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Business Objects Data Integrator
Web Administrator
Scheduling, monitoring, and executing batch jobs
Configuring and managing tools
Configuring, starting, and stopping real-time servers
Configuring Job Server, Access Server, and repository usage
Configuring and managing adapters


Supported Platforms
Data Integrator runs on Windows platforms and under HP-UX (including 64-bit),
Sun Solaris,
AIX and Linux,
While the repository, which supports the Common Warehouse Meta model, may be based on Oracle, DB 2 or SQL Server.


Business Objects Data Services application offers a number of pre-defined transformations and functional objects that allow modeling of the ETL flows.
Data merging (MERGE),

Column mapping (QUERY),

Surrogate and natural keys generation

Conditional expressions which model the data flow

Performance of SQL queries (SQL),

Validation of records (VALIDATION),

Comparison of table contents (TABLE COMPARISION),

Parent-child relationship management



Building blocks in Data Services Designer
Datastores

Jobs

Workflows

Dataflows

Query Transform

Few Important Transforms

Sources – Files, Tables

Targets – Files, Tables

Running the BODS Jobs
Scheduling the BODS Jobs

Troubleshooting