Pull Alternate Alias In a Report Script

I am interested in pulling data from a database using members on the outline from an Alternate Alias table using a report script. I have not been able to find any report script commands that will let me do this. Is this possible to do?JBF

Take a look at the <OUTALTSELECT command. It allows you to specify an alternate alias table in a report script.Regards,Jade----------------------------------Jade ColeSenior Business Intelligence ConsultantClarity [email protected]

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Removing Prefix of members/alias in report Scripts

I need to remove the pre fixes of all members/alias of a couple of dimensions through report script.( no need to modify the outline)
For example Costcenters start with C_ , which needs to be removed when the report is created( I know everybody is going to ask why it's not used already in the alias, but there was a requirement for the prefix)
I am using {RENAME } for specific members, but there are quite a few members with the prefix and I want to know if there's a way to remove them through report scripts
Thanks.

Another alternative frequently used, especially with report scripts is the use of alternate alias tables. There is the option to add up to, last time I checked, up to 8 alias tables. Most functionality is based on the "Default" alias table, but Report Scripts allows you select an alternate alias table by using "<OUTALTSELECT" by dimension. If you set the members aliases in the alternate table "Real_Cost_Center", then you could do...
<OUTALTSELECT ("Real_Cost_Center")
As a bonus, the usage of this alternate alias table means you can actually load data using the member name or any one of the aliases across all alias tables. The main "downfall" is the uniqueness requirement still applies to the alternate alias tables. Alternate alias tables are also frequently used when using any of the BI suite, where a given view/report/etc would benefit from short names.
Just another alternative...
Good Luck!
Kevin

Essbase report script match pattern on alias

report scriptHi,
I need some help on essbase report script. I have been racking my brain trying to figure out how to use the essbase report script command "<MATCH" so that I can match for a pattern on the alias name as opposed to the member name. I have searched the Internet with no luck. Maybe someone in this community knows how to do this. If you can reply with a specific example that would help me out as I am very visual.
Thanks in advance.

You can use <REPALIAS, e.g., for Sample.Basic:
<REPALIAS "Product"
<ROW ("Product")
<MATCH("Product", "Diet*"
Diet Cola
(24,761)
Diet Root Beer   25,185,158,741
Diet Cream
23,703,677,612
Diet Cola
(24,761)
Diet Root Beer   25,185,158,741
Diet Cream
23,703,677,612
Diet Drinks
48,888,811,592
Using <OUTALT on its own (confusingly, at least as I read the documentation) continues selecting by alias, but displays member name:
<OUTALT
<ROW ("Product")
<MATCH("Product", "Diet*"
100-20
(24,761)
200-20
25,185,158,741
300-30
23,703,677,612
100-20
(24,761)
200-20
25,185,158,741
300-30
23,703,677,612
Diet
48,888,811,592
Without either, the MATCH only looks at member names:
<ROW ("Product")
<MATCH("Product", "Diet*"
Diet
48,888,811,592

Report script taking very long time to export in ASO

Hi All,
My report script is taking very long time to execute and finally a message appears as timed out.
I'm working on ASO Cubes and there are 14 dimensions for which i need to export all data for all the dimensions for only one version.
The data is very huge and the member count in each dimension is also huge, so which is making me difficult to export the data.
Any suggestions??
Thanks

Here is a link that addresses several ways to optimize your report script. I utilize report scripts for Level 0 exports in an ASO environment as well, however the majority of our dimemsions are attribute dimensions.
These are the most effective solutions we have implemented to improve our exports via report scripts:
1. Make sure your report script is written in the order of how the Report Extractor retrieves data.
2. Supressing Zero and Missing Data
3. We use the LINK command within reports for some dimensions that are really big and pull at Level 0
4. Using Symmetric reports.
5. Breakout the exports in multiple reports.
However, you may also consider some additional solutions outlined in this link:
1. The MDX optimizing commands
2. Back end system settings
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12825_01/epm.111/esb_dbag/drpoptim.htm
I hope this helps. Maybe posting your report script would also help users to provide feedback.
Thanks
Edited by: ronnie on Jul 14, 2011 9:25 AM
Edited by: ronnie on Jul 14, 2011 9:53 AM

How to output the member UDA as a column in Report Script?

