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3495291 - Deleting DP Agent connection in SAP Datasphere results in error

Symptom

  • When attempting to delete or remove a DP Agent connection in the SAP Datasphere tenant the error below occurs: 
    There was an error when deleting the agent.
    remote source refers to the adapter location xxx. Move the remote source xxx to use adapter [ABAPAdapter] at a different location.

Environment

SAP Datasphere

Cause

There are Remote Sources linked to the ABAP Adapter used by the DP Agent that is being deleted. These must be unlinked to the DP Agent prior to deletion of the Agent. 

Resolution

Before removing the DP Agent connection in Datasphere, any Remote Source using that Agent as its "location" needs to either be moved to a new Agent location or deleted.

See Also

KBA 2420871 How to Unregister or Drop the Data Provisioning Agent from a SAP HANA server 

Keywords

Drop, dropping, remove, removing, delete, deleting, deletion , KBA , DS-DI-CON , Connections , Problem

Product

SAP Datasphere 1.0