Defining connections to SAP BW with InfoSphere DataStage Administrator for SAP utility

The IBM® InfoSphere® DataStage® Administrator for SAP utility is a dialog-based application program that runs on the InfoSphere DataStage client. The utility also contains the InfoSphere DataStage Connections to BW, InfoSphere DataStage Connections to SAP and the IDoc Cleanup and Archiving pages. The pages you see depend on which stages you install.

The InfoSphere DataStage Connections to BW page is described in the following sections. For details about the DataStage Connections to SAP page and the IDoc Cleanup and Archiving page, see the section InfoSphere DataStage Administrator for SAP Utility.

This utility is shared by other stages that work with SAP databases. The user interface for the utility automatically adjusts itself to accommodate whatever SAP-related stages are installed. (For example, the windows show the controls as if the SAP BW and IDoc Extract stages are installed.)

The utility is useful because of the GUI feature to view logs generated by the SAP BW Load RFC Servers.

You might need to view an RFC log while selecting a source system for a new stage. For the new log-viewing feature to be useful, it needs to be accessible from outside the stage editor. You can use the RFC Server Monitor dialog, or the utility to manage configurations of SAP BW connections and source systems outside the context of editing a job. The utility lets you see the activity of any configured RFC Server. This can include load statistics and any errors generated by the server.