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Create Workflow (part 1), Enrich Data With Data Transform in SAP Data Intelligence, Trial Edition
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Create Workflow (part 1), Enrich Data With Data Transform in SAP Data Intelligence, Trial Edition

Roy Zhong
Roy Zhong
June 4, 2020
Created by
Anish Gupta
October 19, 2018
Beginner
30 min.
SAP Data Intelligence, Tutorial, Big Data, Beginner
Build a pipeline to enrich device data with country information by using SAP Data Intelligence, trial edition.

You will learn

  • How to create Data Transform
  • How to enrich dataset
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Please note here in this tutorial GCP refers to Google Cloud platform and AWS refers to Amazon Web Services, Azure refers to Microsoft Azure.

Step 1: Add data transform and trigger

You are logged as a system user to a default tenant and are at the Application Launchpad page.

Open the modelling environment for building pipelines via SAP Data Intelligence Modeler.

  1. Click Modeler to open a Modeler UI.

    Modeler

  2. Create a new graph.

    • Go to the navigation pane.
    • Select the Graphs tab navigation pane toolbar.
    • Choose + (Create Graph). The tool opens an empty graph editor in the same window, where you can define your graph.
    • Add Workflow Trigger operator to the graph by drag and drop.
    • Add Spark Data Transform operator to the graph by drag and drop.
    • Connect the output port of the Workflow Trigger to the input port of the Spark Data Transform operator.
    Create Graph
Done
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Step 2: Create data sources

  1. Double click on the Spark Data Transform operator and it will open the Editor. Here you have to model your Data Workflow by creating data sources and targets along with transformation operators.

  2. From the Nodes menu on the left, drag and drop a Data Source to the editor.

    Nodes

    Hint As this is a Spark Data Transform task, only Nodes can be added to the task.

    Add Data Source

  3. Double click on the Data Source to open the Data Source Editor.

  4. Configure the details for the particular data source.

    • Click the Browse.

    • Select CLOUD_STORAGE connection from the list.

      Hint You will see the connection here only, if you have configured the same under Connection Management.

    • As Source, browse the AWS S3 or Google Cloud Storage or Windows Azure Storage Blob and choose Devices.csv file. As soon as the file is selected, file configuration parameters will be Auto-proposed.

    Config Source

  5. Click the Back at the left top corner, navigate back to the Spark Data Transform editor page.

  6. Add another Data Source.

    • Using drag and drop, add another Data Source to the task.
    • Double click on it to open the Data Source editor.
    • Click the Browse.
    • Select CLOUD_STORAGE connection from the list.
    • As Source, choose Customers.csv file.
    Add another data source

  7. Navigate back to the Spark Data Transform editor page.

    Back to editor
Done
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Step 3: Join data sources
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In this step you are going to join the two data sources you have created and then to configure the join operator.

  1. Add Join to the task from the Nodes tab in the left side menu on the left through drag and drop.

  2. Connect the DataSource1_Output1 output port of the DataSource1 to Join1_Input1 input port of the Join1 operator.

  3. Similarly, connect the DataSource2_Output1 output port of the DataSource2 to Join1_Input2 input port of the Join1 operator.

    Join Data

  4. Double click on the Join operator and open its configuration. Both the Data Sources connected as inputs are displayed as Join inputs.

  5. Configure join.

    • Click on Join1_Input1 table.
    • Click on the Join highlighted in Step 1 of the below image.
    • Holding the click, drag to the connecting point for the table Join1_Input2 highlighted in Step 2 of the below image and release the click once the second table turns green indicating successful connection.
      The resulting join will be similar to Step 3 of the above image.
    Config Joins

  6. As soon as the two tables are connected, a Join Definition dialog box will be displayed in the bottom part. Paste the following Join condition in the dialog box.

    "Join1_Input1"."CUSTOMER" = "Join1_Input2"."CUSTOMER"
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  7. Open the Columns page. On this page, graphical representation of the selected columns is displayed. You can select the output columns of the join condition.

  8. Drag & drop the column from source to target. Make sure that you only select the following columns:

    Source Source Column
    Join1_Input1 (Devices) DEVICE
    Join1_Input1 (Devices) TYPE
    Join1_Input1 (Devices) CUSTOMER
    Join1_Input1 (Devices) TIME
    Join1_Input2 (Customers) COUNTRY
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  9. Make sure the output should look similar to the above screenshot. Make sure that the name of the Target columns is similar to those in the below screenshot. If not, you can edit the target column names on this page.

  10. Navigate back to the Spark Data Transform editor page.

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Step 4: Create data target

You now have to provide a destination for the results of the Join operation. This is achieved by specifying a target.

  1. From the Nodes tab in the left side menu, drag and drop a Data Target to the task.

  2. Connect the Join1_Output1 output port of the Join1 node to the DataTarget1_Input1 input port of the DataTarget1 node.

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  3. Double click on the newly added Data Target node and open the configuration page. As you have connected the Join and the Data Target nodes, Modeler will automatically detect the columns for the Data Target.

  4. Click on the Browse button for connection and select CLOUD_STORAGE. Later maintain the following configuration for the target :

    Field                                         Value
    Target Directory under which the new .csv file would be created. Type in the path manually if you want to create a new directory e.g. /CSV/EnrichedDevices
    File Format CSV
    Column Delimiter ;
    Character Set ISO-8859-2
    Text Delimiter "
    Escape Character "
    Includes Header Yes
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  5. Using the back button at the top left, navigate back to the pipeline where you have a Workflow Trigger connected to a Spark Data Transform .

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Step 5: Add a terminator and execute data transform task

  1. From the Operators tab in the left side menu, drag and drop a Workflow Terminator to the graph.

  2. Connect the output out port of the Spark Data Transform to the stop in port of the Workflow Terminator.

  3. Save the graph as name is mytest.workflow1 and description is Workflow 1.

  4. Execute the graph using the buttons at the top of the page. The execution status is displayed in the bottom part of the screen and it changes from Running to Completed once the execution completes. It will take a few minutes to complete.

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Done
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Step 6: Check result

Now check the result of the Data Transform task. You can check the results from the Modeler itself.

  1. Open the pipeline you have created.

  2. Double click the Spark Data Transform operator.

  3. Double click on the Data Target node which opens the configuration page.

  4. Navigate to the DATA PREVIEW by using the button at the top right corner of the page.

  5. You may need to increase the total fetched row count to 300 or more in order to see the entire dataset using the funnel icon in the upper right corner

Results

You see that in contrast to the Devices data set, the EnrichedDevices data set does not include any null values. The original file has been enriched. Using the above screenshot and your generated EnrichedDevices data set, answer the below question.

What is the value of COUNTRY (Column C4 in the screenshot) for Customer number (Row 1 in the screenshot) 1000000001? Ideally it should be the first row in the EnrichedDevices dataset.
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