Automating essbase updates

Hi there everyone, I'm new to essbase (only 5 weeks experience) and have built anew database cube for my workplace. Currently over month endperiod we are updating the data 3 times a day and I am manuallyhaving to do this. I want to automate the process and have heardthat this can be done through maxl scripts (which i know nothingabout). Someone else has mentioned that maxl and essbase are nottime conscious and cannot run jobs at specified times etc... Is there a way round this or is there a better way toautomate the jobs as coming in at 7.30 to update is killingme!!! Many thanks for your help!Dreamscapeuk

If you have a Windows server, then you can use the job scheduling on the server to run a job at standard times. The best way to do it would be for the process to look for a pre-determined file to see whether it contained a specific flag (e.g. Y for Yes or N for No). If the flag was set to N then the process would terminate. If flag is set to Y thenh it would sweep a pre-determined file area to look for files with a designated name or extension (e.g all files starting DL*.txt), and if found it would load them using an agreed load rule, outputting any errors to an error file. Potential pit-falls: Making sure that the code is 100% , and taht it will error and terminate correctly. Making sure that it will find the data files Making sure that it will move the data files once loaded - unless you want the to be continually re-loaded ? If it isn't Windows, then I don't know. Hope this os of some use to you. I would strongly suggest that you try this out on a development server first, and then try to think of all the possible scenrios to see if your code can cope with them.

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