ASO question

hi allis there any maxl or esscmd commands to get aso database statistics: level 0 data size aggregation data size and so onthanxif possible pleas mail me at: [email protected]

You're a genius when it comes to Essbase^^^I was just lucky in my guess. I've been spending a lot of time on ASO basics lately so it came to mind.
I've been reading your posts as I dive into an ASO app. Your post on stored dimensions always aggregating first, and then the dynamic ones sure explained why my rate calculations don't work. Did you ever figure out a clever fix? Short of making everything dynamic, or writing a nasty CASE-based SUM formula (thanks to Gary C), or doing the rate calc external to Essbase, I'm stumped.
See, I am no Essbase genius. :)
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour
P.S. I will however, gladly take 10 points. Is your name Alex?

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Dear friends,
Issue with a ASO Formula, here case statement when using level 0 is not working,
we need to use one of the dimension(Entity_) all level 0, rest of the dimensions using one member.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Jay
Case
when (([Dim1],[Dim2],[Dim3],[Dim4]) = 1) /*Here the code verifies for a condition for the combnitation of Dim1,Dim2,Dim3,Dim4 to value 1*/
and
Islevel([enity].[PB],0) /* Here it has to work for all entities*/ (having issue at this point)
else
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end

You might try:
Case When Islevel([enity].currentmember,0) Then
Case When(([Dim1],[Dim2],[Dim3],[Dim4]) = 1) Then
I don't see what you want to claculate here
Else
1
End
End
A couple of things,
1. you don't have a formula if the embeded case is true
2. What do you want to do if it is not level zero? In some cases you will need to add a else between the two end statements and have a formula like
sum([Entity].currentmember.children,[this member name])
3. you referenced [entity].[db]. IS that a level 0 member? do you want all level 0 entity members, or just the ones under it? Depending on what you want, the syntax of the first case statement changes.

Question regarding ASO application in Essbase 11 version

Hi All,
Thanks for the replies to my previous posts.
I have a question regarding the ASO applications for telecom company built in Essbase 11 version. Please provide your feedback on the design.
The ASO application has the following number of Dimensions:
Dimensions     Number of Levels     Number of Level 0 Members     Number of Attribute Dimensions
Dimension1     2     6.5 million     15
Dimension2 1     3
Dimension3     1     4
Dimension4 1      6
Dimension5 1     6
Dimension6     1     5
Dimension7 1     3
Dimension8     5     1700
Dimension9     2     800
Dimension10 2     40000
Dimension11 3     750
Dimension12 2     34000
Dimension13 1      15
The number of Measures is 8.
The outline size is around 2.12 GB.
The data is mostly sparse. Does this design yield a good performance. Should I change some of the attributes to UDAs to increase the performance.I think Attribute dimensions are more flexible than UDAs but it affects the performance of the retrieval.
Thanks in advance.
Kannan.

In ASO attribute dimensions are treated like regular dimensions, That is to say they are materalized just like a regular dimension. Changing them to UDA's won't buy you the same performance as having them as dimensions will. The one nice thing about Attributes in ASO cubes (and BSO cubes) is you don't clutter us the screen with dimensions that are not used a lot. If your attrubite dimensions are used often in your ASO cube, there would be no performance difference if you made them regular dimensions.

ASO Demo Question

Hello All.
I have a question regarding an article posted in Oracle Magazine, that perhaps someone here will be able to answer.
The article is located here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2010/10-sep/o50bi-165473.html
Having only worked with BSO applications, I'm brushing up on ASO. Thought I'd follow the exercise in the article above.
However, when I do the dataload, I receive: Aggregate storage applications ignore update to derived cells. [74776] cells skipped (as one would expect with ASO).
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If you're using the file and the outline from the article I suspect you can safely ignore that dataload warning. I assume from your comment that you already know what it means.
At exactly what point in the process do you receive the 'Calculation scripts are not supported...' error? I can use the EAS editor to create and then 'Save As' calculation scripts to ASOsamp in my 11.1.2.2 environment, but I get that error if I try to validate. The EAS editor is not really much use for creating ASO scripts anyway.

ASO Concept Question

Hi,
I noticed that we have a Dimension sort order and Dimension solve order in ASO Cube ?
1) Can you please let me know the difference between them ? I have always felt ASO as a grey area.
2) How does the ASO perform calculation ? Is the calculation order similar to BSO?
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Thms

Go through admin guide as mehmet mentioned.
for your above questions
1. Sort order is to sort members in a hierarchy. Solve order is something like two pass calculation in BSO. You can specify order to calculate dynamic members by giving solve order.again, For more info refer admin guide.
2. ASO does not support calculation scripts as BSO do. You can design member formulas and scripts using MDX scripting language.

Import ASO MAXL syntax question

I have a maxl script I use to load an ASO database. I realize that I need to have not only the load rule set to append data but the import statement as well. I took the syntax straight from the Essbase documentation but I'm still getting an error. Here's my script:
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import database App.DB data from load_buffer with buffer_id 1 add values;
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import database App.DB data from data_file '0947Generic.txt' using server rules_file 'RetailB.rul' to load_buffer with buffer_id 1 on error write to 'RetailB2.err';
import database App.DB data from load_buffer with buffer_id 1 add values;
My error file shows this as an error:
essmsh error: Parse error near add
Any ideas?

