Virtual provider scenario's

Hi All,
Please share your valuable experience about virtual cube creation. share some real scenario's when we go for virtual cube creation in SAP BI.
Regards,
Om Ambulker

Hi,
Basically Virtual Providers are used,
1) When you have very infrequent reporting requirement and you don't want to store your data in BI system.
2) When the report consumers are very less and they need most updated data for reporting.
3) When you want to use Non sap data for reporting and don't want to store data in BI.
Regards,
Durgesh.

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Use of 0REFPER in multiprovider reporting with virtual provider in BCS

Hi all,
We're using the multiprovider reporting option in BCS 6.0 / BI7.
As you may know the data in the 'closed periods' provider is populated with closed requests, which need not necessarily be for individual periods (this is different to BCS 4/BW3.5)
As far as I understand from my discussion with the BI team, in the 'closed periods' provider each reference period is populated with ALL data for the year (so a January record appears in 0refper = 01,2008 and also 0refper = 02,2008, whereas a February record only appears in 0refper = 02,2008).
Reporting on a specific reference period will provide data relevant to the hierarchies effective at that reference period.
BUT when the virtual provider is taken in to account for March, surely the reference period is now 03,2008 - so how will the multiprovider choose any records from the 'closed periods' cube?
What I'm not sure about is how the BI report should be structured in terms of 0REFPER selection to ensure that the relevant closed period data is selected alongside the virtual provider data.
I haven't found anything in the help documentation, or the SDN forum - has anyone found a useful source of guidance from SAP?
If not, has anyone got experence of this?
(of course, points will be provided for all useful answers).

Thanks Dan,
I would caution about the use of 0refper for the multiprovider scenario.
Have you used the multiprovider scenario? There is good documentation from SAP on how to set it up but nothing on how the queries/reports should be built. When BCS generates the multiprovider and virtual provider, it adds in 0refper (and the others)
It is my understanding that the closed-period records are stored with cons group as opposed to those of the virtual infoprovider where cons group is only included for posting levels 02, 12, 22 and 30.
+ Thus if the organization/cons groups are changed, it could cause reporting issues unless the closed-period infoprovider is repopulated using the new or changed cons groups.+This was my understanding too, but the BI team are telling me it is NOT required in BCS 6 / BI7.
I will investigate further an post my analysis back here.
In the meantime if anyone else has experience of the multiprovider scenario reporting, espcially in BCS 6 / BI7. Then please do post your experiences here.

Virtual Provider on top of a Multiprovider

HI BI Experts,
Can we create a Virtual Provider on top of a Multiprovider?
Please let us know if some one has come across such a requirement or have done this type of scenario?
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
Bala

hi,
multiprovider contains logical data, and same as virtual info provider as well. in the info provider screen if u go and try to create virtual infoprovider, ofcourse you can, you can copy from multiprovider.
plz assign points if helpful
regards
vadlamudi

Virtual provider 0TCT_VC01 - ST03N Gives Dump

Hi,
Have installed BI7.0 Technical contents and have loaded query statistics data using process chain. Everything is working fine except for one scenario.
In one of SAP docs its specified that 0TCT_VC01 is used to take delta statistic records from database view RSDDSTAT_OLAP. When there are no new delta statistics available in this view (i.e, once all data are loaded into basic cube), a dump is seen in ST03N transaction when BI workload for the current day is selected. Dump says "SAPSQL_SQLS_INVALID_CURSOR"
Has anyone faced this issue?
Regards,
Vidhya.A

Hi Chetan,
Thanks for the reply!
Have already done all the steps specified like "activating the direct access". I am able to see the correct values in ST03.
The only problem happens in one scenario where,
Scenarion1 : Load the process chain TCT* to get all report statistics - this gets all delta records from database view and hence no delta record is available for the virtual cube to read and hence we get a dump in st03n transaction.
If a execute a report then new statistics data would be available in Database view and virtual provider can read those. In this case there wouldn't be any dump. My issue is with the first scenario only.
Hope the issue is clear.
Regards,
Vidhya.A

Query on a virtual provider (nearlined) locks indexing

Hi,
We have a few queries that are on the virtual providers. These are nearlined (SAND) data. When a user execute this query, a lock is established in SM12 on the RSDDTREXDIRTABL table with the virtual provider name as the argument. Due to this lock, any SIDs that are part of the virtual provider are not able to index in BWA. Since the queries on the virtual providers are usually long running ones, the indexing waits and finally fails. We plan to increase the wait time settings in the RSDDTREXADMIN table.
Why does a virtual provider query locks the SID? Is it because, the queries simulate a realtime data load from the nearline storage and in the process simulate SID generation (eventhough these SIDs are existing in BW and not yet archived).
Anyone dealt with a similar issue? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Murali

Hello Murali,
I don't think this scenario has been tested much. Please open a customer message so SAP support can analyze the issue.
Regards,
Marc
SAP Customer Solution Adoption (CSA)

Virtual provider

Hi,
My scenario is,I need to load the table(CRMD_ORDERADM_H) data to Virtual Provider at BW side.Please let me know how this can be done.And also tell if anyone can tell me the step by step process.
your help will be appreciated
Regards,
Karthik.

