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  1. Preface
  2. Starting Data Archive
  3. System Configuration
  4. Database Users and Privileges
  5. Source Connections
  6. Target Connections
  7. Archive Store Configuration
  8. Datatype Mapping
  9. Database Optimization
  10. SAP Application Retirement
  11. z/OS Source Data Retirement
  12. Seamless Data Access
  13. Data Discovery Portal
  14. Security
  15. SSL Communication with Data Vault
  16. LDAP User Authentication
  17. Auditing
  18. Running Jobs from External Applications
  19. Salesforce Archiving Administrator Tasks
  20. Upgrading Oracle History Data
  21. Upgrading PeopleSoft History Data
  22. Data Archive Maintenance
  23. Appendix A: Datetime and Numeric Formatting
  24. Appendix B: Data Archive Connectivity

Administrator Guide

Administrator Guide

SAP Datatypes

SAP Datatypes

The File Archive Loader job maps most SAP datatypes to a specific Data Vault datatype.
To view these mappings, click
Adminstration
Data Type Mappings for File Archive
. Select
SAP 4.X
from the list of available source connections.
If the SAP application that you want to retire is installed on a Microsoft SQL Server database and includes the LCHR datatype, you must create custom mappings for the LCHR datatype.
The following table lists the datatype mappings to create:
Source Datatype
Source Operator
Source Length
Source Precision, Scale
Data Vault Datatype
Data Vault Length Multiplier
Data Vault Length
Data Vault Precision, Scale
LCHR
Less than
3072
VARCHAR
4x
4x source length
LCHR
Equal to
3072
VARCHAR
4x
4x source length
LCHR
Greater than
3072
CLOB

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