Solved this a different way. There are runtime attributes that can be pulled from any request via the methods of "if_rsbk_request_admintab_view" which is instanciated automatically at the beginning of each transformation routine. Here is the code that I put in the routine.
*declaring a local variable like the result type LOGSYS
Data: lvSource like RESULT.
*runs a method to get the source system from the runtime attributes of
*the request
*"p_r_request" is an instance of "if_rsbk_request_admintab_view" which
*has many different methods for runtime attributes
lvSource = p_r_request->GET_LOGSYS( ).
RESULT = lvSource.