Thursday 9 September 2010

Easy overview of Multiprovider assignment/identification

When creating/maintaining a multiprovider, consisting of several dataproviders, it's hard to get an overview of the 'linking' of every multiprovider-'field' to it's dataprovider(s)-field.
The SAP BW GUI doesn't deliver the desired overview in one glance....you have to click on every individual field to see the way it's linked.

By looking at the content (SE16) of table RSDICMULTIIOBJ, the multiprovider-linking will be shown as stated in the screengrab below:

Thursday 2 September 2010

Easy overview of (the runtime of) Process Chains

When you're interested in the runtime of several process chains (eg. during last night), transaction codes RSPC, RSPC1 or RSPCM don't do the trick completely.
Luckily there's a workaround via transaction code SA38,
report name /SSA/BWT
Execute the program, check radiobutton Process Chain Analysis and press F8.

In the following screen press F5 (=button Process Chains)

After pressing F5, a pop-up will be displayed in which you can enter the desired selection criteria

After pressing F8, the following result will be shown: