Overview

Use the Extract from BW wizard in SAS Management Console to extract SAP BW metadata to SAS data sets and to specify the metadata that you want to extract from your SAP BW System. For example, you can extract metadata for a specific InfoCube or ODS object, or you can extract metadata for all InfoCubes and ODS objects in your SAP BW System. If you change the structure an ODS object or InfoCube or reorganize the InfoAreas in your SAP BW System, you should update the extracted metadata.
You must extract the SAP BW metadata to SAS data sets before you can use the SAP BW Register Tables wizard. After you have extracted your SAP BW metadata, you can perform the following tasks:
  • Browse and view the SAP BW data sources.
  • Select which data sources that you want to use in SAS Data Integration Studio.
  • Write metadata about those data sources to your metadata repository.
  • Create jobs that load InfoCube or ODS object data into a SAS library.
For more information about how to perform the metadata extraction, see Extract SAP BW Metadata Using the Extract from BW Wizard.