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Permissions

Prepared Roles for Download

You can download and install prepared roles for SAP BW and SAP HANA. For SAP BO and SAC you must create the roles manually, following the documentation below.

  1. Download the role

  2. Install the roles in the target system

  3. Apply the roles to the user that is used for synchronization

Downloads

SAP BW synchronization role:
SAP BW Roles for Sync.zip

SAP HANA synchronization role:
SAP HANA Role for Sync.tgz

Documentation

SAP BW

For each connected SAP BW system, a user must be stored in the Enterprise Glossary. This user is used to access the required metadata.

This requires the user to have the necessary permissions:

  1. AAAB - Cross-application Authorization Objects
    S_RFC - Authorization Check for RFC Access [T-B274010500]

Authorizations field

Values

ACTVT

16 Execute

RFC_NAME

BDL_GET_GREENWICH_TIME, BDL5, DDIF_FIELDINFO_GET, RFC_FUNCTION_SEARCH, RFC_GET_FUNCTION_INTERFACE, RFC_PING, RFC_READ_TABLE, RFC1, RFCPING, RFC_SYSTEM_INFO, SDTX, SYST, <chosen prefix>RFC_GET_STRING, <name of function group for RFC_GET_STRING>

RFC_TYPE

FUGR, FUNC

S_TCODE - Transaction Code Check at Transaction Start [T-B274010500]

Authorizations field

Values

TCD

SE16, SE37


  1. BC_A - Basis: Administration
    S_TABU_DIS - Table Maintenance (using standard tools such as SM30) [T-B274010500]

Authorizations field

Values

ACTVT

03

DICBERCLS

BIDP, BWC

  

S_TABU_NAM - Table Access by Generic Standard Tools [T-B294000100]

Authorizations field

Values

ACTVT

DD03L, DD07T, RSAOOBJ, RSAOOBJT, RSAOOBJXREF, RSDATRNAV, RSDATRNAVT, RSDBCHATR, RSDCHA, RSDCUBE, RSDCUBET,, RSDIOBJT, RSDKYF, RSDTIM, RSDUNI,, RSFBP, RSFBPT,, RSOADSOT, RSOHCPR, RSOHCPRT, RSRWBINDEX, RSRWBINDEXT, RSZCALC, RSZELTATTR, RSOOBJXREF, RSOOBJXREF_HANA, RSRWORKBOOK, RSRREPDIR, RSZELTDIR, RSZELTPROP, RSZELTTXT, RSZELTXREF, RSZGLOBV, RVIFBPA, RSZRANGE, RSZSELECT, T002, T006A, TADIR, V_CMP_JOIN, RSAABAP, RSBOHDEST, RSBOHDESTT, RSBOHFIELDS, RSBOHFIELDST, RSDBCHATRXXL, RSDCUBEMULTI, RSDIOBJCMP, RSDODSO, RSDODSOT, RSDS, RSDSSEGFD, RSDSSEGFDT, RSDST, RSFBPFIELD, RSFBPFIELDT, RSFBPNAVATR, RSFBPNAVATRT, RSFBPSEMANTICS, RSFBPSOURCE, RSFOBUEV001, RSKSFIELDNEW, RSKSFIELDNEWT, RSKSNEW, RSKSNEWT, RSPLS_ALVL, RSPLS_ALVLT, RSPLS_ALVL_IOBJ, RSQISET, RSQISETT, RSQTOBJ, RSTRAN, RSTRANFIELD, RSTRANRULE, RSTRANRULET, RSTRANSTEPADSO, RSTRANSTEPCNST, RSTRANSTEPMASTER, RSTRANSTEPROUT, RSTRANSTEPSCRIPT, RSTRANT, RSZCOMPDIR, SEOCLASSDF, TCESYST, TMDIR, TRDIR, V_ELTDIR_TXT, V_REP_JOIN

SAP BO

General

View Objects on Root Folder

Additional: View Objects on each folder down the folder hierarchy, that should be visible (similar to BI Launchpad)

WebI Reports

View Objects on Web Intelligence Documents

Design Studio Reports

View Objects on Design Studio Applications

Analysis for Office Workbooks

View Objects on Analysis for Office Workbooks

Lumira 2.x Documents

View Objects on Lumira Documents 3.2

WebI Reports

View Objects on Web Intelligence Documents

View Objects on underlying connection (for displaying Query Name (for BEx; System Connection))

View SQL on Web Intelligence Documents (for Query Script and Where-Used Information)

Design Studio Reports

View Objects on Design Studio Applications

Analysis for Office Workbooks

View Objects on Analysis for Office Workbooks

Lumira 2.x Documents

View Objects on Lumira Documents

SAC

To access the SAC system, an OAuth client has to be created in your SAC.

Your SAC > System > Administration > App Integration > Add a New OAuth Client

Create an OAuth Client with the purpose "Interactive Usage & API Access" (Client Credential Grant) to have a “machine-to-machine” authorization. For access, enable all 6 checkboxes.

Create an OAuth Client
Create an OAuth Client
Access settings
Enable all 6 checkboxes

Learn more: SAP blog article

SAP HANA

Create the following role and assign it to the user that is used for synchronization:

role EnterpriseGlossary::EnterpriseGlossaryHanaRole {

  system privilege: CATALOG READ;
  catalog sql object "_SYS_BI"."BIMC_ALL_CUBES": SELECT;
  catalog sql object "PUBLIC"."OBJECT_DEPENDENCIES": SELECT;
  catalog sql object "PUBLIC"."VIEW_COLUMNS": SELECT;
  catalog sql object "_SYS_BI"."BIMC_PROPERTIES": SELECT;
}