What are the type of extractors in SAP BW Extraction?

Question

I am trying to get the Microsoft Connector for SAP BW ver 1.1 working in our environment. This is to push data into BW only not extract it. I have put the LibRFC.dll in place on the SQL server and can create a connection to BW. When I test the connection in SSIS it says OK so I know this bit is fine. When I do a test load I get an RFC failure. I have setup my Info cube and any necessary objects in BW. I have even looked on the gateway and can see the attempts but I need to interrogate the error at a lower level to find out what is going on. I am using SQL 2008 R2 with the Sap BW connector version 1.1. Can anybody offer me any help with this issue as its becoming quite critical.

Answer 1

In short you have two
1. Application Specific
2. Cross Application

Again Application specific are of two types a)BR content extractors and b)Customer Generated Extractors, see the following image.

Answer 2

There are two types of extractor . They are
1)Standard Extractor
2)Custom / Generic Extractor.

1)Standard Extractor : are the extractor which are already created by SAP which in present in R/3 in Tcode : RSA5 . and that datasource will be in the DELIVERED VERSION(D) , to convert it to the active version ,U have to activate in RSA5 .
2)Custom / Generic Extractor : are the extractor which are created by us using Tcode : RSO2