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Tip: How to Skip Dataflows for Testing or Restarting a Job for Recovery
Trick: Use Bypass
One of the greatest features of SAP Data Services is the ability to divert dataflows/workflows in a large workflow or job with multiple steps.
This becomes very important when performing system testing or an even more critical situation- recovering an overnight job from failure!
There is a trick to getting this to work, however, you need to create a substitution variable first that will set the bypass to true.
We will cover that as well.
In our example, we are going to bypass a dataflow that is one step in a much larger workflow.
Prerequisites:
Basic skills and knowledge in SAP Data Services
Steps:
Log in to SAP Data Services
Go to Tools -> Substitution Parameters and create new one called $$Bypass = YES
Open a workflow that contains multiple dataflows as steps
Right-click a dataflow and select the Bypass option
Select the [$$Bypass] parameter created before
The dataflow will now show a no symbol
Execute the job and the log will show the dataflows as bypassed!
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