Create data source

You can create several data sources for a client.

Procedure

  1. Select the Data source management component of the Client module.
  2. Click Edit in the toolbar.
  3. Click button_new Create data source in the toolbar.
  4. Specify your settings.

    Create a new data source of the same type as the source system data you want to extract.

    Enter a Name, e.g., JDBC_data_source, and where appropriate a Description, and then select JDBC as the Type for your data source.

    Every data source is uniquely identified by its name.

  5. Click OK.

PPM Customizing Toolkit now creates a data source with the name and type that you have specified.

Depending on the data source type, PPM Customizing Toolkit generates programs that help you to extract source system data and import data to PPM.

The applications are available in the Programs component of the Client module. In this example, PPM Customizing Toolkit generates the programs Extract data from data source JDBC_data source and Import data from data source JDBC_data_source to PPM.