(Glue-2111) Glue Components
Glue Cockpit
Transaction
/DVD/GLUE
To launch the Glue Cockpit, use the transaction code /DVD/GLUE. Glue Cockpit provides overall information about the usage of Glue and provides navigation to all Glue modules and features.
Overview figures
Jobs Overview (last 24 hours)
Running requests - Glue requests with the status “Running”
Failed requests - Glue requests that have failed due to an error - status “Failed”
Finished requests - Glue requests that were successfully finished without any error - status “Ended Successfully”
Scheduled requests - Glue requests that have been postponed due to lack of SAP system resources or requests that have been scheduled to some date/time in the future.
Design
Glue Tables - count of Glue tables (active or saved state)
Extractors - count of Extractor 1.0 extractors + total count of Extractor 2.0 Extraction processes (active or saved state)
- Glue Queues - count of Glue tables (active state)
Automate
Stream - count of watched objects by Trigger Delta Watchdog with check period 1 second (stream)
Batch - count of watched objects by Trigger Delta Watchdog with check period > 1 second + scheduled GLUE requests with load type other than “Full load”
- Structure Watchdog - status (running or stopped)
- Cleanup Watchdog - status (running or stopped)
Clicking on the yellow arrows next to each category the user can display the list of requests belonging to the category.
Glue Components
- Request monitor - monitors ongoing or past extraction processes.
- Object Navigator - organizes programming in an integrated development environment.
Data Dictionary - management of Glue tables.
Data Browser - displays data stored from target storage.
- Business Objects - allows users, especially data scientists, to easily replicate SAP tables into target storage.
- Storage Management - provides an interface for connecting to target storage.
- Transport Management - transporting of Glue objects between SAP systems.
- Structure watchdog - checks pairs DDIC Table ↔︎ Glue Table for differences in the structure.
- Cleanup watchdog - removes Glue metadata based on specified criteria and retention period.
- Delta watchdog - provides a way to repeatedly execute trigger delta or Glue Queue extraction jobs.
- Extraction Scheduler - scheduling of multiple extractions.
Application toolbar
Refresh - refresh the values on the screen
License - license management
Glue settings - Extractor 2.0, File storage settings etc.
Trigger management
Glue Transaction Codes
You can use custom Glue transactions to access specific Glue features.
To get the complete list of Glue transactions, see the chapter below: