Based on the version of the SAP BI system, you can create and activate an InfoSource or a DataSource. You can use the Designer to import a 3.x data source or a 7.x data source as an SAP BW target definition. You can then include the SAP BW target definition in a mapping to load data into SAP BI.

When you create a mapping, you can configure the mapping to filter data before loading the data into an SAP BI target. Filtering data increases session performance when the selection occurs during the extraction process, minimizing the amount of records loaded into SAP BI.

To filter data, you configure a data selection in the

Data Selection

tab of the InfoPackage. You then configure the Source Qualifier or Filter transformation in the mapping to use mapping parameters to represent the data selection entry you configured in SAP BI.