Automating essbase data export

Ideally, I would like to give the opportunity to the "Hyperion Planning" users to launch a data extractions from Essbase which result in a simple "csv" file (the users haven't any access to the Excell Add-In or Smartview).
These files would then be published in the workspace if possible.
My first question is, is there a way or what's the best approach to give the users the opportunity to launch "on demand" the extraction process through the Workspace or Planning (launching a "Calc script" ?) ?
Secondly, regarding the extraction, Hyperion and Essbase are so "rich" that I'm asking me what is the best way to do that :
- a "reportscript";
- a "calcscript" (DATAEXPORT);
- a vba module in Excell;
Thank you for your advises.
Regards to all of you.

Yes there is a way to give users to launch data extract scripts from Planning and Smart View. It has to be a calc script.
However it may be difficult to access those (extract) files by users. Usually they are placed on Arborpath.
As far as posting this file to different location where users have access to, have a cron/batch job looking for new file and move it over to desired location. Security measures need to be taken to avoid unauthorized users accessing the file. If possible, have file email to user thru cron job.

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We have an ODI interface in our environment which is used to export the data from Essbase apps to text files using Data export calc scripts and then we load those text files in a relational database. Laetely we are seeing some issue where the Data Export calc script is not overwriting the file and is just appending the new data to the existing file.
The OverWriteFile option is set to ON.
SET DATAEXPORTOPTIONS {
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     DataExportOverWriteFile ON;
DataExportDimHeader ON;
     DataExportColHeader "Period";
     DataExportDynamicCalc ON;
The "Scenario" variable is a substitution variable which is set during the runtime. We are trying to extract "Budget" but the calc script is not clearing the "Actual" scenario from the text file which was the scenario that was extracted earlier. Its like after the execution of the calc script, the file contains both "Actual" and "Budget" data. We are not able to find the root cause as in why this might be happening and why OVERWRITEFILE command is not being taken into account by the data export calc script.
We have also deleted the text data file to make sure there are no temporary files on the server or anything. But when we ran the data export directly from Essbase again, then again the file contained both "Actual" as well as "Budget" data which really strange. We have never encountered an issue like this before.
Any suggestions regarding this issue?

Did some more testing and pretty much zoomed on the issue. Our Scenario is actually something like this "Q1FCST-Budget", "Q2FCST-Budget" etc
This is the reason why we need to use a member function because Calc Script reads "&ODI_SCENARIO" (which is set to Q2FCST-Budget) as a number and gives an error. To convert this value to a string we are using @member function. And, this seems the root cause of the issue. The ODI_Scenario variable is set to "Q2FCST-Budget", but when we run the script with this calculation function @member("&ODI_SCENARIO"), the data file brings back the values for "Q1FCST-Budget" out of nowhere in addition to "Q2FCST-Budget" data which we are trying to extract.
Successful Test Case 1:
1) Put Scenario "Q2FCST-Budget" in hard coded letters in Script and ran the script
e.g "Q2FCST-Phased"
2) Ran the Script
3) Result Ok.Script overwrote the file with Q2FCST-Budget data
Successful Case 2:
1) Put scenario in @member function
e.g. @member("Q2FCST-Budget")
2) Results again ok
Failed Case:
1) Deleted the file
2) Put scenario in a substitution variable and used the member function "@member("&ODI_Scenario") and Ran the script . *ODI_SCENARIO is set to Q@FCST-Budget in Essbase variables.
e.g. @member("&ODI_SCENARIO")
3) Result : Script contained both "Q1FCST-Budget" as well as "Q2FCST-Budget" data values in the text file.
We are still not close to the root cause and why is this issue happening. Putting the sub var in the member function changes the complete picture and gives us inaccurate results.
Any clues anyone?

Essbase Data Export

Hi All,
We want to export only Budget level "0" data monthly, we have 9 dimensions, I kept 6 dimensions in FIX statement and use DATAExport command, but I am getting some garbage values? I am getting total 16 columns of data as I have used FIX (Jan:Dec) there should be only 12 columns
how dataexport command will work here, I didn't use 3 dimensions in the FIX statement, how it will fetch the data
We are using Essbase 9.3.1 and I am using Calc Script.
Thanks in Advance,

I'm going to guess that your time dimension is one of your dense dimensions. Data Export will choose one of the dense dimensions as the columns and use iy. You can specify which Dense dimension to use in the Set statements.

