Access AL11 (S4HANA directory ) in SAP Data Intelligence

[abhimanyu_sharma]

hi all,

My requirement is to read files from AL11 directory in SAP data intelligence and then write it to Azure blob storage.

Could you please let me know if there is a possible to access AL11 directory in SAP Data Intelligence.

Best Regards,

Abhimanyu Sharma.

[Lee]

Hi Abhimanyu

Interesting question 🙂 I see what you are trying to achieve. I have not tried from AL11,but will share my thoughts.

So, for Integrating SAP S/4HANA into SAP Data Intelligence, 2 options are possible. There are a lot of documentation available in SAP community blogs.

SAP suggests two options for Replication/Initial Load/delta

1. Using SLT replication for the SAP Tables ( Jobs can be setup so that any number of tables can be replicated real time with just configuration)

2. Replication using the CDS views

In your case, for files transfer from AL11, there is no standard operator in SAP DI at the moment.

The data from those files, can be replicated to DI using any of the above methods, if they are available in tables. Please see the below links where both these are explained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ7Symz5VU8

https://blogs.sap.com/2021/08/19/beginners-guide-how-to-start-with-abap-integration-within-data-inte.../

Another possibility is through a BAPI/ FM and integrated to SAP DI with a custom ABAP operator.

https://blogs.sap.com/2021/06/01/integrating-abap-function-modules-with-sap-data-intelligence/

Hope this helps,

Regards

Leena