Allocation Issue

Question

Hi all,
I have a complicated allocation issue. I want to know i have any chance to do?
I have a dimension(MARK) in that i have material group members like 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000.
And i have also a dimension(MATERIAL) in that i have material members like 000000001,000000002,000000003.
And i have a property ZMARK in MATERIAL DIMENSION. And members like 1000, 2000,3000,4000.
I enter the data to MARK. And I want to allocate this value to MATERIAL where MATERIAL.ZMARK=MARK
SO:
SELECT(%V_MARK%,[ID],MARK,"[M]='M1'")
Output------>   1000, 1001, 1002, 1003, 1004
RUNALLOCATION
*DIM ACCOUNT WHAT=G1000;  WHERE=<<<;       USING=G2000;    TOTAL=<<<;
*DIM MARK          WHAT=%V_MARK%;     WHERE=<<<;           USING=<<<;     TOTAL=<<<;
*DIM MATERIAL      WHAT=NS;       WHERE=[ZMARK]=%V_MARK%;      USING=<<<;    TOTAL=<<<;
ENDALLOCATION
ex: first step;
*DIM ACCOUNT WHAT=G1000;  WHERE=<<<;       USING=G2000;    TOTAL=<<<;
*DIM MARK          WHAT=1000;     WHERE=<<<;           USING=<<<;     TOTAL=<<<;
*DIM MATERIAL      WHAT=NS;       WHERE=[ZMARK]=1000;      USING=<<<;   TOTAL=<<<;
ex: second step;
*DIM ACCOUNT WHAT=G1000;  WHERE=<<<;       USING=G2000;   TOTAL=<<<;
*DIM MARK          WHAT=1001;     WHERE=<<<;           USING=<<<;    TOTAL=<<<;
*DIM MATERIAL      WHAT=NS;       WHERE=[ZMARK]=1001;      USING=<<<;     TOTAL=<<<;
Is there any way to do this? Can i use a for statement in allocation?
Thanks in advance.
Burak

Answer 1

Hi Burak,
It's not very clear what you are trying to do since example with a variable does (or supposed to do) something different from what your example with constants does. Example with varaible will take values from MARK records that are in %V_MARK% and allocate them to all MATERIAL records that have ZMARK in same varaible. On the other side, example with constants will do similar thing, but just one MARK value at a time. Diffrence here is that in the first case it distributes the total value while in the second case values only inside one MARK are allocated. Unless ACCOUNT G2000 have same values across different MARKs those two allocations will deliver different results.
So, if what you want to achieve is described in your example with constants than FOR/NEXT will help you. You can put something like
*FOR %ONE_MARK% = %V_MARK%
*DIM ACCOUNT WHAT=G1000;  WHERE=<<<;       USING=G2000;    TOTAL=<<<;
*DIM MARK          WHAT=%ONE_MARK%;     WHERE=<<<;           USING=<<<;     TOTAL=<<<;
*DIM MATERIAL      WHAT=NS;       WHERE=[ZMARK]=%ONE_MARK%;      USING=<<<;    TOTAL=<<<;
*NEXT
This will generate as many allocations as many values you have in %V_MARK%.
Please let me now if want the first option.
Regards,
Gersh