Hi,
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/62/d2e26b696b11d5b2f50050da4c74dc/frameset.htm
Create a FM in R/3 and use this while creating the virtual provider.
Link contains more details go through it.
Regards,
Rik

Use of Virtual Provider

Hi friends,
what is virtual provider? when we use this ? please tell me any instance where we use virtual provider in realtime scenario?.
regards
Milu

Hi Milu,
A Virtual provider is a logical definition of an object which does'nt exist at the data base level.
Virtual provider does'nt have a physical data base table they extract the data innstantly from the source at the query execution time.
A Virtual provider is mostly used when there is little amount of data to extract and this is mainly operational data i.e showcasing real time data very frequently can be made possible with virtual providers.
For ex : You can have a virtual provider to depict the daily sales orders on a hourly basis.
Regards,

Virtual provider with services

Hi experts,
we have the same query on virtual cube(with services) and BW loacal cube.Both local cube and virtual cube contains the same data. But both are showing different query results.
that is virtual provider query is not displaying all the values in master data table.
for example we have 10 brands under one company code, the virtual cube query is only showing 5 among them. I would like to see all the values without any restrictions, so can you please guide me.
when i checked from tcode /listcube it is displaying all the values without any restriction.
Thanks for your time.

Hi Anupama,
My question is if u have same data in the both cubes ( virtal&Basic) u can create querry on u r basic cube only. But this not answer.
R u using same conditions on both cubes. Means In querry designer.
When u r using the virtual cube(with services) it is generally create on function module, this module properly maintainning the complete master data or not? Check it.
Hope this will help
HARI GUPTA

How to create a Virtual provider in BI 7.0?

Hi friends!
I need create a virtualprovider (with SCM source system), but I find the option 'Create Virtual Provider' in the context menu only when the infosource is 3.x
How can I do it in 7.x?
Thanks in advance!
Edited by: SSap on Oct 28, 2009 9:11 PM

1.How can I do it in 7.x?
In BI7, just right click on any infoarea, and choose create 'virtual provider'. For direct access, you choose Virtual Provider with 'direct access'. There's an option to use the old R/3 infosource. What this means is that you can create an infosource with transfer rules and such, and when you create the virtual infoprovider, it will use the structure in the infosource automatically and the flow of data is automatically link R/3 with the transfer rules and the virtual infoprovider. Note that no update rules exist with this kind of setup.
In BI7 you have a more flexible approach in that you can create a transformation to configure the 'transfer logic' of your virtual infoprovideralong with start routine, end routine or any other transformation technique visible with using a transformation rule.
But using BI7 setup, you need to create a sort of 'pseudo' DTP, which doesn't actually do anything, meaning you do not 'execute' it to start a data transfer.
After all is done, you need to right click on the virtual infoprovider and choose 'Activate Direct Access'. If you use Infosource, go to the Infosource tab, and choose the infosource. If you're using BI7 setup, choose the DTP related to the transformation and save it.
a virtual infoprovider with direct access is really slow if you have a lot of records transmitting between the remote function calls.
Hope this helps
Manjula

How build where clause in select statement in FM for Virtual provider

Hi
I looking for example of FM for Virtual provider where I find code how assign to select statement "where" clause value from query variable.
In following code how build t_r_custtype range and how assign value to it.
CODE********************************
TYPE-POOLS: abap.
initialize
CLEAR: e_t_data, e_t_msg.
this is specific to infoprovider VIRTPROV
CHECK i_infoprov = 'VIRTPROV'.
FIELD-SYMBOLS: <l_s_sbook> TYPE sbook,
                 <l_s_data> TYPE ANY.
DATA: l_t_component TYPE abap_compdescr_tab,
        l_t_sbook     TYPE TABLE OF sbook.
initialize
CLEAR e_t_data.
Data selection / only Business Customer
SELECT * FROM sbook
    INTO CORRESPONDING FIELDS OF TABLE l_t_sbook
    WHERE custtype in t_r_custtype.
ENDCODE********************************
Thanks a lot
Adam

