CTS and Data Integrator

[dennis_scoville4]

I want to be able to use CTS, perhaps in conjunction with ChaRM on Solution Manager or CTS+, for version/change control of Data Integrator objects that are using Rapid Marts as targers (as opposed to SAP BI targets). Has SAP enabled this capability yet, and if so, can someone point me in the direction of documentation on this? If not, does anyone have any inside scoop on when it might become available?

[werner_daehn · Accepted solution]

Not yet. You can use the Designer and the al_engine to create ATL or XML file and to import them. With that you can build an integration yourself, can't you?

[dennis_scoville4 · Accepted solution]

I'm trying to remove the manual movement of code from the development repository to the QA repository and then another manual intervention to move from the QA repository to the production repository. Furthermore, I want to be able to use tools that we already have on hand and not have to introduce another application (tool) to perform this. Since we're primarily an SAP shop, and therefore have Solution Manager and other applications including SAP BW (really dislike that it was changed back to SAP BW from SAP BI recently), and since SAP now owns Business Objects, I was hopeful that DI has already been integrated with the SAP CTS framework. Is this something that's part of the 2010 changes where SAP BW and Business Objects are morphed more into an integrated set of tools?

[werner_daehn · Accepted solution]

We are currently planning on what's in the 2010 release, this is one of the things considered. Just to make sure it is crystal clear: DS and BW will remain completely separated. Integrated, yes. Combining each products strength to the portfolio, yes. But not "become one".

As said, many people created their own process of moving things from dev to QA to prod automatically. Problem is, you have to build it yourself using batch scripts or whatever instead of being ready to use within the product.

[dennis_scoville4 · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply Werner.