Cannot Initialize Sample Application in Hyperion Planning

Question

Hi,
I am new to Essbase and Hyperion EPM System 11.1.1.1.0, and I am currently trying to test Planning functionality. I have installed and configured the EPM system, and when I run the EPM System Diagnostics, everything is Successful except Connecting to Essbase Studio Server (which is a seperate issue for another thread).
I am trying to work with the sample Planning application included with the install. I followed directions here from John Goodwin's blog, but I encounter an error when I try to initialize the sample application. I have also tried creating the application through the Workspace, which is documented here. I get the same error when initializing the sample application.
The error message I'm getting says: "Failed to initialize Sample Application. Please see log for details." Where is this Planning log located? I am running on Tomcat.
When I try to create the database, following John's blog, through Administration > Manage Database > Create, I also am getting an error on step 18 of 21: [Consol] Verifying member formulas. The error reads:
com.hyperion.planning.olap.HspVerifyOutlineException: Verify Outline failed with the following errors:
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "411100".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "412100".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "412200".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "451000".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "501111".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "501112".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "501130".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "501240".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "501250".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "511200".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "511300".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "511400".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "511500".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "511600".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "511700".
     Error [1200497] detected in member formula for member "511800".
What do I need to do to get this sample application up and running so I can see what it does?
How do I initialize the sample application?
Why can't I create a database correctly (without the error above) so I can then load data into the Consol database via the Essbase Administration Services Console? Currently the outline in EAS does not verify (it gives me the same list of member error messages above), and so I cannot load the sampleapp_data into the database. If anyone has any insight, please help. Thank you.
-Scott

Answer 1

Thanks Seb,
This was very helpful, but my problem of initiliazing and creating a functional Sample Applicaiton is not quite solved. I checked my outline in Essbase Administration Services, and received the same member errors I mentioned in my first post. It seems that my outline has member formulas that reference unknown member names (as you suggested), so these members with invalid member formulas are returning errors. I went in to all these members and manually changed the formula scripts to ; (semi-colon) and verified them.
After I fixed all the errors, the outline verified successfully. However, I still am getting an Error when trying to load data from sampleapp_data.txt file. The first couple times, my error was related to unknown members names that were in the datafile but not in my outline, like "FY08", "Plan", "BAS" (i'm guessing this is a currency?), and "Working". It gave me these errors one at a time, so for example, the first time when loading the data the error would read "Unknown Member in File [FY08]", then after i added that member to the outline it would go through a list of other unknown members one by one. Finally, when I manually added them all, I am currently getting this error message after attempting to load the sampleapp_data.txt file:
Parallel dataload enables; [1] block prepare threads, [1] block write threads.
Incorrect Number Of Column Members In Asymmetric File After [1] Records Completed.
Unexpected Essbase error 1003005.
I have the Oracle guide that describes what Essbase error 1003005 means, but the information isn't very helpful to me. The guide simply seems to suggest that I check to see that my datasource is valid. Since my data source is the sampleapp_data.txt file included with the installation, I myself did not create the data so I really don't know how to ensure that it is valid. Is it possible that when I downloaded the files, I got a bad version of the Sample Application database outline or datafile? I am unsure of how to fix this problem, as my goal still remains to test the functionality of Essbase and Hyperion Planning. If anyone can point towards a solution or towards another way to test out applications in Planning, please help. Thank you.
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