Fixed Cells in DP saved and reapply after initialization of the PA

Question

In our environment, we re-initialize the Planning Area each month and generate characteristic combos from scratch.  When you deinitialize the planning area, Fixed cells are typically deleted.  I'm interested in finding out if there is a way to save the information on Fixed Cells and then be able to reapply them after our system is reloaded.
Does anyone know if there is anything available in APO to help do this or how I would go about doing this?
Thanks.
Tekii

Answer 1

Hi Tekii,
You can take the fixing information into backup infocube and reload the data to planning area along with
fixing information.
To extract the fixing information to backup cube you have to consider the folllowing:
Since fixing is originally a BW feature,which requires 2 key figures (the original one and the fixable key
figure), the backup-cube always requires these 2 key figures. This can only be done if fixing information is stored the "old school" way.
As of SCM5.0 design of the DP liveCache it's much easier to define a key figure as fixable key figure( and is very flexible to change it when ever we want). But when we have to save the information for backup reasons,  the data extraction doesn't deliver any information if the key figure was fixed.
For lower release than SCM5.0 the fixing information was saved in a reference key figure to the fixable key figure. Fixed key figure had to be assigned in the corresponding field in order to hold fixing information. When it comes to backup information, the data sorce must contain both the key figures.
So  follow the same procedure  SCM4.x.
The reason is simply that the only possibility to save fixed key figures in BW is via reference key figures.
So assign the reference keyfigure to fixed keyfigures from RSD1 and then  use these 2 keyfigures in backup cube.
Hope this will helps you.
Regards,
Sunitha