Functionality
This method is called up by the Business Information Warehouse in thesource system to determine a description of requiredapplication-specific parameters where necessary.
Values for these parameters are entered by the administrator in thescheduler and are transferred with a data request to the source system.
Examples of such parameters could be User_name andPassword, but additional control parameters for the extractionprocess are also conceivable.
The implementation of this method is the task of the user of thestaging BAPIs for the Business Information Warehouse (3rd Party-Tool orcustomized application).

Further information
Staging BAPI specification

Description
Return parameter for the method. The return parameter gives informationabout the success or failure of the callup.
The source system should use one of the error messages described belowwhen presenting error messages. The fields TYPE, ID and NUMBER arealways filled in, message RSAR 051 is used for individual errormessages, the message text is then presented in the MESSAGE field.

• TYPE Message type:

S = Success, E = Error, W = Warning, I = Information

• ID Message class:

RSAR

• NUMBER Message number:

see below

Value range
Class Type Code Text
RSAR E 051
RSAR E 052 source system does not require any parameters

Default

Description
This parameter contains the description of the application-specificparameters, as a result of the callup for the method, with


• Name


• Description


• Data type


• Length


• Mandatory indicators


• Password indicators

The values for these parameters can be entered in the scheduler whendefining and scheduling the InfoPackage. The scheduler presents thesevalues to the source system as a part of the data request.

Value range