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SelfRevisionQuestionsOnSAPBW
WhatarethestepsinvolvedinLOExtraction?

Thestepsare:

RSA5SelecttheDataSources

LBWEMaintainDataSourcesandActivateExtractStructures

LBWGDeleteSetupTables

0LI*BWSetuptables

RSA3CheckextractionandthedatainSetuptables

LBWQChecktheextractionqueue

LBWFLogforLOExtractStructures

RSA7BWDeltaQueueMonitor

HowtocreateaconnectionwithLISInfoStructures?

LBW0ConnectingLISInfoStructurestoBW

WhatisthedifferencebetweenODSandInfoCubeandMultiProvider?

ODS:

Providesgranulardata,allowsoverwriteanddataisintransparenttables,idealfordrilldownandRRI.

CUBE:

Followsthestarschema,wecanonlyappenddata,idealforprimaryreporting.

dMultiProvider:

Doesnothavephysicaldata.ItallowstoaccessdatafromdifferentInfoProviders(Cube,ODS,InfoObject).It
isalsopreferredforreporting.

WhatareStartroutines,TransferroutinesandUpdateroutines?

StartRoutines:

ThestartroutineisrunforeachDataPackageafterthedatahasbeenwrittentothePSAandbeforethetransfer
ruleshavebeenexecuted.Itallowscomplexcomputationsforakeyfigureoracharacteristic.Ithasnoreturn
value.ItspurposeistoexecutepreliminarycalculationsandtostoretheminglobalDataStructures.This
structureortablecanbeaccessedintheotherroutines.TheentireDataPackageinthetransferstructureformat
isusedasaparameterfortheroutine.

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Transfer/UpdateRoutines:

TheyaredefinedattheInfoObjectlevel.ItisliketheStartRoutine.ItisindependentoftheDataSource.We
canusethistodefineGlobalDataandGlobalChecks.

Whatisthedifferencebetweenstartroutineandupdateroutine,when,howandwhyaretheycalled?

StartroutinecanbeusedtoaccessInfoPackagewhileupdateroutinesareusedwhileupdatingtheData
Targets.

Whatisthetablethatisusedinstartroutines?

AlwaysthetablestructurewillbethestructureofanODSorInfoCube.ForexampleifitisanODSthenactive
tablestructurewillbethetable.

ExplainhowyouusedStartroutinesinyourproject.

Startroutinesareusedformassprocessingofrecords.InstartroutinealltherecordsofDataPackageis
availableforprocessing.Sowecanprocessalltheserecordstogetherinstartroutine.Inoneofscenario,we
wantedtoapplysize%totheforecastdata.ForexampleifmaterialM1isforecastedtosay100inMay.Then
afterapplyingsize%(Small20%,Medium40%,Large20%,ExtraLarge20%),wewantedtohave4records
againstonesinglerecordthatiscomingintheinfopackage.Thisisachievedinstartroutine.

WhatareReturnTables?

Whenwewanttoreturnmultiplerecords,insteadofsinglevalue,weusethereturntableintheUpdate
Routine.Example:IfwehavetotaltelephoneexpenseforaCostCenter,usingareturntablewecanget
expenseperemployee.

Howdostartroutineandreturntablesynchronizewitheachother?

ReturntableisusedtoreturntheValuefollowingtheexecutionofstartroutine

WhatisthedifferencebetweenV1,V2andV3updates?

V1Update:

ItisaSynchronousupdate.HeretheStatisticsupdateiscarriedoutatthesametimeasthedocumentupdate
(intheapplicationtables).

V2Update:

ItisanAsynchronousupdate.StatisticsupdateandtheDocumentupdatetakeplaceasdifferenttasks.

V1&V2dontneedscheduling.

SerializedV3Update:

TheV3collectiveupdatemustbescheduledasajob(viaLBWE).Here,documentdataiscollectedinthe
orderitwascreatedandtransferredintotheBWasabatchjob.Thetransfersequencemaynotbethesameas
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theorderinwhichthedatawascreatedinallscenarios.V3updateonlyprocessestheupdatedatathatis
successfullyprocessedwiththeV2update.
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