Top 10 Transactions for BWA Management

 By. Dr. Berg

BW-Accelerator is no-longer a technology toddler. It has reached school age and many of the childhood limitations are no longer present. Actually, it can now deliver on many of the promises of this 21^st century technology by giving SAP customers the ability to remove InfoCubes from their system landscape.

This alone is a good reason to employ the technology.  You no longer have to wait for slow process chains and pay for duplicated data storage space. Instead, you can simply load all data from DSOs right into fast in-memory indexes. So how do you use BWA?  Here are a few ideas:

Top-10 BWA Management Transaction and Programs

1. SAP BW Accelerator is accessed by queries and also by any job the use the application programming interface (SAPRSDRI_INFOPROV_READ) or the data read transaction (LISTCUBE) or any of the OLAP interfaces to 3rd party tools. So pretty much any data read is faster, not just BEx queries.

 2. The admin interface is available under the transaction code RSDDBWAMON/RSDDBIAMON and provide for a single simple user interface that is fast to learn. From here you can: 

• Restart BIA server: restarts all the BI accelerator servers and services.
• Restart BIA Index Server: restart the index server.
• Reorganize BIA Landscape: If the BI accelerator server landscape is unevenly distributed, redistributes the loaded indexes on the BI accelerator servers.
• Rebuild BIA Indexes: If a check discovers inconsistencies in the indexes, delete and rebuild the BI accelerator indexes.

3. Health checks for BWA are available under the transaction code RSRV, so it is easy to see how the system is performing.

4. You can see if anyone is using the BWA indexes in “RSDDSTATBIAUSE” and usage details are also available in ‘RSRT’ after patch 16. “RSDDSTATBIAUSE” is a table [added: 4/24]

5. You can turn-off the BWA use for individual users in transaction code SU01

6. You can turn off the BWA index query availability for Infocubes through the transaction “RSDDBIAMON2”

7. You can check your installation using the function moduleprogram [edited 4/24]  'TREX_CHECK_BIA_INSTALLATION’

8. You can use the ABAP program ‘’ZZ_SET_QUERY_NOHPA_FLAG to turn off BWA access for single queries in the RSRREPDIR table (note:1161525)

 9. In TREXADMIN you can see the number of records in the BWA indexed Infocube. Select the RFC Server, Execute, Click on tab “Index Admin”. For each InfoCube select BIA as the Index ID. The records are equal to the # of documents. This is also available in: RSDDV- BIA Indexes and SE16 – RSDDTREXDIR

 10. You can check global parameters in RSRV and you can change global parameters in RSBATCH and RSDDBIAMON