Software Development on the SAP HANA Platform

Creating a Data Services project

In the next couple of sections we'll take a look at the steps necessary to load a CSV file into SAP HANA using Data Services. This presumes that neither the format of the CSV file, nor the SAP HANA instance, are known to Data Services, so we'll create all the individual objects necessary to perform our data flow.

Creating a project

As we saw earlier, a project in BODS is used to hold all the individual actions we need to perform.

In order to create a project, switch to the Projects tab, and right-click on some empty space inside that tab. Then select New from the context menu that will appear. You will see BODS' New Project dialog, which just asks for a name for your project. In this example, we'll call the project ...