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MarcusZwirner · 07-25-2023

Hi experts, we have the requirement to implement an SAP Data Services (version 4.3) job consuming an external REST web service that uses Kerberos for authentication. The general approach seems to be clear: We need a WADL file defining the endpoi...

MarcusZwirner · 04-13-2022

Hi experts, we want to implement a REST webservice call with Data Services. Unfortunately, the webservice owner does not provide a wadl. And in addition the response of the webservice is not returned “inline” (i.e. not as part of the payl...

MarcusZwirner · 12-18-2020

As often in life there are different ways to achieve an objective. This is also true for our business where often not just one software tool exists to meet the business demands (not only we at SAP can tell a thing or two about it). In my last projec...

MarcusZwirner · 09-26-2019

Hi experts, from time to time we observe a very strange behavior of Data Services. When we start a batch job (it doesn’t matter if the job is started from the Designer or via command line) it happens occasionally that the job seems to be started,...

MarcusZwirner · 03-09-2018

Hello experts, I’m currently involved in data migration project where we want to use the Match Review functionality of Information Steward for the review of business partner duplicates identified by a Data Services job. Since we identified a lo...

MarcusZwirner · 03-06-2024

The history of job runs are stored in the repository table AL_HISTORY.To select the timestamp (start time) of the last successful run of a job you can use the following select statement:SELECT MAX(START_TIME) FROM [$GV_RUNTIME_REPO_NAME].AL_HISTORY W...

MarcusZwirner · 10-05-2023

Hi Kenneth,I struggled with that issue for a long time, too.Finally I found a hint when I installed the BI Platform Support Tool. Under the link https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/BOBJ/Getting+Started+with+the+Windows+client+version#GettingStarted...

MarcusZwirner · 08-09-2023

Hi Joseph, thanks for your reply. You’re right, the supported authorization schemas for REST web services can be found here: Authorization schemas for REST | SAP Help Portal. And unfortunately Kerberos is not supported. But we found a workaround...

MarcusZwirner · 05-06-2022

Hi Ulrike,are you able to run the batch script with your DS user manually (outside of DS) to check, if the setting really applies to your DS user?Best regardsMarcus

MarcusZwirner · 05-05-2022

Hi,in the meantime, I found a solution, i.e. Data Services can handle such a kind of REST webservice.Everything depends on the wadl and the xsd. And if the webservice owner does not provide a wadl, it’s a little bit tricky to create a working one man...

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