Hello,
Would you like fill the ranges in Customer exit for BEx..?
If Yes. please refer the attachment for the whole code...
"Sample code in Customer Exit in BEx"
IF i_step = 2.
CASE i_vnam.
WHEN 'ZDAY_CX'.
LOOP AT i_t_var_range INTO loc_var_range WHERE vnam = 'ZDAY_IN'.
CLEAR: l_s_range.
ZT_DT1 = loc_var_range-low.
ZT_DT2 = loc_var_range-HIGH.
CALL FUNCTION 'DATE_CREATE'
EXPORTING
ANZAHL_JAHRE = 0
ANZAHL_KALTAGE = 0
ANZAHL_MONATE = '-1'
ANZAHL_TAGE = 0
DATUM_EIN = ZT_DT1
DATUM_EIN_ULT = ' '
ULTIMO_SETZEN = ' '
IMPORTING
DATUM_AUS = ZFIDAY .
E_TT =
E_ULTKZ =
CALL FUNCTION 'DATE_CREATE'
EXPORTING
ANZAHL_JAHRE = 0
ANZAHL_KALTAGE = 0
ANZAHL_MONATE = '-1'
ANZAHL_TAGE = 0
DATUM_EIN = ZT_DT2
DATUM_EIN_ULT = ' '
ULTIMO_SETZEN = ' '
IMPORTING
DATUM_AUS = ZLSDAY.
E_TT =
E_ULTKZ =
l_s_range-low = ZFIDAY .
l_s_range-high = ZLSDAY .
l_s_range-sign = 'I'.
l_s_range-opt = 'EQ'.
APPEND l_s_range TO e_t_range.
ENDLOOP.
*****************************************End*************************************
**To get the From date (For Text Variable) as per the user input date interval range**
WHEN 'ZR_S'.
LOOP AT i_t_var_range INTO loc_var_range WHERE vnam = 'ZDAY_IN'.
CLEAR: l_s_range.
ZT_DT1 = loc_var_range-low.
ZT_DT2 = loc_var_range-HIGH.
CALL FUNCTION 'DATE_CREATE'
EXPORTING
ANZAHL_JAHRE = 0
ANZAHL_KALTAGE = 0
ANZAHL_MONATE = 0
ANZAHL_TAGE = 0
DATUM_EIN = ZT_DT1
DATUM_EIN_ULT = ' '
ULTIMO_SETZEN = ' '
IMPORTING
DATUM_AUS = ZFIDAY .
E_TT =
E_ULTKZ =
l_s_range-low0(2) = ZFIDAY6(2).
l_s_range-low+2(1) = '.'.
l_s_range-low3(2) = ZFIDAY4(2).
l_s_range-low+5(1) ='.'.
l_s_range-low6(4) = ZFIDAY0(4).
l_s_range-sign = 'I'.
l_s_range-opt = 'EQ'.
APPEND l_s_range TO e_t_range.
ENDLOOP.
*****************************************End*************************************
Please let me know if any clarification required..
Rinku..

Error while trying to access data from virtual provider - Technical Content

Hi,
I am trying to install the new BI 2004s technical content. I am done with the installation I am trying to display data for the remote cubes delivered i.e. 0TCT_VC11/21 etc. but getting an error:
Error reading the data of InfoProvider 0TCT_VC11
There is still no data source assigned to VirtualProvider 0TCT_VC11
The virtual providers are of type "virtual provider based on DTP" since standard technical content didnt have any DTPs for the VC cubes I tried to create some direct access DTPs based on datasources 0TCT_DS11 but there also getting error:
Source doesnt support direct access
I saw the type for datasource 0TCT_DS11 and its using SAP SAPI and not direct access and couldnt change the type actually the same datasource is also used by cube 0TCT_C11 so changing the type probably wouldnt have been a good idea.
I found the following notes 996735 and implemented its change...but no use...
we are on SP10 and content 7.03 SP2. Can anybody please help??

