Direct RFC pull from SAP without staging files

Hi,
I am able to use OWB 10.2.0.2 to execute an ABAP report, ftp the generated file and load it into a DW table. This works fine as documented and demoed.
There is a requirement to get comments for a certain report. Comments can be arbitrarily long and can have any delimiter in them. To put them in files can become extremely tedious. Now I do not think that the client should be getting comments in a DW but this is the requirement I have to work with.
What I would like to do is call a SAP functional module and get the result piped into OWB using RFC protocol. This is how many SAP applications that use the RFC protocol get data out of SAP instead of staging it in a file first. OWB uses RFC to connect to SAP as well. And I noticed that there is an execution function module field in the connection explorer. Is this something that can be done through that?
Thanks

Here are a few bits on SAP. For your scenario could you go against the underlying database tables? The default for extracting from SAP is to generate and run ABAP reports.
However, if your source tables are all transparent tables, you can always extract directly from database through PL/SQL. To do that:
1. create an oracle module with proper credential to connect to the databases used by SAP.
2. In the SAP mapping, change the generation language from: ABAP (default) to PL/SQL.
Note, extracting directly from database is not typical in an SAP shop.
1. Data consistency:
SAP application server manages its own transactions, which are different from database transactions.
2. Security:
In the database level, you will see the data belongs to all clients this is not good:)
In each PL/SQL mapping that you created, you need to manually add a filter on MANDT to view the data for a specific client.
3. DATE format handling.
In the database level, date columns are typically stored as VARCHAR(8).
In each PL/SQL mapping that maps some data columns, you need to add
transformation operators on those DATE columns: TO_DATE( column, 'YYYYMMDD')
Cheers
David

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