How to Start BODS

How to get started?:-

After getting BODS installed on the machine, you can see the following on Start>All Programs

There are several components installed as part of SAP BODS 4.2 installation.

The major enhancement is in the Validation Transform in 4.0 which facilitates developers to switch on and off the validations flags easily for one or several columns.

What to launch next-   Normally, the developers would like to start BODS Designer to start developing jobs  straightaway, but it is always good to start creating own local repository first so that you have full control on your own development environment without any dependency on others.

In order to create your own local repository, it is important to know the database where you are allocated space quota to create the same.

It depends on the database vendor like Oracle, SQL Server, Informix, DB2, etc which you have currently access to.

However, BODS installation comes with default mySQL database, which you should have installed on your system.

There is need of user/schema and database creation on my SQL which can be easily done by DBA.

Once user /schema and database name information is assigned to you, you can create the local repository.