Loading Data Using Outline Load Utility - Error

Question

Trying to load some data using Outline Load Utility. I followed the Oracle documentation on this and Under the Administration -> Manage Data Load area I defined Accounts as data load dimension, and period as driver dimension. I then added Jan - Feb as driver members. I wanted to load data for Jan. My data header looks like this:
Accounts,Jan,Point-of-View,Data Load Cube Name
acct1, 768, "2010, Ver1, Actuals, entity1, etc" Plan1
The command i typed is this:
C:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\Planning\planning1>outlineload /A:Plan1 /U:Admin /M /I:C:\MockData2.txt /D:Accounts /L:C:\dataload.log /X:c:\dataload.exc
I get the following errors:
[Mon Nov 22 11:03:02 CST 2010] Unrecognized column header value "Jan".
[Mon Nov 22 11:03:02 CST 2010] Unrecognized column header value "Point-of-View".
[Mon Nov 22 11:03:02 CST 2010] Unrecognized column header value "Data Load Cube Name".
[Mon Nov 22 11:03:02 CST 2010]Unable to obtain dimension information and/or perform a data load: Unrecognized column header value(s), refer to previous messages. (Note: column header values are case sensitive.)
[Mon Nov 22 11:03:02 CST 2010]Planning Outline data store load process finished with exceptions: not all input records were read due to errors (or an empty input file). 0 data records were read, 0 data records were processed, 0 were successfully loaded, 0 were rejected.
This is version 11.1.2. What am I doing wrong here? I also find it interesting that the command for data load and metadata load is the same as per oracle docs. I guess Planning knows if we're trying to load data or metadata based on the CSV file header?

Answer 1

I don't usually bother with loading data using the outline load utility but as a test on 11.1.2 using the planning sample application I gave it a quick go.
In planning, went to Administration > Data Load Settings > Picked Account as the data load dimension, Period as the driver dimension and selected Jan as a member
I created a file :-
Account,Jan,Point-of-View,Data Load Cube Name
TestMember,100,"Local,E05,Actual,NoSegment,Working,FY11",Consol
And used the following command line from the directory with the planning utilities
OutlineLoad /A:plansamp /U:admin /M /N /I:F:/temp/dload.csv /D:Account /L:F:/temp/outlineLoad.log /X:F:/temp/outlineLoad.exc
The log produced :-
[Tue Nov 23 10:02:01 GMT 2010]Successfully located and opened input file "F:\temp\dload.csv".
[Tue Nov 23 10:02:01 GMT 2010]Header record fields: Account, Jan, Point-of-View, Data Load Cube Name
[Tue Nov 23 10:02:01 GMT 2010]Located and using "Account" dimension for loading data in "plansamp" application.
[Tue Nov 23 10:02:01 GMT 2010]Load dimension "Account" has been unlocked successfully.
[Tue Nov 23 10:02:01 GMT 2010]A cube refresh operation will not be performed.
[Tue Nov 23 10:02:01 GMT 2010]Create security filters operation will not be performed.
[Tue Nov 23 10:02:01 GMT 2010]Examine the Essbase log files for status if Essbase data was loaded.
[Tue Nov 23 10:02:01 GMT 2010]Planning Outline load process finished (with no data load as specified (/N)). 1 data record was read, 1 data record was processed, 1 was accepted, 0 were rejected.
There you go no problems.
Cheers
John
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