How to extract data from a SAP ABAP system?

Question

I need to extract data from a SAP ABAP system in a format that can then be loaded into an Oracle database (xlsx,csv,dmp.. etc)

Once the data is extracted I\'ll use P

Answer 1

One option to solve this is to find an JDBC driver to the SAP ERP data that gathers the tables by looking at the SAP logical table level.

Once you have the right JDBC driver you can use that from Pentaho.

I have tried this kind of JDBC over SAP ERP solution with Talend and it works great.

RFC_READ_TABLE as pointed out by previous comments is pretty limited in terms of the number of table fields and also the number of records, not to mention conversion issues.