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Question

Hi, Essbae version 11.1.1.3, We have 3 cubes where 2 cubes gets consolidated into 3rd cube. PRME Cube(14 page files) and CCE(17 page files), but CONSOL is 70 page files.
CCE + PRME = CONSOL.
Is there any way to reduce(70 page files) this size. I tried exporting level0 from CONSOL and reimport and ran "CALC all" but same size.
CONSOL
Dimesion     Type     members in dim     Members stored
Account     Dense     2253     1899
Period     Dense     35     13
Entity_bu     Sparse     126     125
Years     Sparse     11     11
Ds     Sparse     98     49
MS     Sparse     33     32
Costcenter     Sparse     1526     1070
scenario     Sparse     32     12
product     Sparse     576     320
version     Sparse     25     25

Answer 1

Compression settings for 3 cubes is Bitmap encoding. And dimension order for 2 cubes were same and CONSOL cube was different.
Consol
Account     Dense
Period     Dense
Entity_bu     Sparse
Years     Sparse
Ds     Sparse
MS     Sparse
Costcenter     Sparse
scenario     Sparse
product     Sparse
version     Sparse
I am confused, when we talk about optimized model DENSE order should be Largest - smallest no of members. But in our case the 2 (planning) cubes order CCE + PRME dense order is Period then Account.
But COSOL (CCE + PRME) cube has Account first then Period. SHould I udpate the CONSOL same as PRME and CCE and reload data and AGG it.
Glenn, As you asked, This is only for reporting purpose. This cube is being created thru Planning , but data loads happen thru Essbase. If I have to create ASO, I need to pull out from Planning and should I create and maintain the cube in Essbase only?
Thanks
Radhika