Use of BW Extractors from SAP R/3 to a non-BW System

Hi,
We have an internally developed data warehouse. We need to extract master and transactional date from SAP R/3 to WebMethods, which will then send it to the data warehouse. Some will be full extractions, others will be delta only.
I am looking at my various options:
- Custom extract ABAP program to create either flat files or Idocs
- Oracle program based on oracle database triggers
- **** BW Extractors - My question - Can I use BW Extractors to create an Idoc or a flat file that will NOT go to a BW system? Sorry, I have no BW experience, but have been looking at RSA6, RSA3, RSO2, LBWE.
Anyone have documentation showing this?
Thanks,
Robin

Hi Robin,
The answer is NO. They are built primarily for BW. It simply wont work for other programs. A single mismatch in extraction logs between R/3 and BW causes unwanted ABAP Dumps.
You must device another way to harvest data out of R/3. I suggest you use Change Pointer mechanism in R/3. It is able to generate various IDOCS (Master Data and Transactional).
In the course of our R/3 implementation before, it is not an instant switch over to R/3. We need to keep our existing legacy systems up and running although the Master Data/Transaction maintenance are already in R/3 until all our branches have been converted to SAP. Change Pointers and IDOCS helped us achieve that...I think that setup is similar to yours...
If helpful, pls grant points...
Regards,
Jkyle

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