Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS - IBM Redbooks

Planning profiles are used to only present those planning objects from the
possibly very large quantity of planning objects, which are relevant for a specific
user or for a certain planning task.
planning sequence
List of user-defined planning functions or parameter groups, which are
processed sequentially in the order determined by the list.
Planning sequences are used to execute recurrent complex planning tasks as
efficiently as possible. These can be defined both locally within a planning area
and globally across several planning areas.
Port
A defined point of interface into and out of a component.
Portal Connection Framework
Part of SAP's Enterprise Portal, provides a set of APIs which extend the standard
JCA interfaces and are used to build Portal-compliant connectors. The BI Java
Connectors are compliant with the Portal Connection Framework.
primary source system
Source system from which recently created or changed objects need to be
transported into another target source system.
A primary source system is, within the framework of a system landscape
consisting of OLTP and BW systems, an OLTP development system. The
respective target source system is the OLTP system that is connected with the BI
target system.
In order to be able to transport objects that are specific to the source system (for
example, transfer structures), the logical system names must be specified for the
source systems before and after the transport in a mapping table in the BI target
system.
process
Process with a definite beginning and end within or outside of an SAP system.
process chain
Sequence of processes that are scheduled in the background to wait for a
particular event. Some of these processes trigger an additional event, which in
turn can start other processes.
process instance
Value of the process:
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