Hi All
So the RDM for S4Hana came out yesterday, as of writing this. Our company is in the beginning phases of a data migration project for a new Implementation. We obviously want to leverage these files, and it is left to me to install them on a BODS system.
I will explain where I am up to so far. Questions will be in bold, as I go through the explanation.
System landscape is:
OS: Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard 64 bit
DB: SQL Anywhere 12x
I have downloaded both the documentation ZIP and the ATL+TEMPLATE ZIP file.
The documentation has a word document called DM_LE_Deployment_Guide, but this is only for the LE deployment model. For the SME deployment model this guide then references a quick guide. But no quick guide has come bundled with the S4Hana RDM files. So I have made my best effort with the existing quick guide that came with the RDM for ERP and CRM. Following the ERP instructions as my main frame of reference as it should be the most similar. If this quick guide is not suitable for S4HANA because something fundamental is different, please let me know. Or direct me to the real Quick guide.
Working through the quick guide I already had a bods system installed at 4.2 SP6, so I only performed the database creation steps, and a fresh repository, then skipped to the ATL files. I imported all the ATLs without issue and got to the point where I change the datastore configurations.
At this point I had a look through the JOB_DM_Lookups_Initialise, to see what it would be doing and noticed that the Script file SCR_Initialise does not cater for SQL Anywhere. I am not against including my own IF block in this script file, but I wonder whether SQL Anywhere is left out on purpose, do I need to get SQL Server 2008 or similar installed, or will SQL anywhere be supported? I did notice that Sybase is catered for, but I am not sure whether Sybase covers SQL Anywhere as the datastore creation method has a separate entry for the two.
How important is it to name the DB exactly as the document states.
How important is it to have the user name and passwords setup exactly as the document states.
Final question is whether the Initialise job actually creates both the template tables and the fixed tables across all 4 staging databases?
Thank you for your time in advance.