Which stage is better for SAP data extraction: ABAP or BAPI

gordonxiao · Post by **gordonxiao** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:15 pm

Hi All,

I am using the DataStage Extract Pack for SAP R/3. I know from the help document of this pack that there are at least two methods to extract data from SAP: one is ABAP stage, the other is BAPI stage.

I have tested BAPI stage and it works fine. But the performance is not so good. I tested ABAP stage but it didn't work (see my last post). I don't know whose performance is better, ABAP stage or BAPI stage.

If you have any experience on this, please kindly give me some ideas.

Thanks,
Gordon

Sainath.Srinivasan · Post by **Sainath.Srinivasan** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 4:56 am

ABAP is simple and straight-forward.

BAPI involves SAP side knowledge and development.

vinaymanchinila · Post by **vinaymanchinila** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 1:00 pm

Apart from that, if you use ABAP stage I believe you can easily pass the job paramaters and debugging the code is also lot transparent.

gordonxiao · Post by **gordonxiao** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:29 am

vinaymanchinila wrote:Apart from that, if you use ABAP stage I believe you can easily pass the job paramaters and debugging the code is also lot transparent.

Thank you. Your post reminds me another problem, that is how to pass table parameters to BAPI RFC? Can I still use a input file? If yes, what's the proper format for the table parameter in this input file?

Best Regards,
Gordon

gordonxiao · Post by **gordonxiao** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 3:32 am

Sainath.Srinivasan wrote:ABAP is simple and straight-forward.

BAPI involves SAP side knowledge and development.

Thank you, but our customer is more concerned with the performance of these two stages. Which one do you think is more faster than another?

Best Regards,
Gordon

Sainath.Srinivasan · Post by **Sainath.Srinivasan** » Sun Jun 05, 2005 4:02 am

ABAP must be faster.