Switching Options for SAP UDS Instance

Hi All,
I have a scenario where in I need to read data records from an Excel file to MII. I have uploaded the excel sheet from end user onto the UDS File Server system and configured a data source/UDC to read the data from the file. Using OLEDB connectivity, i can successfully read the data from the files easily.
However, we need a flexibility to change/load new files on daily basis(every 24 hours) to the server. Since we have the UDS instance with a status 'ON' all the times, we are unable to change the file on the File server as the instance is pointing to the file at all times. We need to manually stop the UDS instance and then upload the file, and again switch on the UDS instance for MII connectivity. The requirement is to programatically turn on/off the UDS instance created for Excel Connectivity to make the process automated.
Can you help me with some documents/ideas on this ??
Thanks And Regards,
Amit

Personally I would rethink the whole design strategy concerning user provided Excel files. This sounds like a manufacturing business process that would benefit from a relational database that is intended for concurrent client activities.

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Indeed, BODS <> SAP connectivity can be tricky.
For a development environment, I suggest you select the option "Generate and execute" for your "ABAP Execution Option." What this means is that DS will create, on the fly, small-ish ABAP programs. These ABAP programs will be written, in plain text, to a local directory on the DS job server, in the folder specified in "Generated ABAP Directory". You can see them in there after an attempted job execution, assuming the job involves the creation of an ABAP program. The ABAP program name is specified in the properties of an ABAP data flow, under Options > ABAP Program Name. If you can't, perhaps the DS job server process doesn't have full rights to that folder - ? After being generated on-the-fly, they'll be transferred to SAP to execute. The SAP user you use to connect to SAP must have sufficient rights to upload-and-execute these ABAP programs, and that's a fairly substantial set of rights. What's required is documented in the BODS supplement for SAP. Often, to get things running, your friendly local Basis admin will grant SAP_ALL to the DS user, to see what rights are being invoked.
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