Data federator

Hello Experts,
I am just wondering how is Data federator to create Web Intelligence reports on top of SAP BW Infoproviders using Relational universe instead of OLAP universe.
My requirement is that we want to create universes with all the custom objects for calculations in it instead of creating them in bex query or in some in reporting level.
Please advise and also I would appreciate if some can please provide me some links on Data federator.
Thanks.
Rag

Data Federator uses the Data Federator facade to query the BW analytic engine, bypassing the OLAP MDX engine. It transforms the data into relational structures. You can then query these relational tables using a universe and webi.

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Checked in leSelect.log
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Jason Hattrick wrote:
> I am completely new to Data Federator so please bear with me.
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> I have successfully created a new user but I am not able to run the command:
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> GRANT EXECUTE ON PROCEDURE executeUpdateNativeQuery TO user1
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> as I get the following error: Incorrect procedure name: 'executeUpdateNativeQuery' (Error code: 10000)
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> I am following page 482 of the Data Federator User Guide.
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> Thanks!
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There is a typo in the documentation, the name of the procedure is:
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Hi Amit,
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You might have better luck asking this question in the (somewhat misnamed) [Data Integration and Data Quality Management|Data Services and Data Quality; forum:
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Hi,
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