Essbase reporting

I have a problem with Essbase reporting.I have this kind of db otl:Time (Dense) year month dayAccounts (Dense) Price OrderCostumers (Sparse) about 75000 IDProducts (Sparse) about 340 IDI need to get all the costumers, who haveordered two specific products (time is gen1).In the Excel retrieve works pretty fast, butwhen I try to do it in BI Designer, it takes at leasthour or more, to get the data in. What might cause this problem?

The filter on time doesn't really help since time is a dense dimension. Filtering on product is a help, since only blocks with the appropriate product are rerieved. The real problem is that you are having to bring in all 75000 customers in a single query. One of the great frustrations with Essbase presentation tools,(Analyzer, Reports, etc.) is that they use the poorly performing report script and to add insult to injury, they choose not to expose the query code. I can remember when Wired for Olap (predecessor of Analyzer) allowed you to write your own report script for processing in the web interface. That feature disappeared, giving us the inability to design truly assymetric reports (without the ponderous hide/show mechanism) and making it impossible to optimize the queries. (Reports does support truly asymmetric queries.) It seems to me that there outght to be a way to use the grid api in a web presentation tool, without having to write one from scratch. Short of that, we need to be able to expose the query underlying the retrieve. With repsect to the current problem, if there is any heirarchy in Customer, try the query at a higher level, then drill down to level 0. The upper level(s) will eliminate any group that has neither product and depending on the nature may give you some quicker response.

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thanks for ur reply. I checked the above workaround but found that the option Display Column -> Alias is not enabled. So am not able to select it. Hence now Member names is selected.
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i really thanks for your support ...
Here is my question
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