Calling SAP report from data services RFC

dataservices job design
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Hi,

I would like to know is it possible to call sap report through RFC? If yes can anyone please let me know the procedure?

Thanks,
Raghu.

BODI_USA (BOB member since 2010-11-14)

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A SAP report can do anything. Are you sure you just want to call a batch program in SAP, a report, and not do anything with it? I assume there is more behind that question.

Werner Daehn :de: (BOB member since 2004-12-17)

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Werner,

Thank you very much for your rely. I will be using the output of the SAP report as a source in the ETL job. Could you just tell me in brief how to call the report.

Thanks,
BODI_USA.

BODI_USA (BOB member since 2010-11-14)

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A report prints something to screen or paper. That’s not what you want to do. One why, unless we look into what the report does itself, would be to reqrite the report and write into an internal table we read from instead.
http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/EIM/Custom+ABAP+Transform

But while doing that, you might figure out that your report does a few function calls only and most of the rest of the code is formatting the output, something we don’t need. So maybe there are even better ways by e.g. calling the functions themselves or so.

Werner Daehn :de: (BOB member since 2004-12-17)