Problem with retrieve - wrong outline structure?

Question

Hi all,
I use essbase 11.1.2.
I have a Cube with a dimension "Employee" (10000 member) and a dimension "CostCenter" (1700 member).
They all have a measure value of 1.
When i make a drill down on Employee i get a list of 10 k entries. When i do an additional drill down on cost center i get essbase error message 1020051: Limit of 250000 used rows is passed. I can't understand why. i have supress zero rows and columns on.
and every customer only has a value in only one cost center (1:1). --> it should be still 10 k rows after the second drill down.
Why does essbase mean it needs more than 250000 rows?
I hope someone can help
thank you ,
best regards
Bernd

Answer 1

Hi Bernd,
This is a known problem. See My Oracle Support ID 591649.1.
I ran into the same issue last week. Here is the note from Oracle My Support:
Symptoms
When drilling down on a dimension with a lot of members, receiving the error "1020051 Maximum number of rows processed [250000] exceeded [251836]".
Cause
When users zoom in on one or more members, Essbase must process a larger grid containing selected members expanded to the zoom-in level set in the options.  By default, the number of rows Essbase can process is 250000.
Solution
This limitation has been removed in the EPM v11.1.2.1.102 release.  The maximum number of spreadsheet rows Essbase processes on a request can now be set to 16,384 or higher. For example, to increase the number of rows to one million, add the following to the $ARBORPATH/essbase.cfg file:
SSPROCROWLIMIT 1000000
It is not recommended to use a limit higher than 500,000.  A higher setting increases the memory utilization and will increase query times.
For versions prior to v11.1.2.1.102:
Increase the number of rows Essbase can process.  Add the following line to the essbase.cfg file:
SSPROCROWLIMIT 500000
The maximum that this can be set to is 500000.
Note:
SSPROCROWLIMIT applies to unprocessed rows; that is, it is the number of rows Essbase accepts before processing. Row processing eliminates missing rows. After processing, the number of rows that the client can retrieve depends on spreadsheet-defined limits.
If SSPROCROWLIMIT is exceeded, Essbase issues an error message and stops processing the request.
If using Advanced Interpretation mode in the Add-in, one cannot turn this setting off from the spreadsheet. The setting is not used in Freeform mode.
Cheers,
Mehmet