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

which contain a reference to planning objects. Instead of a direct reference to a
planning object, an element can also contain a reference to a selector, which
references the planning object on its part. When several visible elements of the
Web interface refer to the same planning object, the maintenance effort is
reduced by a unified reference to the same selector.
On their part, selectors can be included as visible elements in a Web interface
and then enable the selection of the desired planning object by the user.
service
Parameterized service type.
service API
Technology package in SAP source systems of the SAP BW that facilitates a
high level of integration for data transfer from the source systems to SAP BW.
The service API makes it possible to:
► Make SAP application extractors available as the basis for data transfer from
source systems into SAP BW.
► Perform generic data extraction.
► Utilize delta processes.
► Access data in the source system directly from SAP BW (RemoteCube
support).
Service Provider Interface
implements the application interfaces supplied by an engine class, as each class
has a corresponding abstract Service Provider Interface (SPI) class that defines
the SPI methods that the cryptographic service providers must implement.
single document
Web item that displays, in the Web application, single documents on master data
that have been created in the Administrator Workbench or in master data
maintenance.
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol.
You can find the current SOAP specification on the World Wide Web Consortium
home page: http://www.w3c.org.
source Business Information Warehouse
Business Information Warehouse that is available to additional BW servers as a
source system.
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