Manage the SAP S/4HANA Connector

Describes the SAP Hana connector.

The Self-Service Analytics SAP S/4HANA connector lets you access the data stored within your in-memory database using the Self-Service Analytics client.

Before you can establish a connection from Self-Service Analytics to SAP S/4HANA storage, a connector server needs to be installed and configured. See Manage Connectors and Connector Servers for general instructions and Connect to SAP S/4HANA for details specific to this connector.

After setting up the connector, create data sources that specify the necessary connection information and identify the data you want to use. See Create and Manage Data Sources for more information. After you set up your data sources, create dashboards, self service reports, and visuals from the data in these data sources.

Feature Support

Connector support for specific features is shown in the following table.

Key: Y - Supported; N - Not Supported; N/A - not applicable

Feature	Supported?
Admin-Defined Functions	Y
Box Plots	Y
Custom SQL Queries	Y
Derived Fields (Row-Level Expressions)	Y
Distinct Counts	Y
Fast Distinct Values	N/A
Group By Multiple Fields	Y
Group By Time	Y
Group By UNIX Time	Y
Histogram Floating Point Values	Y
Histograms	Y
Kerberos Authentication	N
Last Value	Y
Live Mode and Playback	Y
Multivalued Fields	N/A
Nested Fields	N/A
Partitions	N
Pushdown Joins for Fusion Data Sources	N
Schemas	Y
Text Search	N/A
TLS	Y
User Delegation	N
Wildcard Filters	Y
Wildcard Filters, Case-Insensitive Mode	Y
Wildcard Filters, Case-Sensitive Mode	Y

Connect to SAP S/4HANA

The SAP S/4Hana connector requires a JDBC driver to be configured before you can connect to your data source. You can download the driver from the vendor’s site. For information and steps, see Add a JDBC Driver.

When setting up a connection to SAP S/4HANA, you need to provide the following:

• The name of the connection

• The JDBC URL. The format for the JDBC URL must be as follows:

  jdbc:datadirect:ddhybrid://{hdp_url};hybridDataPipelineDataSource={hdp_datasource};
  

• The username and password, if applicable