Essbase Calculation info

Hi,
Where can i find more information about Essbase calculation commands?
Thanks
Messi

Try,
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10530_01/doc/epm.931/html_esb_techref/funcs/funclist.htm
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10530_01/doc/epm.931/html_esb_techref/calc/calclist.htm
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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Essbase calculation commands info

Hi,
Where can I find more information about Essbase calculation commands?
Thanks
Messi

The Technical Reference Guide will be your new found friend. See the sections on Calculation Functions and Calculation Commands.
System 9: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10530_01/doc/epm.931/html_esb_techref/techref.htm
System 11: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12825_01/epm.111/esb_techref/launch.htm
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Essbase Calculation Script taking more time in new environment

Hi Everyone:
We have four environments in our implementation.
1. DEV Environment - 64 bit Essbase Version 11.1.1.3
2. PreProd Environment - 32 bit Essbase Version 9.3.0
3. PreProd Environment - 64 bit Essbase Version 11.1.1.3
In the above mentioned environment PreProd Environment - 64 bit Essbase Version 11.1.1.3 is a newly installed
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We have migrated our Application from PreProd Environment - 32 bit Essbase Version 9.3.0 to PreProd Environment - 64 bit Essbase Version 11.1.1.3. A calculation script that takes only 20 minutes in 32 bit PreProd is taking more than
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All the server settings and cache setting everything looks similar in all the three environments.
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Thanks for your reply.
I have cross checked the Virtual memory in both servers,in new server it was declared high.
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AGENTPORT 1423
SERVERPORTBEGIN 32768
SERVERPORTEND 33768
AGENTDESC hypservice_1
;CSSREFRESHLEVEL auto
;SHAREDSERVICESREFRESHINTERVAL 30
CALCCACHEHIGH 199999999
CALCCACHEDEFAULT 150000000
CALCCACHELOW 10000000
CALCLOCKBLOCKDEFAULT 3000
DATAERRORLIMIT 10000
UPDATECALC FALSE
EXCEPTIONLOGOVERWRITE FALSE
CALCREUSEDYNCALCBLOCKS FALSE
PORTUSAGELOGINTERVAL 15
QRYGOVEXECTIME 600
LOGMESSAGELEVEL INFO
CALCPARALLEL 6
MAXLOGINS 100000
AGENTDELAY 100
AGENTTHREADS 30
AGTSVRCONNECTIONS 10
SERVERTHREADS 25
EXPORTTHREADS 1
SSLOGUNKNOWN FALSE
CALCNOTICEDEFAULT 10
NETRETRYCOUNT 3000
NETDELAY 2000
__SM__BUFFERED_IO TRUE
__SM__WAITED_IO TRUE
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Index cache:250000
Data Cache:250000
Data file cache:32768
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Hi does any one know are there any calculation issue with essbase BSO cacl engine from version 6 to 7. Cube which calculates fine on 6 verison never ends to finish on version 7, does any one have ideas about number of max generations and levels possible under dense dimension in verison 7

