Maintaining Control Parameters for Data Transfer in BI

Procedure

Maintain entries for the following fields:

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1. Source system

Enter the logical system for your source client and assign a control parameter to it.

For information about source clients, see the source system under Tools ® Administration ® Management ® Client Management ® Client Maintenance.

2. Maximum size of the data package

When you transfer data into BI, the individual data records are sent to BI in packages of variable size. You use this parameter to control the typical size of a data package of this type.

If you do not maintain an entry, the data is transferred with the default setting of 10,000 kBytes per data package. However, the required memory depends not only on the data package size setting, but also on the width of the transfer structure, the required memory of the affected extractor, and, for large data packages, the number of data records in the package.

3. Maximum number of rows in a data package

For large data packages, the required memory mainly depends on the number of data records that are transferred with the package. You use this parameter to control the maximum number of data records that you want the data package to contain.

By default, the system transfers a maximum of 100,000 records per data package.

The maximum main memory required per data package is approximately 2 X ’Max. Rows’ X 1000 bytes.

4. Frequency

By specifying a frequency you determine the number of data IDocs after which an info IDoc is to be sent. In other words, how many data IDocs are described by a single info IDoc.

The frequency is set to 1 by default. This means that an info IDoc follows after each data IDoc. You should choose a frequency between 5 and 10, but not greater than 20.

The larger the package size of a data IDoc, the lower you should set the frequency. As a result, you get information about the data load status during the data upload at relatively short intervals.

In the BI monitor, you can see from each info IDoc whether the load process was successful. If this is the case for all data IDocs described in an info IDoc, the traffic light in the monitor is green. Info IDocs contain information about whether the data IDocs were correctly uploaded.

5. Maximum number of parallel processes for the data transfer

An entry in this field is only required as of Release 3.1I.

Enter a value greater than 0. The maximum number of parallel processes is set to 2 by default. The optimal choice of the parameter depends on the configuration of the application server that you are using for the data transfer.

6. Target system of a batch job

Enter the name of the application server on which you want to process the extraction job.

To get the name of the application server, choose Tools ® Administration ® Monitor ® System Monitoring ® Server. The Host column displays the name of the application server.

7. Maximum number of data packages in a delta request

You use this parameter to set the maximum number of data packages in a delta request or in the repeat of a delta request (repair).

Only use this parameter if you are expecting delta requests with a very large volume of data. In this case, you allow more than 1000 data packages to be generated in a request, while retaining an appropriate data package size.

As before, there are no limits for initials values or the value 0. A limit is only applied if you have a value that is greater than 0. However, for consistency reasons this number is not always strictly adhered to. Depending on the extent to which the data in the qRFC queue is compressed, the actual limit can deviate by up to 100 from the specified value.