DS on HANA: other data sources that HANA live views

[Wolfgang_Mayer]

Hello,

we're currently using Design Studio 1.5 SP1 (ver 15.1.2) together with HANA backend (rev 97).

We've been very exited since using a HANA backend finally allows to publish DS reports without having to run a java stack.

However, when using a Netweaver system (e.g. ERP) where it is still necessary to use java stack, you can directly use DDIC views, infosets and queries as datasources.

With HANA backend, you can "only" use HANA live views where you don't have the ABAP and BW features of the netweaver stack. Is there a way to use any other data sources than live views when connected to HANA?

Thanks & regards

Wolfgang

[TammyPowlas · Accepted solution]

Hello Wolfgang,

Are you trying to connect to data sources other than HANA?  It sounds like from the SAP Help, page 9, this is not possible: https://websmp101.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/012002523100014716232015E/ds_15SP02_admin_hana_en.pdf

[Wolfgang_Mayer · Accepted solution]

Hello Tammy,

the chapter states that it is only possible to connect to one (single) HANA system. My question was about adding different data source types on this single HANA system. I don't want to connect to several HANA systems at once.

However, I'm afraid that this is the answer, meaning it doesn't work.

Regards

Wolfgang

[IngoH · Accepted solution]

Hi Wolfgang,

when using HANA as the deployment platform then Design Studio can only connect to the HANA System you used as deployment platform.

One option you can look into is the Smart Data Access from HANA to use that to connect to other sources.

regards

Ingo Hilgefort, Visual BI