Set up SAP BW/4HANA Private Preview

Create a dedicated service user in SAP BW/4HANA and assign the required RFC permissions so Atlan can extract metadata from your system.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have:

• Administrative access to SAP BW/4HANA.
• Self-Deployed Runtime deployed that meets the system requirements. For installation, see Install Self-Deployed Runtime.
• Reviewed how Atlan connects to SAP BW/4HANA to understand the connection model before configuring access.
• SAP system details, including:
  • Host
  • System number
  • Client number

Create communication user for metadata extraction

1. In the SAP GUI command field, enter SU01 and press Enter to open User Maintenance.
2. In the User field, enter a name for the new service user and click Create.
3. On the Address tab, provide the required contact information.
4. Open the Logon Data tab and:
   • Set an initial password (enter it twice).
   • Set User Type to C (Communications Data).
5. Switch to the Roles tab and assign roles that enable:
   • Remote function call (RFC) execution
   • Table-level read access for metadata tables
   • Access to system-level information
6. Verify that the assigned roles enable execution of these RFC modules:
   • STFC_CONNECTION: Verifies connectivity between Atlan and SAP BW/4HANA.
   • RFC_SYSTEM_INFO: Retrieves system metadata such as SYSID, operating system, and release version.
   • RFC_READ_TABLE: Enables table-level reads for metadata extraction.
7. Click Save to confirm the changes.

note

The user must change the password on first login.

Next steps

• Crawl SAP BW/4HANA: Follow the instructions to extract metadata using the configured service user.