Extracting from maintenance view

Hello Experts,

There is a maintenance view in R/3 which I have to extract. When I try to enter this view in the RSA2 for the creation of generic datasource I get an error "Only transparent tables and database views can be extracted"

Do i have to create a Database view based on the same definetion?

Is there any direct way to converting this maintenance view to database view?

Is there any other alternative to create datasource for a maintenance view?

Any suggestions appreciated.

Thanks a bunch,

BWer