Reading Long Texts in BW

Hi,
I would like to dump the contents of R/3 in a table in BW. One of the fields in this proposed BW table is going to be of more than 1500 characters length. I cannot use ODS because we can only include InfoObjects of maximum 60 Chars in lenght. Other than Eugene's blog, I could not find much in the forum. It might take lot of effort for more than 1500 characters
My proposal:
1) Create a Function Module (may be an RFC enabled Function module) within BW that will connect to R/3 and pull the data. And then dump it into the table.
<b>Is it correct? If so, how do we do it?</b>
<b>Are there any other possible ways?</b>

Hi
This is very simple. Write an ABAP code in R/3 using call function READ_TEXT which reads the standard text (SO10 - tcode) and return the values, then again call the GUI_DOWNLOAD function to download the text file to your local drive. You can also use the STXH table to get the parameters like TDNAME, OBJNM, ID, LANG etc. for the function module in your program
Execute the program.
Once you got the file in your local drive follow the procedure in the BW side
Go to the specific InfoObject, in general tab check the box for "Char is document attribute" Save + Check + Activate the IO.
Then write an ABAP program (copy the code from this link) in BW save & activate the program after editing according to your need.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/8046aa90-0201-0010-5e99-962948c83331
In this pdf document you can find a program in the last few pages and there would be two different codes, one for retreiving data from .pdf (pdf file) and another code for retreiving data from .DOC
Go to RSA1 -> Documents -> Enter characteristic name
then refresh the DOCUMENT page and double click on the characteristic. And now you can see the text file uploaded into BW and this can be used in the BEx report as well.
Let me know if you still have any doubts or if you get stuck anywhere in the above mentioned procedure.
PS - You dont want to change the length more than 60 chars in the maintenance of the infoobject even if it is possible.
~ Vaishnav

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