Use this page to display
a tree view of data models that you pre-extracted from the SAP R/3
system. The SAP_DM SAP data model is at the top of the tree view,
and the subordinate data models branch from it. End nodes on the tree
view are entities. Each entity type can contain one or more tables.
You can use this page to browse through a structured data model view
of your SAP R/3 tables to identify tables that contain the source
data that you want to use in SAS Data Integration Studio.
The page contains these
items.
SAP Data Model Explorer
displays a hierarchical
view of the data models in the R/3 system. To select a table, highlight
the table that you want in the
SAP Data Model Explorer list
and click

to move it to the
Selected SAP Tables list.
Click

to move all tables. You can also use the Shift and
Ctrl keys to select multiple tables.
Selected SAP Tables
lists all tables that
you selected from the
SAP Data Model Explorer list.
To remove a table from the
Selected SAP Tables list,
select the table in the
Selected SAP Tables list
and click

. Click

to remove all selected tables.
The page contains these
buttons.
Find Text
displays the
Search for String dialog
box. You can use this dialog box to specify a text string for which
you want to search and search all tables in the
SAP Data
Model Explorer list for that text string. If the search
string is found, the first table containing that string is highlighted
in the
SAP Data Model Explorer list.
Find Text Again
searches for the next
occurrence of the search string that you specified when you clicked Find
Text. If the search string is found in any of the tables
in the SAP Data Model Explorer list, the
next table that contains the text is highlighted. This button is disabled
until you specify a search string in the dialog box.
Display Table Metadata
displays the
Displaying Metadata for SAP R/3
Table dialog box. You can this dialog box to view metadata
for a table that you selected in the
SAP R/3 Data Model
Explorer page. Table metadata includes such information
as the field name, field text, and the field format.
Expand
expands all subnodes
in either the SAP Data Model Explorer list
or the Selected SAP Tables list.
Collapse
collapses all subnodes
in either the SAP Data Model Explorer list
or the Selected SAP Tables list.