Difference between LIS and LO Extraction

Both (LIS & LO) extractors are used to extract logica data from source system. Now a days most of the clients using LO extractor insted of LIS extractor.

LIS is old technique through which we can load the data. Here we use typical delta and full up-loading techniques to get data from an logistics application, it uses V1 and V2 update, it means that it was a synchronous or asynchronous update from the application documents to LIS structures at the time when the application document was posted.

LO Cockpit is new technique i think from bw 3.0 (not sure) which uses V3 which is an update that you can schedule, so it does not update at the time when you process the application documents, but it will be posted at a later stage.

You have separate datasources for header level, item level and schedule line level available in LO, you can choose at which level you want to extract your data and switch off others, which results in reduced data.we do not have this flexibility with LIS structures


All most all LIS extractor is outdated becuse of it's disadvantages.

Differences :

1. LIS works on transparent table concept and LO’s works on Cluster table concept.
2. Each data source i.e 2lis_11_s264 is splitted in to multiple data sources like 2 lis_11_vahdr, 2lis_11_vaitm,2lis_11_vascl, with this we can give more detailed level of information to the end users.
3. LIS works under Push mechanism where as Lo works on PULL Mechanism.
4. when we r doing delta then two transparent tables will come into picture i.e SBIW1 and SBIW2 in LIS. Where as in Los structures called LBWQ (Extractor queue), SM13 (Updatequeue)and RSA3 (delta queue).
5.LO cock pit is BW CONTENT EXTRACTOR
where as LIS is CUSTOMER GENERATED EXTRACTOR..
6.LO cockpit is uses Readymade datasorce...
but LIS we need to cretae everything...

and not to forget,
LO cockpit supports V3 update(BACK GROUND SCHEDULING Jobs)
LIS does't supports V3 update mode... it supports only V1 (SYNCHRONUS)& V2ASYNCHRONUS UPDATE)