Loading Flat Files

Hi,
Iam trying to load flat files into BW. Does any one have a procedure for it. Iam also trying to figure out if we can automate the process if yes please give detail information about it. I would really appreciate if any one could answer to this.
Thanks,
Suneel

Hi,
If you have Unix authorizations on the app server you can do it yourself. You can create folders by a command called mkdir (not sure if this is the correct syntax). Its simple Unix code.Make sure that the id that is going to execute the job has read, write and execute authorization to these folders. You can take help of a Unix SA or Basis person for this.
On the BW side, in teh flat file infopackage, you need to give this path for loading the file and then schedule the job as you do the other BW jobs.
For extractions, you can put the destination path in whatever you are using for extraction, ex ABAP extracts, etc.
For incoming and outgoing files, you can use SYNCRA or EFUSE or any other mechanism that is used to FTP files to get files into your app server or extract out files to downstream systems. You can again take the help of your Unix /BASIS people here.
Cheers,
Kedar

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