New Features
Extractor 2.0
A new concept of data extraction using 3 extraction components:
- Fetcher - provides the data from some source (URL, SAP SLT, Table ...).
- Consumer - stores/beams the data or consumes the data in any other way defined.
- Extraction process that starts with Fetcher, ends with Consumer and allows the definition of data transformation in between.
The following features were introduced to the new Extractor 2.0 concept:
- ADSO extraction
- Enables to extract all types of ADSO objects.
- Delta extraction is supported.
- BEx Query extraction
- Support of BEx Query and Query Views extraction into tabular form.
- Customer exists are also supported.
- Option to import fields from BEx Query/View into a Glue table.
- FIFO extraction
- This type of extraction enables to extract data from SAP table in a short time by copying it to a cluster table in order to move it subsequently to Glue table.
- The data extraction consists of the following steps:
- Copy data from a SAP table to a cluster table.
- Copy data from a cluster table to a target Glue table.
- Delete the data from a cluster table (automatic operation).
Parallelization of Glue extractions
There are 2 new approaches available to extract the data in parallel (to speed up the extraction process):
- Generate variants, based on one of the fields specified for selection in Glue Extractor, and use Task Handler to execute them.
- Use Mass Execution, which automizes the generation of variants. Also in this option, the Task Handler is used for an execution.
Glue API
- Glue API was extended of selective deletion.
Improvements
- Data Dictionary
- Glue table defines, in the case of File Storage, the destination container/folder where the generated files will be stored.
The container field in File Storage options is by default pre-filled with the Glue table name.
Also case sensitive container names are supported. - GLREQUEST is by default non-key field.
- Glue table defines, in the case of File Storage, the destination container/folder where the generated files will be stored.
- Glue extractors
- You can define the variant package size in MBs.
- It is possible to skip the records during the extraction process.
- Data enrichment and meaningful values options were reorganized.
- In the extractor manage screen, you can clear request metadata of an extractor.
- You can reset delta information and start the extraction from the beginning.
- Trigger the delta supports extraction with an operation details.
- You can export the data into .csv with the compression.
- User cannot select the fields with data type FLTP for a selection.
- ABAP extractor interface was adjusted to support custom post-extraction processing.
- DSO extractor gives you an option to reset the delta values.
- InfoCube/DSO extractors support FULL delta.
- Transport Management
- Transport procedure was reworked. See this documentation for more information.
Fixes
- Data Dictionary
- Alter table did work on Glue tables with File Storage.
- Glue Browser
- Selection screen didn't work if the character ` was part of the Glue Data Dictionary description.
- Glue Browser was dumping when multiple sessions accessed the same table.
- Glue Workbench
- DF34_DEC data type was not supported.
- Glue Workbench terminated when a user was recreating previously transported extractor.
- Variant Generator
- The variant generator was accessible only from the extractor workbench, not from Object Navigator.
- The generated variant was asking for save action.
- Timestamp delta was missing an option to capture all delays.
- ABAP extractor type was not working with CSVs.
- Transport Management
- Activation of transported Glue tables with File Storage was failing on the target system.
- Extractor with trigger delta was not transported correctly.