SapBoDataServices version 11.0.0
OVERVIEW
This bridge connects to an SAP Data Services (previously BusinessObjects Data Integration) repository to extract the data models of their source and target data stores (e.g. database schema, tables, columns) as well as the data integration ETL/ELT models for the data flow lineage between these data stores.
This bridge tries to resolve table owner name into physical schema name, based on aliasses of datastore configuration. E.g.
If we have table T_1 with owner name t_1_owner, and configuration contains alias t_1_owner -> my_schema.
Then the table T_1 would be placed in schema: my_schema.
REQUIREMENTS
Ensure that the user has permissions to perform SELECT from SAP tables: AL_COLMAP_TEXT,AL_COLMAP,AL_LANGTEXT,AL_LANG
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
n/a
LIMITATIONS
Refer to the current general known limitations at http://metaintegration.com/Products/MIMB/MIMBKnownLimitations.html or bundled in Documentation/ReadMe/MIMBKnownLimitations.html
This bridge only extracts the data flow summary lineage (not all the original design details).
SUPPORT
Provide a trouble shooting package with:
- the debug log (can be set in the UI or in conf/conf.properties with MIR_LOG_LEVEL=6)
- the metadata backup if available (can be set in the Miscellaneous parameter with option -backup)
Bridge Parameters
| Parameter Name | Description | Type | Values | Default | Scope |
| Driver location | The location of JDBC jar files for the underlying database type, e.g. for SQL Server you may use sqljdbc42.jar. You may specify any directory you have permissions to read from. |
FILE | *.* | Mandatory | |
| JDBC URL | The JDBC URL where SAP Repository Data Base is running, e.g. jdbc:sqlserver://SAPHOST:1433;database=SAP_01 OR jdbc:oracle:thin:@SAPHOST:1521:orcl |
STRING | jdbc:sqlserver://localhost:1433 | Mandatory | |
| User | The user name on whose behalf the connection is being made. This username should have permissions to execute SELECT statements on the AL_COLMAP_TEXT and AL_COLMAP tables. It should NOT be a SAP DataServices native user. It must be a database user. | STRING | Mandatory | ||
| Password | The user's password on whose behalf the connection is being made | PASSWORD | Mandatory | ||
| Data Flows | Description: you can specify a list of data flows to import. When the list is empty all available data flows are imported. The list can have one or more data flow names separated by semicolons (e.g. dataflow1; dataflow2). Patterns support inclusions and exclusions. An example of inclusion syntax, "A%; %B; %C%; D" that tries to get data flow names that: - start with A or - end with B or - contain C or - equal D To exclude a pattern prefix it with 'NOT'. Here is an example of exclusion syntax, "A%; %B; NOT %SYS; NOT 'SYS%'" that contributes to the following SQL filter: "where (name like A% or name like %B) and (name not like %SYS) and (name not like 'SYS%')" |
REPOSITORY_SUBSET | |||
| Miscellaneous | Specify miscellaneous options starting with a dash and optionally followed by parameters, e.g. -connection.cast MyDatabase1="SQL Server" Some options can be used multiple times if applicable, e.g. -connection.rename NewConnection1=OldConnection1 -connection.rename NewConnection2=OldConnection2; As the list of options can become a long string, it is possible to load it from a file which must be located in ${MODEL_BRIDGE_HOME}\data\MIMB\parameters and have the extension .txt. In such case, all options must be defined within that file as the only value of this parameter, e.g. ETL/Miscellaneous.txt GENERAL OPTIONS -m <Java Memory's maximum size> 1G by default on 64bits JRE or as set in conf/conf.properties, e.g. -m 8G -m 8000M -j <Java Runtime Environment command line options> This option must be the last one in the Miscellaneous parameter as all the text after -j is passed "as is" to the JRE, e.g. -j -Dname=value -Xms1G The following option must be set when a proxy is used to access internet (this is critical to access https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ (and exceptionally a few other tool sites) in order to download the necessary third party software libraries. -j -Dhttp.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttp.proxyPort=3128 -Dhttps.proxyHost=127.0.0.1 -Dhttps.proxyPort=3128 -Dhttp.proxyUser=user -Dhttp.proxyPassword=pass -Dhttps.proxyUser=user -Dhttps.proxyPassword=pass -jre <Java Runtime Environment full path name> It can be an absolute path to javaw.exe on Windows or a link/script path on Linux, e.g. -jre "c:\Program Files\Java\jre1.8.0_211\bin\javaw.exe" -v <Environment variable value> None by default, e.g. -v var1=value1 -v var2="value2 with spaces" -model.name <model name> Override the model name, e.g. -model.name "My Model Name" -prescript <script name> The script must be located in the bin directory, and have .bat or .sh extension. The script path must not include any parent directory symbol (..). The script should return exit code 0 to indicate success, or another value to indicate failure. For example: -prescript "script.bat arg1 arg2" -cache.clear Clears the cache before the import, and therefore will run a full import without incremental harvesting. Warning: this is a system option managed by the application calling the bridge and should not be set by users. -backup <directory> Full path of an empty directory to save the metadata input files for further troubleshooting. -pppd Create the connections and connection data sets in DI/ETL design models. This feature should only be used when intending to export to another DI/ETL tool. SAP DATA SERVICES -statistics=<Statistics_file_path> Produce ETL import statistics, e.g. Statistics=C:\Temp\Stats.csv |
STRING |
Bridge Mapping
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