Remodeling on DSO

Posted by Sriman Kanchukommala in sriman.kanchukommala on Jul 11, 2011 9:15:18 AM inShare Remodeling on DSO Remodeling Overview Remodeling on DSO is a new feature available from BI 7.3 which enables to change the structure of a DSO already loaded. Note: Now this feature is supporting for DSO in BI 7.3 and not supported for Info objects. Using remodeling a characteristic can be simply deleted or added/replaced with a constant value, value of another Info Object, with value of an attribute of another Info Object. Similarly a Key Figure can be deleted, replaced with a constant value or a new Key Figure can be added. This blog describes how to add a new characteristic to DSO using the remodeling feature and populating data for added Characteristic. Note following before you start remodeling process:

Back-up of existing data. During remodeling process DSO is locked for any changes or data loads so make sure you finished all the data loads for this DSO till the time this process finishes. Note following after you finish remodeling process and start daily loads and querying this DSO:

All the objects dependent on DSO like transformations, Multi Providers will have to be re-activated.

Adjust queries based on this DSO to accommodate the changes made.

If new field was added using remodeling than dont forget to map it in the transformation rules for future data loads. Initial Structure of DSO

Start the remodeling toolbox. This can be done either via Transaction Code: RSMRT or from the DSO context menu.