Title: Size of the ODS

Date:
Document: BW Knowledge_013

Introduction
The amount of data stored in the ODS has a significant impact on the disk space
required. This document shows how to find what tables are stored in the ODS, and
how large they are.

Information
You can see all the objects that in the ODS via transaction RSA1.
RSA1 --> Monitoring --> (ODS) Status Overview

To see the tables that lie behind a ODS object:

Select an ODS object
Select Manage
Select the ODS object in the top section of the screen
This will take you to the data browser screen for the data dictionary table for this
ODS object.

For the ODS there are three transparent tables that are of interest:
- The ODS table for active data
- The ODS table for new data
- The change log table

The active and the new data tables have names that begin '/BIC/A'
eg
/BIC/AYGTFCOPA00 = ODS object YGTFCOPA : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTFCOPA10 = ODS object YGTFCOPA : New records

You can find all the tables for an ODS object via:
 Select the ODS object
Select Display
Select Extras --> Information (logs / Status) --> Dictionary DB status

To find all the ODS tables use the data Dictionary to search for all tables that begin
'/BIC/A'.

Example
All ODS tables for G51

/BIC/AYGTDSO0300 ODS object YGTDSO03 : Actve records

/BIC/AYGTDSO0310 ODS object YGTDSO03 : New records
/BIC/AYGTDSO0400 ODS object YGTDSO04 : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTDSO0410 ODS object YGTDSO04 : New records
/BIC/AYGTDSO4000 ODS object YGTDSO40 : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTDSO4010 ODS object YGTDSO40 : New records
/BIC/AYGTFCCES00 ODS object YGTFCCES : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTFCCES10 ODS object YGTFCCES : New records
/BIC/AYGTFCOAP00 ODS object YGTFCOAP : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTFCOAP10 ODS object YGTFCOAP : New records
/BIC/AYGTFCOPA00 ODS object YGTFCOPA : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTFCOPA10 ODS object YGTFCOPA : New records
/BIC/AYGTFCPLA00 ODS object YGTFCPLA : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTFCPLA10 ODS object YGTFCPLA : New records
/BIC/AYGTGD00200 ODS object YGTGD002 : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTGD00210 ODS object YGTGD002 : New records
/BIC/AYGTHR00100 ODS object YGTHR001 : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTHR00110 ODS object YGTHR001 : New records
/BIC/AYGTPP00400 ODS object YGTPP004 : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTPP00410 ODS object YGTPP004 : New records
/BIC/AYGTPP00500 ODS object YGTPP005 : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTPP00510 ODS object YGTPP005 : New records
/BIC/AYGTTPDHD00 ODS object YGTTPDHD : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTTPDHD10 ODS object YGTTPDHD : New records
/BIC/AYGTTPMH100 ODS object YGTTPMH1 : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTTPMH110 ODS object YGTTPMH1 : New records
/BIC/AYGTTPVAR00 ODS object YGTTPVAR : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTTPVAR10 ODS object YGTTPVAR : New records
/BIC/AYGTTP_DT00 ODS object YGTTP_DT : Actve records
/BIC/AYGTTP_DT10 ODS object YGTTP_DT : New records

You can then use the data dictionary to find the size of each of these tables.

Size of an ODS table (Active records)

For example, to find the size of the active ODS table for Profitability Analysis
Controlling (Line Items) - /BIC/AYGTFCOPA00.

In SE11 display the ODS table then:

Select Extras --> Table length

To get the number of entries in this table:

Use Utilities --> Table contents --> Display data --> Number of entries

Multiply the table width by the number of rows to get the size of this table in the ODS.
In this example:
Size of ODS table = 1844 * 129719 / 1048576 = 228 MB

Size of an ODS table (New records)

After activation of data the table for new data is empty, so the space needed for new
data can in most cases be neglected.

Size of an ODS table (Change log)

The number of records of the change log table depends on the average number of
updates and the delta type used for the ODS object. Up to three records are stored in
the change log for every update of one record in the active data (Before and/or After
and/or Reverse Image or Additive Delta).

You can use SE11 to find the width of a change log table, and the number of records
it contains

For example, to find the size of the change log ffor the ODS table for Profitability
Analysis Controlling (Line Items), the change log table is /BIC/B0000265000 -
Transfer Structure Application 8YGTFCOPA

In SE11 display the ODS table then:

Select Extras --> Table length = 1884 bytes

To get the number of entries in this table:

Use Utilities --> Table contents --> Display data --> Number of entries = 129719

Multiply the table width by the number of rows to get the size of this change log table
in the ODS. In this example:
Size of change log ODS table = 1884 * 129719 / 1048576 = 233 MB

Total Size of the ODS

You can calculate the total size of the ODS by adding up the sizes of all the tables
that are in the ODS.