Allocation with hierarchies

Hi,
I have two questions regarding allocation in BPC 10 for NW:
1. I have in ACCOUNT dim two hierarchies: PARENTH1 and PARENTH2. When creating logic script for allocation I want to define data scope for node BEAPA in hierarchy PARENTH1 and I did it this way:
*XDIM_MEMBERSET ACCOUNT=BAS(BEAPA)
What if I have the same node in hierarchy PARENTH2? I made several tries combining BAS(BEAPA) with PARENTH1 but I had no luck...
2. I want to allocate plan data evenly among children of a node. In documentation I read that I shoudl use "*FACTOR = 1/COUNT" for that but when I run package I get error:
------------ ABAP Code Generation Error:4 -------------
MESSAGEGTUField "COUNT" is unknown. It is neither in one of the specified tables nor defined by a "DATA" statement. "DATA" statement.
Line11 WordCOUNT
My ALLOCATION script code below:
*XDIM_MEMBERSET ACCOUNT=BAS(BEAPA),BAS(BEAPC)
*XDIM_MEMBERSET TIME=2006.01
*XDIM_MEMBERSET CATEGORY=Plan,Budget
*XDIM_MEMBERSET AUDITTRAIL=Input
*XDIM_MEMBERSET ENTITY=CSO
*XDIM_MEMBERSET INTERCO=I_DE
*XDIM_MEMBERSET PRODUCT=ProductA
*XDIM_MEMBERSET RPTCURRENCY=EUR
*XDIM_MEMBERSET MEASURES=PERIODIC
*RUNALLOCATION
*FACTOR = 1/COUNT
*DIM CATEGORY WHAT=Plan ;WHERE=Budget;
//Using={expression}; Total={expression}
*DIM ACCOUNT WHAT=BEAPA.1PL ;WHERE=BAS(BEAPA) ;
*ENDALLOCATION
Regards,
Andrzej

Hi Vadim,
re 1 - thanks!
re 2 - in handbook for training BPC420 "SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, Version for SAP NetWeaver: Administration"
Anyway is there any way to distribute evenly?
Regards,
Andrzej

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At some point some people realised that this paging of the SGA was actually slowing performance of Oracle, as now some 'memory' accesses by Oracle could actually cause 'disk' accesses by paging in saved pages from the swap device. So some operating systems introduced a 'lock' option when creating a shared memory segment (shmat system call if memory serves me). And this was often enabled by a corresponding Oracle initialisation parameter, such as lock_sga.
Now a 'locked' SGA did use up the full physical memory, and was guaranteed not to be paged out to disk. So Oracle SGA access was now always at memory speed, and consistent.
Some operating systems took advantage of this 'lock' flag to shared memory segment creation to implement some other performance optimisations. One is not to allocate paging storage from swap space anyway, as it cannot be used by this shared memory segment. Another is to share the secondary page tables within the virtual memory sub-system for this segment over all processes attached to it i.e. one shared page table for the segment, not one page table per process. This can lead to massive memory savings on large SGAs with many attached shadow server processes. Another optimisation on this non-paged, contiguous memory segment is to use large memory pages instead of standard small ones. On Solaris instead of one page entry covering 8 KB of physical memory, it covers 8 MB of physical memory. This reduces the size of the virtual memory page table by a factor of 1,000 - another major memory saving.
These were some of the optimisations that the original Red Hat Enterprise Linux had to introduce, to play catch up with Solaris, and to not waste memory on large page tables.
Due to these extra optimisations, Solaris chose to call this 'locking' of shared memory segments 'initimate shared memory' or ISM for short. And I think there was a corresponding Oracle parameter 'use_ism'. This is now the default setting in Oracle ports to Solaris.
As a result, this is why when Oracle grabs its shared memory segment up front (SGA_MAX_SIZE), it results in that amount of real physical memory being allocated and used.
With Oracle 9i and 10g when Oracle introduced the SGA_TARGET and other settings and could dynamically resize the SGA, this messed things up for Solaris. Because the shared memory segment was 'Intimate' by default, and was not backed up by paging space on the swap device, it could never shrink in size, or release memory as it could not be paged out.
Eventually Sun wrote a work around for this problem, and called it Dynamic Intimate Shared Memory (DISM). This is not on by default in Oracle, hence you are seeing all your shared memory segments using the same amount of physical memory. DISM allows the 'lock' flag to be turned on and off on a shared memory segment, and to be done over various memory sizes.
I am not sure of the details, and so am beginning to get vague here. But I remember that this was a workaround on Sun's part to still get the benefits of ISM and the memory savings from large virtual memory pages and shared secondary page tables, while allowing Oracle to manage the SGA size dynamically and be able to release memory back for use by other things. I'm not sure if DISM allows Oracle to mark memory areas as pageable or locked, or whether it allows Oracle to really grow and shrink the size of a single shared memory segment. I presumed it added yet more flags to the various shared memory system calls.
Although DISM should work on normal, single Solaris systems, as you know it is not enabled by default, and requires a special initialisation parameter. Also be aware that there are issues with DISM on high end Solaris systems that support Domains (F15K, F25K, etc.) and in Solaris Zones or Containers. Domains have problems when you want to dynamically remove a CPU/Memory board from the system, and the allocations of memory on that board must be reallocated to other memory boards. This can break the rule that a locked shared memory segment must occupy contiguous physical memory. It took Sun another couple of releases of Solaris (or patches or quarterly releases) before they got DISM to work properly in a system with domains.
I hope I am not trying to teach my granny to suck eggs, if you know what I mean. I just thought I'd provide a bit more background details.
John

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