Errors when trying to extract via UD Connect (BI 7.0)

Question

Hi all,
in a BI 7.0 system I can't select any UD Connect source object on the "Extraction" tab page of the DataSource maitenance screen. If I type the table name (which is "DICTIONARY") into it and then hit the "Proposal" tab page, I get the following error:
Errors occurred during extraction of UD Connect object field-list: UDCADAPTERROR::RSSDK|200|Table: DICTIONARY not found
We had a restart of the system the weekend. Before that, I could easily select from the list of available UD Connect source objects (tables and views from the connected MS SQL Server) and the system showed correctly all fields of that object in the "Proposal" tab page.
I think there is a problem with the JDBC Connector in the J2EE server. How can I check, if the connection between the JDBC Connector and the connected database is working? Unfortunately I have no access to the Visual Administrator for the J2EE engine because I am not from the basis team.
Thanks to any answers in advance!
Best regards,
Philipp

Answer 1

Hi again,
I can precise the problems I have:
I'd like to extract data from a table in a MS SQL Server 2000 database named DICTIONARY. This table has the following columns:
DICTIONARYID (numeric(16,2), Not Null)
LANGUAGECODE (char(2), Not Null)
TYPE (varchar(24), Not Null)
VALUE (numeric(38,0), Not Null)
VALUENAME (varchar(48), Not Null)
DESCRIPTION (varchar(128), Not Null)
attr31 (numeric(16,2), Not Null)
attr32 (numeric(16,2), Not Null)
attr33 (numeric(16,2), Not Null)
attr34 (numeric(16,2), Not Null)
When starting the data extraction in the InfoPackage I get an error in the monitor. Deeper down in the J2EE server logs I get the following exception which is the reason for the error:
Date : 11/21/2006
Time : 8:53:48:452
Message : Exception: Value '30.00' cannot be converted to NUM type at field ATTR31
Severity : Error
Category :
Location : com.sap.ip.bi.sdk.datasource.beans.BI_SDK_Bean
Application : sap.com/com.sap.ip.bi.sdk.datasource.sync
Thread : SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_10
Datasource : 238150750:/usr/sap/DOS/DVEBMGS23/j2ee/cluster/server0/BI_SDK_Trace.log
Message ID : 0014C2658003005E000000C0000041F5000422BD226B24FF
Source Name : com.sap.ip.bi.sdk.datasource.beans.BI_SDK_Bean
Argument Objs :
Arguments :
Dsr Component : DOS
Dsr Transaction : 456273935D18288AE1000000C72A309C
Dsr User : HINNAPHI                       
Indent : 0
Level : 0
Message Code :
Message Type : 0
Relatives :
Resource Bundlename :
Session : 0
Source : com.sap.ip.bi.sdk.datasource.beans.BI_SDK_Bean
ThreadObject : SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_10
Transaction :
User : J2EE_GUEST
Actually there is a record that has 30.00 as value in the attr31 field. I think there are problems with the numeric(16,2) fields. I tried to use different data types in the corresponding fields of the UD Connect data source (e. g. DEC, FLTP) with different length and decimal places settings. But the exception is always the same (see above).
Another issue: I can only specify "Internal" for the format in the data source maintenance. If I use "External" or "Check" the system says: "External format not supported as data type is not 'CURR'".
Do you have any idea why this conversion exception occurs and what I could do about that?
Thanks to any answers in advance!
Regards,
Philipp