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We see following happening in our essbase environment.
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When we look at the Application log on server logs we see that the calc is finished. But the Essbase Admin Services session manager still keeps showing the "calculate" session. This calculation session from EAS session manager window goes away only after a "network error" in the Application log on the server.
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==>This problem is encounterd only when users submit their data from Lock/Send template.
Call me crazy but I would focus my attention the lock&send template
Here are the questions that I would ask myself.
1) Does this sheet work for any users or do all have the problem?
2) Can I recreate the issue?
3) Reboot the pc, open only the lock&send template. Does the error still occur?
4) Does the code behind the button use the tool kit or the menu equivalents? i.e. do the functions begin with EssV or EssMenu?
5) can you display the return codes for the lock & send? What are they?
6) Look in the code and find the calc script name. Using the Essbase menu while in the template, Select lock, Send and then from the menu, calculate. Does this work?
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8) how big is the workbook? Workbooks corrupt over time. Do all users open the same book or do they have local copies?
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10)In the Essbase addin, check the message level. There may be a message that you are not seeing. Essbase->Options then global.
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-B
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Index Cache Size Setting : 1048576
Current Index Cache Size : 1048576
Index Page Size Setting : 8192
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Data Compression on Disk : Yes
Data Compression Type : BitMap Compression
Retrieval Buffer Size (in K) : 20
Retrieval Sort Buffer Size (in K) : 20
Isolation Level : Uncommitted Access
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Time Out : Never
Number of blocks modified before internal commit : 3000
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Number of disk volume definitions : 0
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Fiscal Years DENSE 5 4
Category DENSE 8 6
Final DENSE 3 3
SI SPARSE 5 5
ABC SPARSE 12 12
Product Type SPARSE 14 14
Periods SPARSE 13 13
Brand SPARSE 141641 139332
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Business Division SPARSE 5 5
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SI Curr Mo SPARSE 4 4
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Actually, Business rules are running essbase cubes in every case.
Remember planning and BRs are adding extra layers like prompts, forms, security, processes...
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I compiled the below java code which i am using to run a batch script from a calculation script using RUNJAVA.
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[Wed Mar 03 09:00:46 2010]Local/Demo///Error(1120006)
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[Wed Mar 03 09:00:47 2010]Local/Demo///Error(1120005)
Unable to lock file [E:\Hyperion\products\Essbase\EssbaseServer\APP\Demo\Basic\Basic.esm]. Please make sure other processes do not access Essbase files while Essbase server is running.
[Wed Mar 03 09:00:47 2010]Local/Demo///Warning(1007089)
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[Wed Mar 03 09:00:47 2010]Local/Demo///Error(1002097)
Unable to load database [Basic]
[Wed Mar 03 09:00:47 2010]Local/Demo///Error(1002097)
Unable to load database []
[Wed Mar 03 09:00:47 2010]Local/Demo///Error(1002097)
Unable to load database []
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We have configured a server to run Essbase with 8 core CPU and 16GB RAM. We found that the Essbase calculation can use up to 80% CPU and about 8GB RAM only. I also checked the IO rate at the same time but the disk loading is not very heavy. We just suspect that what kind of resource are waiting at Essbase calculation engine? It is not CPU bounded, memory bounded, and IO bounded.
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Edited by: hyperion planning user on Jun 2, 2009 12:27 AM
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I'm confused -- is it CPU bound or not?
You write:
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This means you're getting data from disk almost as fast as is possible.
You're not going to be able to get everything into memory for two reasons:
1) 30 GB of .IND and .PAG/.DAT files isn't going to fit into Essbase's addressable memory space. See: using RAM disk to speed up Essbase calculation and rollup
2) Even when the database is nice and small and you can stick the whole thing in a cache, uncompressed, Essbase still is "smart" and will keep a portion of it on disk during calcs -- this doesn't make sense in isolation, but empirically, you can monitor disk usage during a supposedly database that is in theory total enclosed in the cache and see it getting hit. This may be related to Essbase's general housekeeping -- I don't know. In any case, this is generally not a real world case, unless you're running your business on my Very Favorite Database In The Whole Wide World -- Sample.Basic.
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Hi All,
I am facing an issue with essbase server which gets hanged frequently. Following are essbase logs
Info(1051037)====Logging out user [admin]` active for 64 minutes
Info(1051164)====Received login request from [10.3.0.253]
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Hi John,
Following are the details
What version are you running on?
11.1.1.3
Is this windows or unix?
Windows
How many total users are you licensed for?
Not sure about that
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Cache Size:
Inline image 4
Index cache setting (KB): 1024000
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Data cache setting (KB): 307200
Data cache current value (KB): 126053
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Essbase standalone - login failed

Dear all,
I have installed Essbase 11.1.2.2 in standalone mode (without Foundation Services).
I did the configuration with -Forceregistry to configure Shared services database and deployed essbase in standalone mode.
Essbase starts correctlly within opmn.
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Hi,
You will find bellow the result of the test, after renaming essbase.sec file.
essbase starts correctly.
""Environment variable [HYPERION_LOGHOME] is set - use it to define Log location
folder.
Log location is [C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\diagnostics\logs\
essbase\essbase].
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1051283)
Retrieving License Information Please Wait...
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1051286)
License information retrieved.
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Essbase 64-bit - Release 11.1.2 (ESB11.1.2.2.100B2166)
Copyright (c) 1991, 2012, ........
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1051232)
Using English_UnitedStates.Latin1@Binary as the Essbase Locale
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1056823)
Reading Essbase config info [C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\Essba
seServer\essbaseserver1\EssbaseConfigInfo.properties]
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1056820)
Essbase config info was retrieved successfully with user name [null].
Registering user information
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[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1051075)
Creating demo application and database
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1051066)
Creating sample application and database
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1051065)
Creating sample currency databases
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1051214)
Creating sample_u application and database
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1051097)
Creating Samppart application and Company database
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1051099)
Creating Sampeast application and East database
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1051246)
Creating aggregate storage sample application and database
[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1056797)
Incremental security backup started by SYSTEM. The file created is [C:\Oracle\Mi
ddleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\EssbaseServer\essbaseserver1\bin\ESSBASETS_136
7850988.BAK]
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Logins are enabled
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[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1051051)
Essbase Server - started
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[Mon May 06 16:36:28 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///4292/Info(1056800)
Validation of back up file [C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\Essbas
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Enhancing Essbase performance using Exalytics box

Hy,
I moved my essbase platform to Exalytics. But, I'm disappointed. My calculation times still the same.
It's a Hyperion Planning cube therefore it's a BSO.
I put the ORACLEHARDWAREACCELERATION TRUE in the CFG. Changed data caches and commit blocks settings.
I saw something about RAMDISK. But, if the power shutdown I lost my database !!!
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              -- Essbase Don't Really need in the RamDrive. in all performance test - it's getting only 20% vs SATA II drive.
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My opinion it's simple
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                                         MBR1(
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