SAP BW Basic Tab

 

Field

Description

Application Server

Name of the machine hosting SAP BW or the host machine’s IP address. For load-balanced configurations of SAP BW, leave this property empty.

SAP Router String

Routing entry. If an SAP Router is used to connect to the Application Server, enter its routing entry here. For example: /H/saprouter/H/194.117.106.130/S/3297/H/

System Number

Two-digit gateway service number of the SAP BW system.

Client

Three-digit client number of the SAP BW system.

User and Password

Valid user name and password to SAP BW.

Save Password check box

This option works in combination with the Pass-through Login option. By default, this option is disabled and un-editable. It becomes editable when you select the Pass-through Login option.

If you accept the default, the password is saved and the Pass-through Login option remains disabled. Then, you can perform the following operations without having to supply the password again:

• Introspect the current data source.
• Reintrospect the data source.
• Add/Remove data source resources.
• Perform query/update/insert operations on a table in the data source.
• Invoke a stored procedure.

Refresh a cached view based on the data source resources.

Pass-through Login

Works in combination with the Save Password option. By default, this mode is Disabled and the password is saved. This mode is referred to as non-pass-through mode. Refer to the details given for the Save Password option. If you select the Enabled option, the Save Password option becomes editable. This mode is referred to as pass-through mode.

The operations you can and cannot perform in pass-through mode depend on if Save Password is checked as follows:

Save password?

Operations you can perform

Operations you cannot perform

Yes

Introspection. You do not have to resupply the password.

N/A

No
• Query/update/insert/delete operations. You need to resupply the original login credentials for the current session.
• Reintrospection, Add/Remove data source resources. You will be prompted to resupply the password that was used when the data source was originally introspected.

Schedule reintrospection.