Essbase Data Export Default

Apologies if this has already been answered previously, have had a look through DBAG and the help through EAS and its not immediately clear whether this can be done.
Running 11.1.2.1
When using the 'right click on a DB and Export' method in EAS, is it possible to amend the default location that the file will drop into (otherwise having to specify the location that we want each and every time)?
If not, could this be done through a MAXL command? (im a beginner when it comes to this, but assume it wouldn't be too much of a chore to do....)
Thanks for any advice in advance.
JB

Thanks Vas & Glenn.
I am aware that you can specify the path when you run the export which I assume is what you were alluding to below above Glenn, but was wondering if there was a way to alter the default destination in a cfg file somewhere (or by some other means); this would save us having to type this in each time (or copying and pasting in)....
Its obviously not a massive issue and after some more digging it is looking like this would not be possible. Looks like MaxL is the best bet for this...
Thanks again, appreciate the input as always.
JB
Edited by: 889392 on 09-Jan-2012 06:42

Essbase & Planning Data Exports

Hi,
Wanted to know the different ways of exporting data out of Essbase & Planning Apps to load into other relational database systems.
For pure Essbase apps, report scripts is one option. Please add any other methods you have used.
By Planning app, I mean I need to export both Essbase numeric data as well as planning related data such as Supporting detail, Cell Texts, Textual information.
Are there any advanced tools?
Appreciate your thoughts.
Thanks,
- Ethan.

Well, LCM comes to mind as it does all of the above.
Star Analytics Server may do much of what you want (it certainly does Essbase data exports, I don't know about the rest).
You could write SQL extracts for much of the dimensionality -- I have blogged almost all of these. The OutlineLoad.cmd tool in 11.1.2.2.300 form will export just about everything (not so sure about cell text, SD, etc.), and now it will do that to SQL. John Goodwin wrote about this a few months ago on his blog.
If you are looking for a fast export of targetted BSO data, take a look at MDX. I recently wrote about an undocumented (for now) MDX keyword -- NONEMPTYBLOCKS -- that makes level zero suppress #Missing data extracts really, really, really fast:
http://camerons-blog-for-essbase-hackers.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-fastest-way-to-export-targeted-data.html
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour
P.S. I should note that MDX only writes to text files and it's kind of ugly when it does it. The speed of that command may override any sense of offended aesthetics.
Edited by: CL on Jan 22, 2013 10:54 AM

Data Export to Oracle table from essbase issue

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please restart the application and try again . Check the application log if any details are there

Automator Workflow to export Numbers documents in PDF format

Does anyone know of any automator workflow to export Numbers documents in PDF format? I tried this program: Convert to PDF 1.2
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/automator/converttopdf_mauriziominelli.htm l
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Reading carefully is often useful.
The description of the tool which you tried clearly states :
*About Convert to PDF*
*_Convert all of your text files to PDF_. This action uses the underlying cups printing system ability to convert files, it’s a simple front end to the command line tool cupsfilter.*
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I already posted a script exporting Numbers documents as PDF.
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Enregistrer le script en tant que Script : save2Numbers&PDF.scpt
déplacer le fichier créé dans le dossier
<VolumeDeDémarrage>:Users:<votreCompte>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Numbers:
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construite sur sa date de modification.
--=====
L'aide du Finder explique:
L'Utilitaire AppleScript permet d'activer le Menu des scripts :
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+++++++
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--=====
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
modifié 2010/08/17
property closeIt : true
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property theApp : "Numbers"
property theExt : "numbers"
--=====
on run
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activate
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if modified of le_document then save le_document
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set {xPath, xExt} to my saveAs(thePath)
if closeIt then tell application theApp to close document 1 saving no
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--=====
on saveAs(p)
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else
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set nomde_lexport to nomde_loriginal & "." & extension_export
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• CAUTION, When saving, Numbers doesn't take care of an existing document.
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-- =====
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--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 17 août 2010 18:16:27

Essbase data backup - 9.3.1

Hi All,
I have a question around Essbase data backups.
We are on 9.3.1 and the Essbase data files (.ind and .pag) are under the default location (Hyperion\Essbase\App etc).
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Provided the Essbase application & database is stopped when the backup occurs, backing up the ind and pag files, as well as the Database outline(*.otl), *.tct , *.db, *.dbb, *.esm files should allow you to recover from a backup. I have had successfull recoveries from standard file backup of these files without issue, and in pretty good time.
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Edited by: ImranS on Apr 7, 2009 9:51 AM

Data Exportation

I am stumped on a Data Exportation issue. I thought I would post the issue on the forum to see if anyone can help me. We are using Planning 11.1.1.3.
In essbase we had a calc script written to export data to a txt file. When I ran the calc script recently I noticed a department (dept 101) was not being included in the export file. Here is what has me stumped:
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When I look at the departments in Planning I see nothing different in the set up for dept 101 when compared to the set up of departments 100 and 102.I realize its probably hard to diagnose the issue without viewing the dimensions, export file, CS, etc. However, any comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thx!

When I look at the departments in Planning I see nothing different in the set up for dept 101 when compared to the set up of departments 100 and 102.
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Essbase cube empty vs Essbase data file not empty. It is possible?

Hi Guys,
This morning end-users has alerted that our planning cube has no data. I have verified that the export file was completely empty despite that Essbase data file (ess00001.pag) is about 3 MB. How does it is possible? I am trying to recover the proper situation using backups buit I don't know how to identify when database was cleaned (end users dind't acces to essbase since 2 weeks ago).
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Could the level 0 data have been zeroed out, and no agg run to propagate the zeros (or #Missing) to upper levels?
Did you at one time have some data in the database, then lock n send to overwrite?
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Hi Guru,
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