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Determining Source Requirements

This task is a step in the Process of Defining Your Installation Configuration.

Some source systems and database platforms require additional steps, as detailed in this section. To install PowerConnect for specific source systems, see the relevant PowerConnect User and Administrator Guide.

NOTE:  This section applies to customers using universal business adapters or SAP R/3.

Using the Universal Business Adapter

For source systems without prepackaged business adapters, you must provide flat file extracts. The flat files must conform to a template (located in the directory $Siebel\ETL\SrcFiles). Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse use the Universal Interface document to process and load the data into the data warehouse.

Using the SAP R/3 Source System

This section describes how to customize your Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse environment for a SAP R/3 source system.

Creating a Profile

The SAP R/3 administrator must create a profile in the R/3 system that allows you to use the integration features. This profile must include authorization for the objects and related activities listed in Table 6.

Generating ABAP Code

If you are extracting from SAP R/3, you must generate the ABAP code from the extract mappings. The mappings used to extract data from SAP R/3 all follow this naming convention, M_S_*_EXTRACT. For the mappings whose names fall into this category, you generate the ABAP codes. For more information on generating the ABAP codes, see the PowerConnect for SAP R/3 User and Administrator Guide.