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Step by Step Guide – How to Copy

Flat File from Other Application

Server to BI and Load through Info

Package

Applies to:

SAP BW 7.x. For more information, visit the EDW Homepage.

Summary

The objective of this Article is to explain step by step guide to copy the flat file from other application server to BI application server and load through info package with all basic settings.

Author: Viral Shah

Company: Tata Consultancy Services

Created on: 25 October 2010

Author Bio

The author has been involved in SAP BW Implementation and Support Services and having more than 3 years of experience and part of many SAP implementation project.

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Table of Contents

Information and Instruction ................................................................................................................................. 3

Step By Step Solution ......................................................................................................................................... 4

Step 1 .............................................................................................................................................................. 4

Step 2 .............................................................................................................................................................. 4

Step 3 .............................................................................................................................................................. 5

Step 4 .............................................................................................................................................................. 6

Step 5 .............................................................................................................................................................. 6

Step 6 .............................................................................................................................................................. 7

Step 7 .............................................................................................................................................................. 7

Step 8 .............................................................................................................................................................. 7

Related Content .................................................................................................................................................. 8

Disclaimer and Liability Notice ............................................................................................................................ 9

Step by Step Guide – How to Copy Flat File from Other Application Server to BI and Load through Info Package

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Information and Instruction

This document will give you step by step guide to copy the flat file from other application server to BI application server and load through info package with all basic settings. As we know, info package is able to load flat file data from BI application server only and not able to extract the data from the file which is lied on different application or server. Following are the important point.

Create the modeling for the flat file data loading and respectively create the data source and info package for that.

Standard function module name is ARCHIVFILE_CLIENT_TO_SERVER to copy flat file from different server to BI. This is the standard program given by SAP.

The file will be copied to BI server with given path and you can see that from AL11.

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Step By Step Solution

Step 1

Go to Se37 and give the function module name “ARCHIVFILE_CLIENT_TO_SERVER”.

Step 2

Then Press F8 or execute the function module.

Enter the function module name “Archivfile_client_to server”

Click on this button or Press F8 to execute the function module.

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Step 3

After execute the function module below screen will appear.

If you want case sensitivity in copying the file, please check this mark.

Path is used to define the path from where you want to copy.

Targetpath is used to define the destination of BI application server where you want to paste the file.

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Step 4

Enter the value below PATH and TARGETPATH please use the target file path from the AL11 T code.

Step 5

Then Press Execute (F8) and your File will copy to BI server.

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Step 6

Now you can see the files in AL11 in BI application server under the given destination.

Step 7

Now file is available at application server of BI. You have to just select the “application server” option for adapter in extraction tab of the info package. Give the path of the file ( press F4 and select AL11 files option and then select the file)

Step 8

After doing this, Click on save button. So that info package is able to load the data from the BI application server. So from above points, you can copy the file in BI sever and extract the data from the BI server using info package.

Here you can see the file is being copied in this path.

In Adapter, you have to select “load text type file from Application Server”. And give the file name.

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For more information, visit the Business Intelligence homepage,

Migration of BI Modeling to 3.x to BI 7.x

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