Hi all,
The above mentioned solution is a good idea but in this context not appropriate as it aims at resolving an issue in the delivered Content Version of 0TCT_VC11.
In your case, you already have 0TCT_VC11 activated and you can not read any data from this VirtualProvider in queries. Right?
In that case, you have to:
1. Check that the entire data flow is active for the InfoProvider (activation should occur for the MYSELF source system): 0TCT_VC11 with InfoSource 0TCT_IS11 with DataSource 0TCT_DS11
2. Activate the direct access for the VirtualProvider (Context menu of 0TCT_VC_11 > Activate Direct Access > Source Syst. for InfoSource3.x > Mark the column with the MYSELF source system and Save).
This corresponds to Installation "Step 5.) Activate direct access for virtual providers" that is mentioned in SAP Note 934848 "Collective note: (FAQ) BI Administration Cockpit".
Best regards,
Rudolf Hennecke
SAP NetWeaver RIG BI

Issue while creating Virtual provider based on HANA Model in SAP BI

Dear Experts,
I try to create a Virtual Provider based on HANA Model. However receive below error "Unable to find SAP HANA information model".
I tried to assign the appropriate package and HANA model while creation of Virtual provider in SAP BI using RSA1 Transaction.
Do I need to enable any services/ settings, so that I can able to use HANA Models in SAP BI?
Do I required any specific authorizations either from BI or HANA side?
Could some one kindly help to resolve this issue.
Thanks,
Khader

Hi Srinivasan,
Thank you for your response.
I have already gone through the content provided via above links.
However I face issue while activating the virutual provider with warning message"Unable to find SAP HANA information model". Due to which I am not able to see any data from Virtual Provider in BW.
Do we need to have any special access/ role in BW or HANA system in order to consume HANA models in BW (Vitual Provider in this case)?
I am trying to consume HANA Models in BW for the first time.
So any more clues can be helpful.
Thanks,
Khader

BI: Virtual Provider for ECC Report with same selection parameters

Dear all,
I have attached screen shot of ECC report selection screen with contain Material, Plant and Dates. As report is bit complex and I need to use just ITAB (internal table) of it for further use in BEx Query and for Dashboard purposes.
Problem: I need to call this report by creating Virtual Provider in BI so that I get data from ECC at runtime as it is shares report so I can't able to save any data in transparent table as report calculated opening balances at runtime.
It is possible for me by using function module i can get itab by submit return and then create Data Source for it ?
As i make copy of FM ZZRSAX_BIW_GET_SIMPLE i cannot use submit there due to OPEN CURSOR mechanism there.
Kindly anyone suggest how it is possible to call report with same selection parameters for creation of virtual provider.
Please mention if i miss any point in explaining problem.
Feel free to ask for any query.
Many thanks.
Hoping for positive and quick responses.

please create 2 reports as given below.-
REPORT ZSZP_00007.
parameters a(5) .
parameters b(5) .
parameters c(5) .
AT SELECTION-SCREEN OUTPUT.
LOOP AT SCREEN.
IF screen-name = 'A' or screen-name = 'B' .
get parameter id 'aaaaaaaaaaa' field a.
get parameter id 'bbbbbbbbbbb' field B.
screen-input = 0.
MODIFY SCREEN.
ENDIF.
ENDLOOP.
start-of-selection.
your logic
REPORT zszp_00005.
PARAMETERS a(5).
PARAMETERS b(5).
START-OF-SELECTION.
SET PARAMETER ID 'aaaaaaaaaaa' FIELD a.
SET PARAMETER ID 'bbbbbbbbbbb' FIELD b.
your logic
SUBMIT zszp_00007 VIA SELECTION-SCREEN.
i hope this approach will solve your problem.
thanks
Swanand

Virtual Provider not getting executed in LISTCUBE

Hi,
Initially, my virtual provider was not transported successfully, but now it is transported after I transported by unlocking my objects in QA system.
But when I execute the Virtual provider in listcube, I am getting the following errors:
Error reading the data of InfoProvider ZIP_RC_01
System error: Syntax error in program SAPLZBW_IP
Error in substep
How to go about solving these issues.
Thanks & Regards.

Hi,
I have just tried to transport the following:
InfoCube
Data Transfer Process: Active Version
DataSource in BW
Communication Structure for Transformation
Transformation
And no program was included in the transport request.
Note: I am trying to execute a Virtual Provider in LISTCUBE T.Code and I am getting this error when I do it.
And I tried to transport with the following options:
The object was locked in a request in BW Qual system and hence we were getting an error when re-transporting. So, we have released the same in BW QUAL and then transported with the options 'Overwrite Objects in Unconfirmed Repairs', 'Import Transport Request Again' and 'Overwrite Originals' when importing the request.
Please advise.

How to assign the source system to the virtual provider

Hi
How to assign the source system to the custom virtual provider with services in BW 3.5 ?
Regards
PWnuk

Hi PWnuk,
Refer this link on how to implement a virtual provider with services.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/4752ec2d-0a01-0010-ecb0-a145cf2e3e92
Hope this helps
Regards
Karthik

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