The data mart status in BW is a concept to be understood in case of issues with request deletion failures from info providers/data providers. If a request has already been updated to the next target then you cannot delete the request from the base info/data provider. This is logically true because data is being referenced from the base infoprovider. These issues particularly arise when a request has been previously rolled up in the aggregates of the infocubes and that request is considered for deletion in the process chains before deleting associated data from the BIA/traditional aggregates. In such cases the first stage should be to delete BIA indexes of that cube/delete associated requests from the target and then delete the request which is overlapping. Even if the BIA is not deleted, the system will perform the deletion of BIA first and then only proceed to deletion of request(time consuming hence recommended to first delete manually and creating them).
So the design of any process chain should be
1. For Aggregates:
Start > SAP_AGGREGATES_DEACTIVATE program step >delete overlapping request from the base info cube > SAP_AGGREGATES_ACTIVATE_FILL(with proper parameters)
2. For BIA indexed infocubes
Start -> Drop BIA indexes -> delete overlapping request from the base cube ->rebuild BIA.
In the second case where the request has been further updated to the target, first delete the associated request in the target by clicking on the data mart status to know the request in the next target and then proceed to delete the request.
For example:
Data is flowing from DSO A to Infocube B and you want to delete data from DSO A.
First delete the associated request from Infocube B and only then proceed to delete the request from DSO A.(you will see the DM status turns to blank once the request is deleted from infocube
TAKE AWAY: It is not possible to delete any request from an intermediate target without deleting the request from the upper targets. This is done for referential, data integrity purposes.
Life is so logical in SAP BW world, isn't it?
So the design of any process chain should be
1. For Aggregates:
Start > SAP_AGGREGATES_DEACTIVATE program step >delete overlapping request from the base info cube > SAP_AGGREGATES_ACTIVATE_FILL(with proper parameters)
2. For BIA indexed infocubes
Start -> Drop BIA indexes -> delete overlapping request from the base cube ->rebuild BIA.
In the second case where the request has been further updated to the target, first delete the associated request in the target by clicking on the data mart status to know the request in the next target and then proceed to delete the request.
For example:
Data is flowing from DSO A to Infocube B and you want to delete data from DSO A.
First delete the associated request from Infocube B and only then proceed to delete the request from DSO A.(you will see the DM status turns to blank once the request is deleted from infocube
TAKE AWAY: It is not possible to delete any request from an intermediate target without deleting the request from the upper targets. This is done for referential, data integrity purposes.
Life is so logical in SAP BW world, isn't it?
