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Since the loading process has to be initiated by the SAP BI system, we have to create a batch file for the

execution of the Job in Data Services. This batch file can subsequently be called by an InfoPackage in
the SAP BI system.
Open the Data Services Management Console by choosing the corresponding menu entry from
theTools menu.

Log in with your user credentials. In the Management Console navigate to the Administrator, and open
your repository (or All Repositories) of the Batch folder.

Switch to the Batch Job Configuration tab strip and find your Job you want to schedule. Choose the
option Export Execution Command.

Provide a File Name for the batch file. Leave the other settings on the default values and press
theExport button.
Note
Since the maximum length of the file name entry field in the InfoPackage is limited to 44 characters, your
file name entered must not exceed 40 characters (44 characters minus 4 characters for the
extension .bat)

Screen would refresh confirming the successful export.

In our case following two files gets created after the export under C:\temp folder.

Before you switch to the SAP BI system, check that the RFC server is still running.
Switch to the SAP BI system you want to load the data to. Open the Data Warehousing Workbench
and find your InfoSource / DataSource. Create an InfoPackage for the DataSource.

Switch to the 3rd Party Selection tabstrip. Press the Refresh Sel. Fields button to display the input fields.

Enter the File Name that you have provided in the creation of the batch file.

Switch to the Processing tab strip. Select Only PSA for updating the data to. Hit Save.

Switch to Schedule tab strip. Ensure Start Data Load Immediately is selected. Hit Start. It start executing
the job designed in the Data Services using the batch file.

A message Data was requested would appear on completion of the job.


Click on Monitor (press F6) to check the status of the load.

Following screen shows you the status of the load.


To check whether your data has been transferred as expected, you can check the PSA for the load. From
the monitor, you can choose the icon PSA Maintenance (Ctrl+F6) in the monitor to jump to the PSA
display.

Click Continue.
Following screen shows the data loaded into the PSA. In our example we transferred the records, which
passed all our Data Quality measures, i.e. all records which Country equal to either IN or US. In total
there are 3 records.

Records not satisfying the validation criteria i.e. records with countries other than IN or US are stored
the template table as desired.
Screenshot below shows the failing records stored in the Oracle XE schema.

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