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    Data Services and Data Quality: SAP BODS -

    Concatenate Custom Function

    Posted by Bernatsha Panneerselvam Dec 8, 2012

    SAP Business Objects Data Services (DS) does not provide the functionality to concatenate multiple
    row entries into a single row, where the number of rows that might appear is undefined.

    Description:

    The Data Services have the functionality to concatenate multiple rows into a single row entry using
    the reverse pivot transform and then concatenating the columns provided that the number of rows
    that need to be concatenated is pre- defined or fixed.

    If the number of rows that might appear which needs to be concatenated is not defined then the
    same functionality can be achieved at the database level through SQL using the XML functions.
    The XML functions XMLAGG and XMLELEMENT are used to concatenate the multiple entry rows
    into a single row. XMLELEMENT will take an element name for identifier and returns an instance
    of XML type. While XMLAGG takes a collection of XML fragments and returns an aggregated XML
    document. E.g.(xmlagg(xmlelement(e,<column_to_be_concat>,',').extract ('//text()')),'<delimiter>')

    Using the XML functions at the database level will affect the performance of the jobs. For millions of
    records to be processed the usage of XML function would consume lot of time and memory space
    which would reduce the performance of the jobs.

    Solution:

    A DS Custom Function can be used to concatenate the multiple rows into a single row even when
    the number of row sets that might appear for a set is not defined.

    Advantages:

    1. 1. The set of rows that must be concatenated need not be defined.


    2. 2. Improved Job performance.
    3. 3. Memory space used for cache will be low.
    4. 4. Easy implementation of the function.

    Input Data:

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    Data Services and Data Quality: SAP BODS - Concatenate Custom Function

    The source table has four columns namely unique_id, name, Text and Note_seq_num. The source
    information has the data set like

    Unique_id Name Text Note_Seq_num


    1 John Hello 1
    1 John World 1
    2 Rob How 2
    2 Rob Are 2
    2 Rob You 2

    Requirement:

    For each of the distinct Unique_id and name we should have only a single entry in the Target table
    and the Text column should be concatenated. The Note_seq_num column is used as reference
    column to identify the set of rows that needs to be concatenated based on the corresponding
    unique_id and Name.

    The sample output should be like

    Unique_id Name Text


    1 John Hello,World
    2 Rob How,Are,You

    Concatenation Custom Function:

    The Custom function uses the column Unique_id (the primary column based on which the row are to
    be concatenated) and the Note_seq_num.

    Pre-Requisites:

    1. 1. The Note_seq_num should be generated for every group of data(if it is not present in
    the data set), which identifies those records which need to be concatenated.
    2. 2. For each unique_id, the note_seq_num should be sorted.
    3. 3. The Global Variables should be created which would be used for the custom function.

    $G_VAR_NOTE_SEQ_NUM and $G_VAR_TEXT – variable will hold the Note_seq_num value


    and concatenated Text column during the time of execution of the custom function

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    Data Services and Data Quality: SAP BODS - Concatenate Custom Function

    Create the Custom Function:

    After the execution of the custom function, the output would be as shown below:

    Unique_id Name Text


    1 John Hello
    1 John Hello,World
    2 Rob How
    2 Rob How,Are
    2 Rob How,Are,You

    Post Custom Function Execution:

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    Data Services and Data Quality: SAP BODS - Concatenate Custom Function

    The resultant output can be obtained by grouping the records based on unique_id and Name and by
    getting the Max of Text column.

    Unique_id Name Text


    1 John Hello,World
    2 Rob How,Are,You

    1268 Views Tags: bods, concatenate, ds_concat

    Dec 10, 2012 11:53 AM SOWMYA MUDDADA

    Good One !

    Jan 30, 2013 9:56 PM Joshua Blythe

    I want to clarify that in order for this to work, you need the input variables assigned as input/
    output.

    This feels like an exploit to me, but a much welcomed one. good find.

    Oct 3, 2013 2:58 PM Ian Wong

    Can this be done in BODS 3.2? If yes, please explain how to implement the Global variable
    in the function. Thanks.

    Oct 4, 2013 1:27 PM Mayank Mehta

    Thanks Bernatsha Panneerselvam,

    That was really helpful .

    Oct 8, 2013 7:13 AM Bernatsha Panneerselvam Ian Wong in response to

    Hi Ian,

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    Data Services and Data Quality: SAP BODS - Concatenate Custom Function

    Yes, this can be done in BODS 3.2.

    The global variable needs to be created at the job level as we do normally. The reason we
    opt for global variable is that, after every custom fuinction call the values might get refreshed
    if its a local variable, but in case of global variable this cant happen and the latest iteration
    value from the custom funtion will only be stored.

    Inititally the global variable will hold the value 'null' only.

    Thanks,

    Bernatsha P

    Oct 28, 2013 8:44 PM Sujith gopagoni

    Hi i am new to bods,can some one explain the above scenario why they have created
    parameter and local variables also thanks in advance.

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