I am looking for an SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1.5 function that list all the tables and all the fields used in each report we have. We have hundreds of reports.
The result of the function would list all the Reports, Tables used in each report, Fields in each table, Type, Description, and Value.
Is there a tool or function that can do this quick and painlessly?
We are on SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.1 Support Pack 5 Patch 13
Version: 14.1.5.1979.
Thank you!!
Michael
SAP doesn't make this sort of task easy. You can do it using the SDK if you want to go for a deep dive into technical details and some programming.
Perhaps a better alternative would be to purchase a product like those offered by APOS or GB & Smith.
Best of luck,
Noel
Related
I know nothing in sap BO yet...
I'm a BI analyst and I inherited of an old Data warehouse not well documented. I'm trying to know if a table in my warehouse is part of universe/Report/Dashboard, so I get a view of the impact in Front-End of modifying this table. Of course I want to do that programmatically since I have dozens of fact tables.
I'm sure there is a way from BO !! I know that there is a Sdk and RestAPI but I admit I don't understand what should be used. I'm a SQL developer so I sure missed something.
From where should I start ? I need to know how to do things, what tools. Then I'll get an external developer to help.
Do you have UNV or UNX type universes ? In any case would suggest first to document the universe using a third party tool. I have used http://biclever.com/software/unx-universe-documenter/ for UNX documentation
It extracts the objects used in the universe and their associated database fields / table etc in an excel file
Above would be a free approach, but will require some manual effort (checking each and every field for example)
Paid tools are there to do Impact Analysis with tools like 360 eyes, Sherlock, Metaminer, APOS and maybe SAP product like Information Steward
Hope this helps
What is the difference between SAP HANA, S/4HANA and HANA Cloud Platform?
Can anyone explain?
regards,
Umar Abdullah
There are other smaller differences
I strongly disagree in that point with Andras. S/4 have dogmatic, major, significant differences over ECC which makes it almost a new product. Among others:
Completely new Fiori interface for apps
A bunch of modules were removed or merged. E.g. WM, LIS were removed in favor of EWM, CO was merged into FI (ACDOCA table), Foreign Trade was removed in favor of GTS and much more.
Several modules were completely rewritten, e.g. Finance instead of FI with completely new tables
All aggregations/calculations now done in CDS views
Completely new data model, i.e. new tables
And this is not a full list. More materials here:
https://blogs.sap.com/2018/06/25/sap-finance-sub-module-comparison-from-ecc-to-s4-hana/
https://blogs.sap.com/2016/05/16/s4-hana-and-its-differences-with-ecc/
https://blogs.sap.com/2015/11/06/architecture-of-s4-hana/
https://blogs.sap.com/2016/04/25/planning-your-jouney-to-sap-s4hana/
https://blogs.sap.com/2018/08/10/sap-controlling-co-sub-modules-comparison-from-ecc-to-s4-hana/
All are services and software from SAP SE:
HANA is a database that you can use instead of MsSQL, Oracle or DB2 in your systems
S/4 is the incompatible successor of ECC (itself the successor of R/3), the main ERP product of SAP. It only runs on HANA, while R/3 worked with ASE, DB2, MaxDB, MsSQL, or Oracle.
New data model, for example in Financials table ACDOCA replaces COEP, COBK, ANEK, ANEP, ANEA and several other tables
Some less used modules are removed, some are added
There are other smaller differences, like matnr field becoming 40 characters instead of 18
HANA Cloud Platform is the HANA specific part of SAP Cloud Platform
SAP has invested heavily in HANA and S / 4 HANA products and has created quite a few interesting products lately even though customers now seem confused by the possibility of having so many choices available.
It is also difficult to choose the most suitable product for your company
It is important to understand what different options we now have with respect to cloud / on premise deployments and how S / 4 HANA will impact your business investment.
The purpose of this article is to try to provide you with details on the basic SAP products that are on the market today.
Below we see the main SAP products in circulation on the market:
Tutorial: SAP HANA/S4 HANA Products Available on The Market
How can I find all reports that have more than 200 000 lines?
I have checked SCI and CODE_SCANNER, did not find anything like this there.
You could research the report RS_ABAP_SOURCE_SCAN and see how SAP searches in Reports. This way you can create your own ABAP report which searches for large reports.
Hope this helps.
Well, first: Do you know the name of the reports?
If not you first have to get a list of name for all objects that are in your interest. You could browse the table TADIR directly and search for the objects.
If you are looking for Reports only (and not for Function Modules and Classes)
you can use the internal commands READ REPORT or LOAD REPORT.
While SAP offers a lot of functions and methods for source codes they were, at least in older releases, not the most performant once.
But again with 7.4 a lot has improved.
What is the difference between the following SAP ABAP help documents.
Why are their two set of documents for the same product - ABAP
http://help.sap.com/abapdocu_702/en/
and
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73ehp1/helpdata/en/43/41341147041806e10000000a1553f6/frameset.htm
Why would SAP want to maintain 2 seperate set of documentation for ABAP?
Because 7.02 and 7.31 are actually different versions, believe it or not. There are a number of articles on SCN that go into the details, like this one.
Here comes a simple question but hard to find its answer.
Is there an ABAP Workbench (also known by the transaction code SE80 in SAP R/3) in SAP Business One 2007?
The workbench should be open and not just for SAP use. I would like to know if it's possible to create custom ABAP programs in this SAP solution.
It's not hard to find the answer at all if you bother searching. There is no ABAP Workbench in B1 because B1 is not built on top of the NetWeaver/ABAP stack.
SAP Business One is not built on NetWeaver platform, so there will be no way you can have an ABAP application server. Also, for your information, SBO is not a R/3 Structure .About the technical part in SBO, it has a SQL database and you can only write SQL queries to retrieve data and generate reports. There is a query generator to help you write queries. To conclude, data processing in SBO is very limited comparing to ABAP.
You need to use either .NET/Java for customising or developing screens in SAP Business One.
It doesn't have any relation with ABAP and there are no transaction codes in SAP Business One.
About the technical part in SBO, it has a SQL database and you can only write SQL queries to retrieve data and generate reports. There is a query generator to help you write queries. To conclude, data processing in SBO is very limited comparing to ABAP.
But once you have the data you can do whatever you want with it, for e.g the now native Crystal Report rutime in SBO...Also it has a a pretty rich and mature COM-based SDK for putting data in as well, the DI API (as well as the DI Server which is XML-based). I create solutions for SBO with these all the time in my job...