Reporting Request ID from ODS

Question

Unless I am being particularly stupid I cannot see "Request Id" as a characteristic/key field/data field when building a BeX query against an ODS. Is there a solution?
I often use this characteristic in infocubes to track when particular data was loaded into the cube and need to do this against a (very large) ODS.

Answer 1

Here is a little function module I wrote to find the statuses of data in a ODS/cube and then report back
It is used in R3 to decide which timestamp to use for a real time function module (but that's another story)
it's prototype big hammer approach code - so apologise for select *'s (and I couldn't be bothered to tidy it up)
TABLES:
    rsmdatastate,
    rsreqicods.
CLEAR:
    e_sidtechok,
    e_sidqualok,
    e_sidrollup,
    e_siduppdmt,
    e_sidofodsa.
get infocube status
SELECT   SINGLE *
  FROM   rsmdatastate
  WHERE  infocube  = I_INFOCUBE.
    e_sidtechok    = RSMDATASTATE-TECHOK.
    e_sidqualok    = RSMDATASTATE-QUALOK.
    e_sidrollup    = RSMDATASTATE-ROLLUP.
    e_siduppdmt    = RSMDATASTATE-DMEXIST.
get the requests from the ODS
to get the sid of when it was activated
this can then be checked against the Data mart status
SELECT    *
  FROM    rsreqicods
  WHERE   tabname   = I_INFOCUBE
  AND     rnsidlast = e_sidqualok.
     e_sidofodsa  = RSREQICODS-ODSSID.
ENDSELECT.
if w_sidofodsa equals w_siduppdmt
then the ODS has pushed up the data mart for the last req in the ODS
ENDFUNCTION.