Has anyone attempted to write a universe over Information Steward 4.0?
Unable to locate a data model (ERD) in the SAP doco.
From a Data Insight perspective, I am interested in reporting on how many rules exist, what thresholds are (and history), and failed results.
From a Metadata Management perspective, I am interested in reporting on custom attributes (the search in MM does not search across all instances of custom attributes), relationships between technical and business metadata (Metapedia terms).
Has anyone attempted to write a universe over the database schemas (preferably Oracle) for custom reporting? Or have a model of how the tables relate to each other?
I was given a universe provided by SAP. You can probably find the document by searching SAP for “Using Metadata Management Metapedia Glossary with WebI.” However, it’s not very useful. It shows only relationships between objects and reports, and between objects and business terms. I am being asked to extend this universe, or create something new using the same connection. However, there are thousands of tables within the schema, and since I’m not an Information Steward expert it’s a bit difficult for me to figure out where to start.
If anyone has done some work in this area, I would be interested in sharing notes.
I contacted sap about this and from IS 4.2 sp2 there appears to be a universe that will be provided. I could not wait so I spent about 2 weeks and figured a lot of it out. There are some things though that I still am looking for, like relationships between some technical objects that appear in MM.
There are a number of custom views that could be a good start. Look at mmb, mmv and mmrv views. The limited info in the dodo may help but if you can look at data while in the application then you can find a lot intuitively.
I have been focusing on the “MM” views, but there are still hundreds and hundreds of them. Would you be able to list a few of the specific ones you have found useful?
I have some documentation from Business Objects on some data model diagrams. They are from XIR2 but they appear to still be relevant. I’m not sure that I can share them though.
I have a universe also that I was building. It uses MMD and MMRV views.
It’s not very relevant to me right now as we just upgraded to BI4.1 and I’m still trying to get the Metadata Management portion of Information Steward up and running.
I keep meaning to post here but haven’t had time to. Basically what I have found so far is the database behind Information Steward is very flexible and as a result quite complex. There are tables that are used for nothing other than to store the information about relationships between other tables. To put anything together, you need a “source” and “destination” table ID, and they need to be in the right order. There are also recursive relationships (parent to child records, meaning a category can have a parent category) that are easy to deal with in Oracle (via the CONNECT BY structure) but can be more difficult on other platforms.
We’re building some scorecards now, but performance is a challenge.
This is the best Query so far. Still no Binding fields showing up.
select distinct
t5.technical_name as Project_name
,t1.business_name as Rule_name
,t2.value as Quality_dimension
,t4.technical_name as Table_name
,t1.effective_dt as Rule_created_Date
,t6.business_name as Domain_name
,t7.*
from MMD_Rule t1
join MMD_Custom_Field_Value t2 on t1.rule_id = t2.[object_id] and t2.is_current_version = ‘Y’
join MMD_Relationship t3 on t1.rule_id = t3.[object_id] and user_flag1 is null and t3.relationship_subtype_cd in ( ‘PRRB’ ) and t3.is_current_version = ‘Y’
join MMD_Data_Group t5 on t5.data_group_id = t3.container_id and t5.is_current_version = ‘Y’
join MMD_Data_Group t4 on t4.data_group_id = t3.related_object_id and t4.is_current_version = ‘Y’
left join MMD_Key_Data_Domain t6 on t6.key_data_domain_id = t3.[object_id] and t6.configuration_id = t3.configuration_id
left join MMD_Key_Data_Domain_Score t7 on t6.key_data_domain_id= t7.key_data_domain_id
where t1.is_current_version = ‘Y’
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