Introduction

IBM® InfoSphere® Information Server Pack for SAP Applications enables you to extract data from SAP applications, and enrich the extracted data by mapping, aggregating, and reformatting it for use in other applications.

IBM InfoSphere Information Server Pack for SAP Applications provides common facilities to manage connection configurations for SAP systems.

IBM InfoSphere Information Server Pack for SAP Applications includes the following stages:
  • BAPI: The BAPI stage exchanges data with SAP systems by using the SAP Business Application Programming Interfaces (BAPIs).
  • IDoc (intermediate documents): The IDoc Load and Extract Connector stages use the IDoc (intermediate document) interface to load or extract SAP data.
  • ABAP: The ABAP Extract stage allows direct data extraction from internal SAP tables by running a generated ABAP program directly on the SAP system.
  • Delta Extract: Allows you to extract data from SAP application systems by using SAP Datasource. Available from Pack for SAP Applications version 8.0.0.0.
  • OData: Enables you to extract data from SAP systems (on-prem and cloud) by using the SAP exposed OData services. Available from Pack for SAP Applications version 8.2.0.0

This article publishes a Starter Kit which includes sample jobs for all stages. See paper 0956477.

Notes:
  • For a list of environment variables to use for configuring the stages, see 1424455.
  • Although the Pack supports IPv6 addresses for regular SAP connections, it only supports IPv4 for load-balanced (message server) SAP connections. For information see 1570920.
  • Some of the configuration parameters only support ASCII characters. For information see 1568493.
  • For information about stages behavior in Parallel environment, see 1497855.
  • For information about extracting non-Unicode data, see 1392917.
  • CPI-C is no longer supported as a data transfer method for ABAP as of version 7.0. You can use the CPI-C to RFC migration tool to migrate ABAP jobs that were previously configured to use the CPI-C data transfer method. For information about tool details, see 1691167.