Character Length restrictions in BW

Dear BW Experts,
We are getting data from an external source. We have a field whose length is more than 60. I am unable to bring this field in to BW since BW has the restriction of not more than 60 character length. I cannot split the field since it is like a comment field.
Could you tell me if there are other ways of getting such data in to BW where the length is more than 60 say like 500 or 1000 in length.
Thanks,
Sai

Hi Sai,
As we all know maximum length of info object is 60.The only way to get the data more than 60 is create another info object and add this as attributes to the base info object and make this attributes as display attributes.
check the below blog, you have clear explanation
/people/sap.user72/blog/2006/05/27/long-texts-in-sap-bw-modeling
Regards,
Venkatesh

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