SAP ABAP Data Element RSDS_USED (Currently Used)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_BW (Software Component) SAP Business Warehouse
   ⤷ BW-WHM-DST (Application Component) Data Staging
     ⤷ RSDS (Package) Apollo DataSource
Basic Data
Data Element RSDS_USED
Short Description Currently Used  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type RS_BOOL    
Data Type CHAR   Character String 
Length 1    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 1    
Value Table      
Further Characteristics
Search Help: Name    
Search Help: Parameters    
Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 6 Use 
Medium 9 Use 
Long 20 Using During Load 
Heading 6 Use 
Documentation

Definition

The access method selected or used here is used to load the data.

Definition

Type of access to the data in a DataSource: Adapter or data format parser.

Use

  • Adapter: This handles the actual data access. There are two different types of adapter:
    • Generic adapter: This loads data into a table of strings (character strings of any length) without converting it. The data needs to be converted before it can be saved in BW.
    • Generating adapter: This loads data straight into the application structure, that is, the structure in which data is stored in the PSA.
  • Data format parser: This handles the conversion of data from the original format into a structure in which it can be stored in BW.

Dependencies

  • No additional conversion is required with generating adapters. Therefore the conversion tab page is not always displayed, depending on the adapter you have chosen.
  • Some adapters do not support access to multi-segment data. These adapters are not available with multi-segment DataSources.

Example

Data format (parser): CSV and ASCII

After extraction, CSV files and ASCII files are in the format of a string. However, an additional conversion is required for CSV files. Both types of file can use the same generic adapter to load data.

Use

Dependencies

Example

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20130604 
SAP Release Created in 400