A schema is a row description. It defines the number of fields
(columns) to be processed and passed on to the next component. When you create a Spark
Job, avoid the reserved word line when naming the
fields.

• Built-In: You create and store the schema locally for this component
  only.

• Repository: You have already created the schema and stored it in the
  Repository. You can reuse it in various projects and Job designs.

Click Edit
schema to make changes to the schema. If the current schema is of the Repository type, three options are available:

• View schema: choose this
  option to view the schema only.

• Change to built-in property:
  choose this option to change the schema to Built-in for local changes.

• Update repository connection:
  choose this option to change the schema stored in the repository and decide whether
  to propagate the changes to all the Jobs upon completion. If you just want to
  propagate the changes to the current Job, you can select No upon completion and choose this schema metadata
  again in the Repository Content
  window.

Enter the name of the input table between double quotation marks.

Specify the metadata mapping file
for the database to be used. The metadata mapping file is used for the data
type conversion between database and Java. For more information about the
metadata mapping, see the related documentation for Type mapping.

Note that this drop-down list is disabled, and by default, Mapping
SAP is selected and the SAP metadata mapping file is used.

Select this check box to gather the Job processing metadata at the Job level
as well as at each component level.

The error message generated by the component when an error occurs. This
is an After variable and it returns a string.

Usage rule

The tELTSAPInput component is more commonly used along with
the tELTSAPMap component. The name of the link from
tELTSAPInput to tELTSAPMap must be
same as the table name specified in the Default Table Name
field of tELTSAPInput.

Support

tELTSAPInput should be used to interact with the ERP part of
SAP, including S4/HANA.