Information Steward 4.0 Installation without DS

[Former Member]

Hello Gurus,

We are planning to install Information steward ( Have licenses for Metadata manager/Metapedia only) . we are planning to use this functionality with our existing BOBJ environment. However, we have no Data services licenses. can someone please advise how to perform this deployment.

As per Installing Information Steward without Data Services - Enterprise Information Management - SCN Wiki . we dont need Dataservices unless we are using Data insight ( We can install DS with same IS license key, if planning to use Data insight) . We are not planning to use Data insight, so do we really need Data services to be installed.

Can standalone Information steward installation (Primary) will be suffice to use Metadata manager and metapedia functionality .

With out DS Job server, will the IS repository be updated.

Thanks

K

[sylvainchevalle]

Hi Karthik,

Data Services is pre-requisit for the primary Information Steward installation. The IS repository must be allocated to a jobserver, which is available only with a DS install. So yes your standalone (IPS/BIP+ SDS + SIS) installation should be enough for the requirement you describe, as long as you have the pre-requisit for the Metadata Integrator (windows platform only!). You still need a EIM Adaptive processor Service which is also only deployed when DS is installed succesfully.

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=327614800

Additonal notes can provide clearer background:

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1642384

http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/1566643

(both reference to each other).

Regarding the licensing topics as long as you only want to use the IS application then you do not need to license DS.

http://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/EIM/Licensing+of+Data+Services+for+Information+Steward+Deployme...

You will only need extra license if you want to use Data Integration or Data Quality features of Data Services.

I hope it helps. Regards

Sylvain