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Drill Down Test Case Definition

Drill Down Variants selection screen allows you to create new or add existing Drill Down Variants into a Drill Down Test Case. All functions are accessible from toolbar menu. After you click on the 'Variants' button a screen for ListCube Variants selection is displayed. 

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1. Description – Add a description of the new Drill Down Variant.
2. RFC Destination A – Is the RFC Destination of the system where InfoProvider A is to be read. When the RFC destination is specified in the InfoProvider A field, the F4 help is available.
3. InfoProvider A – The technical name for InfoProvider A. F4 help is available for this field.
4. Data Access Type A:
   1. Read Online Data – option to read the only online data in the generated ListCube variant for InfoProvider A.
   2. Read Online + NLS Data – option to read both the online and the NLS Data in the generated ListCube variant for InfoProvider A. This option is ignored for releases below 7.3 (i.e. only the online data will be read for lower releases).
   3. Read Only NLS Data – option to read only the NLS data in the generated ListCube variant for InfoProvider A. InfoProviders that are to be read needs need to have an active DAP created.
5. Read NLS Data – Gives you the option to use NLS Data in the ListCube for InfoProvider A.
6. Use mat. aggregates – To choose if mat. aggregates should be used in the generated ListCube variant for InfoProvider A.
7. Use Conversion Exit –  If enabled, on writing into the cluster step, the info objects conversion exit will be applied to the data for InfoProvider A. Important Note: In the current version of Validate the Automated Root Cause Analysis doesn't support this.
8. RFC Destination B – Is the RFC Destination of the system where InfoProvider B is to be read. When the RFC destination is specified in the InfoProvider B field, the F4 help is available.
9. InfoProvider B – The technical name of InfoProvider B. F4 help is available for this field.
10. Data Access Type B:
    1. Read Online Data – option to only read the online data in the generated ListCube variant for InfoProvider B.
    2. Read Online + NLS Data – option to read the NLS Data in the generated ListCube variant for InfoProvider B. This option is ignored for releases below 7.3 (i.e. only online data will be read for such releases).
    3. Read Only NLS Data – option to read only the NLS data for the generated ListCube variant for InfoProvider B. InfoProviders that are to be read needs need to have an active DAP created.
11. Use mat. aggregates – To choose if mat.aggregates are to be used in the generated ListCube variant for InfoProvider B.
12. Use Conversion Exit – If enabled, on writing into the cluster step, the info objects conversion exit will be applied to the data for InfoProvider B. Important Note: In the current version of Validate the Automated Root Cause Analysis doesn't support this.
13. Drill Down Characteristics – is Is the list of characteristics that are going to be used during Drill Down execution for the two specified InfoProviders. F4 help for this select option, but only displays characteristics that exist in both of the InfoProviders. The Order of characteristics is an important select option because it needs to define the order of how they are to be added to the ListCube execution in case any errors are found.
14. No BWA Characteristics – You can define the selection of characteristics (as subset of Drill Down Characteristics) because when they are added to the ListCube read during Drill Down execution, the use of BWA is excluded.
15. Display Number of Hits – Gives the option to choose if the column 'ROWCOUNT' is to be added to output of ListCube for both of the InfoProviders.
16. InfoProvider A Referenced Time point – Is a date and time setting that is used in following way: When a Drill Down Variant references a time point for InfoProvider A, a check is performed before the execution for a load request ID from all of the requests in system that has an update time equal or lower than the specified referenced time point. This request ID is then used in the ListCube read during the Drill Down execution as a filter on the 0REQUID field. Please refer to ('Create new ListCube Variant') section for more information regarding the Reference Time point behavior.
17. InfoProvider B Referenced Time point – Performs the same check but for InfoProvider B. Please refer to ('Create new ListCube Variant') section for more information.
18. Exclude InfoProvider A old data – changes the behavior of A InfoProvider referenced time point setting, so only the records newer then specified time point would be read.
19. Exclude InfoProvider B old data – changes the behavior of B InfoProvider referenced time point setting, so only the records newer then specified time point would be read.
20. Excluded Key Figures – Key figures that will be excluded from the selection of both InfoProviders. If the excluded key figure uses a unit and no other non-excluded key figure depends on the unit, it is also excluded from the selection.
21. Excluded Units – Units that will be excluded from the selection of both InfoProviders. For all excluded units the appropriate key figures are as well excluded.

To save the Drill Down Variant, click the 'Continue' button (Enter), various . Various checks are done to ensure the correctness of variant definition before saving.
*Important Notes:

• If any 'No BWA Characteristic' is specified, then the ListCube read in the Drill Down scenario stops to use the BWA immediately after any of these characteristics are added to output during the test cycle.

Add Existing Drill Down VariantDown Variant 

Displays the existing Drill Down variants in system and you can select one or more variants to be added into the current test case.

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