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Step by Step Guide How to Copy Flat File from Other Application Server to BI and Load through Info

o Package

Applies to:
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Summary
The objective of this Article is to explain step by step guide to copy the flat file from other application server to BI application server and load through info package with all basic settings. Author: Viral Shah

Company: Tata Consultancy Services Created on: 25 October 2010

Author Bio
The author has been involved in SAP BW Implementation and Support Services and having more than 3 years of experience and part of many SAP implementation project.

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Table of Contents
Information and Instruction ................................................................................................................................. 3 Step By Step Solution ......................................................................................................................................... 4 Step 1 .............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Step 2 .............................................................................................................................................................. 4 Step 3 .............................................................................................................................................................. 5 Step 4 .............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Step 5 .............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Step 6 .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Step 7 .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Step 8 .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 Related Content .................................................................................................................................................. 8 Disclaimer and Liability Notice ............................................................................................................................ 9

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Information and Instruction


This document will give you step by step guide to copy the flat file from other application server to BI application server and load through info package with all basic settings. As we know, info package is able to load flat file data from BI application server only and not able to extract the data from the file which is lied on different application or server. Following are the important point. Create the modeling for the flat file data loading and respectively create the data source and info package for that. Standard function module name is ARCHIVFILE_CLIENT_TO_SERVER to copy flat file from different server to BI. This is the standard program given by SAP. The file will be copied to BI server with given path and you can see that from AL11.

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Step By Step Solution


Step 1 Go to Se37 and give the function module name ARCHIVFILE_CLIENT_TO_SERVER.

Enter the function module name Archivfile_client_to server Step 2 Then Press F8 or execute the function module.

Click on this button or Press F8 to execute the function module.

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Step 3 After execute the function module below screen will appear.

If you want case sensitivity in copying the file, please check this mark. Path is used to define the path from where you want to copy. Targetpath is used to define the destination of BI application server where you want to paste the file.

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Step 4 Enter the value below PATH and TARGETPATH please use the target file path from the AL11 T code.

Step 5 Then Press Execute (F8) and your File will copy to BI server.

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Step 6 Now you can see the files in AL11 in BI application server under the given destination. Here you can see the file is being copied in this path.

Step 7 Now file is available at application server of BI. You have to just select the application server option for adapter in extraction tab of the info package. Give the path of the file ( press F4 and select AL11 files option and then select the file)

In Adapter, you have to select load text type file from Application Server. And give the file name.

Step 8 After doing this, Click on save button. So that info package is able to load the data from the BI application server. So from above points, you can copy the file in BI sever and extract the data from the BI server using info package.

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For more information, visit the Business Intelligence homepage, Migration of BI Modeling to 3.x to BI 7.x For more information, visit the EDW Homepage

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Disclaimer and Liability Notice


This document may discuss sample coding or other information that does not include SAP official interfaces and therefore is not supported by SAP. Changes made based on this information are not supported and can be overwritten during an upgrade. SAP will not be held liable for any damages caused by using or misusing the information, code or methods suggested in this document, and anyone using these methods does so at his/her own risk. SAP offers no guarantees and assumes no responsibility or liability of any type with respect to the content of this technical article or code sample, including any liability resulting from incompatibility between the content within this document and the materials and services offered by SAP. You agree that you will not hold, or seek to hold, SAP responsible or liable with respect to the content of this document.

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