Parsing PROMPT values to custom SSIS package

Question

Hi,
I need to extract data from our customers ERP system. I have created a SSIS package doing this. I'm using two SSIS variables 'STARTDATE' and 'ENDDATE' to specify the range in transactions I want to extract. I have tested the SSIS package with the variables pre-filled (in SSIS) from SAP BPC 7.5 and the package is working as expected.
Now i want to change the pre-filled values with values from my PROMPTs in my BPC package. I have created two PROMPTs called BEGIN and END. I have tried to parse the values in different ways, but havn't found the solution. Can anyone guide me in the right direction?
Here the script on my BPC package:
DEBUG(ON)
GLOBAL(STARTDATE,%BEGIN%)
GLOBAL(ENDDATE,%END%)
PROMPT(TEXT,%BEGIN%,"Enter start date:",,"")
PROMPT(TEXT,%END%,"Enter end date:",,"")
INFO(%TEMPFILE%,%TEMPPATH%%RANDOMFILE%)
TASK(CONVERT data,INPUTFILE,%FILE%)
TASK(CONVERT data,OUTPUTFILE,%TEMPFILE%)
TASK(CONVERT data,CONVERSIONFILE,%TRANSFORMATION%)
TASK(CONVERT data,STRAPPSET,%APPSET%)
TASK(CONVERT data,STRAPP,%APP%)
TASK(CONVERT data,STRUSERNAME,%USER%)
TASK(LOAD AND PROCESS,APPSET,%APPSET%)
TASK(LOAD AND PROCESS,APP,%APP%)
TASK(LOAD AND PROCESS,USER,%USER%)
TASK(LOAD AND PROCESS,DATATRANSFERMODE,4)
TASK(LOAD AND PROCESS,CLEARDATA,%CLEARDATA%)
TASK(LOAD AND PROCESS,FILE,%TEMPFILE%)
TASK(LOAD AND PROCESS,RUNTHELOGIC,%RUNLOGIC%)
TASK(LOAD AND PROCESS,CHECKLCK,%CHECKLCK%)
Regards,
Lars

Answer 1

This is confusing, I can't understand why you are getting this error, it seems to me that BPC is trying to look for your stored procedure in your APPSET DB (Source Server) . If your connection object, which is defined in the package is pointing to the correct destination server, then it should work, unless you have modified te connection using Dynamic Script (which it appears not to be the case)
You can try to create the stored procedure in the source system, but I suspect you will get the error message "Object not found, etc... ", becuase your source server doesnt know about your database in your query.
You can try add the following dynamic script, which implicitly tells BPC to override the connection object with the settings you have provided.
DEBUG(ON)
INFO(%DBName%,YourSourcedBName)
INFO(%DSTSrv%,YourDestinationServerName/IP)
PROMPT(TEXT,%BEGINDATE%,"Enter start date:",,"")
PROMPT(TEXT,%ENDDATE%,"Enter end date:",,"")
CONNECTION(SQLconn,ConnectionString,Data Source=%DSTSrv%;Provider=SQLNCLI.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Auto Translate=False;)
CONNECTION(SQLconn,InitialCatalog,%DBName%)
CONNECTION(SQLconn,ServerName,%DSTSrv%)
OLEDBCONN(Source - LEDGERTRANS,SqlCommand,"EXEC dbo.AXdata '%BEGINDATE%', '%ENDDATE%'")
OLEDBCONN(Source - LEDGERTRANS,OpenRowSet,"EXEC dbo.AXdata '%BEGINDATE%', '%ENDDATE%'")
Make sure you amend the following
YourSourcedBName - Your Destination Server Database Name (The name of the database where you are extracting data from)
DSTSrv - The destination server ne or IP Address
SQLConn - This is the name of your OLE DB connection object defined in the package. This should be the same connection object in which your OLEDB Source is using..
And try to fully qualify your SQL code, meaning try to put the full path, for example
EXEC DBName.dbo.AXdata '%BEGINDATE%', '%ENDDATE%'"
I hope this helps and resolves your error..
Kind Regards
Daniel