Jeanette R. wrote:
I have a maxl script I use to load an ASO database. I realize that I need to have not only the load rule set to append data but the import statement as well. I took the syntax straight from the Essbase documentation but I'm still getting an error. Here's my script:
alter database App.DB initialize load_buffer with buffer_id 1;
import database App.DB data from data_file '0947Brand.txt' using server rules_file 'RetailB.rul' to load_buffer with buffer_id 1 on error write to 'RetailB1.err';
import database App.DB data from load_buffer with buffer_id 1 add values;
alter database App.DB initialize load_buffer with buffer_id 1;
import database App.DB data from data_file '0947Generic.txt' using server rules_file 'RetailB.rul' to load_buffer with buffer_id 1 on error write to 'RetailB2.err';
import database App.DB data from load_buffer with buffer_id 1 add values;
My error file shows this as an error:
essmsh error: Parse error near add
Any ideas?Not sure of the error, but you are not really using buffers efficiently. You should have a single
alter database App.DB initialize load_buffer with buffer_id 1;
then your two import statements
and finally the
import database App.DB data from load_buffer with buffer_id 1; statement
Your actual import statements should have the add values
When you load multiple files into a buffer at once, it takes and adds the intersections together automatically. you only need the add values if you want to add the values to existing values in the cube.

ASO best practice question

After 8+ years of working with BSO, I'm working on my first ASO cube. It is for Federally mandated reporting, so the output is pretty well known what is needed. So far there are 3 different reports "Defined", we know there will be more.
Because the line items are not a simple 1-1 relationship with an account (typically there is a combination of members from 3 different dimensions that make up 1 line item to be reported) we have decided to try making formula members for the line items. The formulas are simple, just defining the slice (combination) needed for that line. Because this cube already had some formula members in "Time Periods" (Dynamic YTD members for each Month), and some different "Views" (MTD, YTD, and HTD) I am quickly getting lost in Solve-Order hell.
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Cameron,
The other way around.
I am mocking the reports in excel, that will be recreated in FR. I am building 2 different versions in excel, one which uses the formula members in the row of the report, and one which accesses the different members directly without using formula members (I had originally intended the direct member access to be my means of data validation).
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I understand your comments about letting the users "roll their own", I just had a converation with the BA where I told her that we may have to restrict all access outside of FR, and whatever input engine we build them so they can't "roll their own".
Time is running short and I am experiencing weird things because of solve-order.
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execute allocation process on database app.db with
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change it to:
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Thanks,
Jeeth
Edited by: Jithendra on Oct 14, 2010 5:20 PM

ASO OTL Formula Question

I am attempting to create a scenario that presents lagged data (ie in march show the data for February). Sample of formula.
CASE
WHEN IS ([Jan],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([Dec],[2008 Actual]))
WHEN IS ([Feb],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([Jan],[2009 Actual]))
WHEN IS ([Mar],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([Feb],[2009 Actual]))
WHEN IS ([Apr],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([Mar],[2009 Actual]))
WHEN IS ([May],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([Apr],[2009 Actual]))
WHEN IS ([Jun],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([May],[2009 Actual]))
WHEN IS ([Jul],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([Jun],[2009 Actual]))
WHEN IS ([Aug],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([Jul],[2009 Actual]))
WHEN IS ([Sep],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([Aug],[2009 Actual]))
WHEN IS ([Oct],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([Sep],[2009 Actual]))
WHEN IS ([Nov],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([Oct],[2009 Actual]))
WHEN IS ([Dec],[Time].CurrentMember)
THEN ( ([Nov],[2009 Actual]))
END

Question 1: Is there a problem with what you have? Does it work? Is it slow? are you looking to do it better?
Question 2: Do you have Year and Scenario in the Same dimension? If you do, you should change that and break them out, that is not a good design methodology
If they were separate you could do something simple like
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Questions on Print Quote report

Hi,
I'm fairly new to Oracle Quoting and trying to get familiar with it. I have a few questions and would appreciate if anyone answers them
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Thanks and Appreciate your patience
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1) We have a requirement to customize the Print Quote report. I searched these forums and found that this report can be defined either as a XML Publisher report or an Oracle Reports report depending on a profile option. Can you please let me know what the name of the profile option is?
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Problem with BSO - ASO partitions (Essbase 9.3.1)

Hi there,
Is it possible to create a BSO partition on top of four ASO cubes when using member set functions in the partition definition (e.g. @GENMBRS or @LEVMBRS)?
I have tried that but always get an “overlapping partitions” error, although the partition members are not defined overlapped. The cellcount does match.
Appreciate any hints.
Thanks in advance.

Obviously this won't resolve your entire problem, but just to answer the first question you can definitely use e.g. @GENMBRS successfully in the partition definitions for a single BSO cube over multiple ASO cubes in 9.3.1.

Need a process to update BSO Planning Web form into an ASO Cube

Need a process to update information from the BSO Planning Web form into an ASO Report Cube every (5) five minutes.
Please advise

Thanks here is Part 2 of my questions
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Conditions Need to decided for ASO or BSO cube?

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Could you please tell me on what conditions or business needs we need to decided whether we need to build an ASO or BSO cube?,
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Which needs to be Dense & which needs to be Sparse if it is BSO cube?
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For dense data sets and Analytic databases ( databases with complex calculations ) and read/write databases we will go for BSO.
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Hi All,
I wanted to get some perspective on industry best practices as it relates to performing Income Statement & Balance Sheet reporting via a single Essbase ASO cube. As both these areas share a lot of common dimensions, do most of the companies implement a single cube for integrated reporting or split cubes and have tools like HFR, Web Analysis etc. combine the information from those cubes for integrated cube.
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Hi All,
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Appreciate any thoughts on this.
Thanks!

You have asked this question the essbase forum :- ncome Statement & Balance Sheet Reporting via a single ASO cube
Best keeping it to one forum and seeing it is a purely essbase question.
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