I tagged my account dimension members according to its classification instead of using an attribute dimension.
I wanted to use the assigned UDA for data loading purpose (select/reject records in rule file.
Please let me know the syntax to show UDA as a column in the report script.
Thanks.

It sounds like what you need is an alias table for loading purposes, rather than a UDA tied to the members.
Like Glenn said, you can't output the UDA in a report, but you can either output an alias or use the alias in the destination database. In this case, I'd use a new alias table rather than the default alias, something specific for the purpose.

Report Script

I have a substitution variable in report script for current week. Trying to add two more columns with the two prior weeks. Is there a command for that?

2. Assign a UDA to the weeks you want in the report and pull in the uda instead of the members^^^ Personally, I really like this approach. It's cleaner than having multiple substitution variables that need to get set every week and its just an outline update.
Either of Glenn's approaches would be fine, the above is just my $0.02.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

Report Script Performance Issues

Essbase Nation,
We have a report script that extracts a full 12 months worth of history in 7 minutes. The script that is used to extract the period dimension is as follows:
<Link (<Descendants("Dec YTD") And <Lev("Period",0))
The line above is then changed to pull just one month of data, and now the report script runs for 8 hours.
Please advise as to why the difference in performance.
Thank you.

ID 581459.1:
Goal
How to optimize Hyperion Essbase Report Scripts?
Solution
To optimize your Report follow the suggested guidelines below:
1. Decrease the amount of Dynamic Calcs in your outline. If you have to, make it dynamic calc and store.
2. Use the <Sparse command at the beginning of the report script.
3. Use the <Column command for the dense dimensions instead of using the Page command. The order of the dense dimensions in the Column command should
be the same as the order of the dense dimension in the outline. (Ex. <Column (D1, D2)).
4. Use the <Row command for the sparse dimensions. The order of the sparse dimensions in the Row command should be in the opposite order of the sparse
dimension in the outline. (Ex. <Row (S3, S2, S1)). This is commonly called sparse bottom up method.
5. If the user does not want to use the <Column command for the dense dimensions, then the dense dimensions should be placed at the end of the <Row command.
(Ex. <Row (S3, S2, S1, D1, D2)).
6. Do not use the Page command, use the Column command instead.

Report Script related question

Hi Experts,
I have written a report script in which I am using the {TABDELIMIT} formatting command, to get the output file as tab delimited. I am facing an issue when I use the <REPMBRALIAS command in my script because the output of this command is Member name followed by a space and then alias. This makes my file inconsistent in terms of the delimeter.
Is there any command in report script using which I can get the member name followed description seperated by a tab? My requirement is to take an extract of all level 0 accounts along with their descriptions for all cost centres in a delimited format so that I could further load it into FDM.
Thanks & Regards!

Thanks a loads for the replies everyone! The accounts have been poorly designed or no one would have thought that existing Essbase system would be replaced by HFM one fine day. Earlier data movement of Budget/Forecast data was from cube to cube, so that's usual stuff.
But now with Hyperion Planning to HFM integration, there is a requirement of drilling back to source file as its really difficult for the users to see accounts codes and understand the numbers.
The account codes are inconsistent too, combination of codes, strings with spaces and what not. It's time to create a new report writer command!
Thanks & Regards!

Report Script is Failing while Zooming in 55K+ member dimension

Hi,
we have a ASO cube and there is one dimension called PART NUMBER...which is having nearly 56,000 members...we wrote a report script to zoom in all the members under PART NUMBER along with other dimensions..
the problem we are facing is when we execute the script by removing the line
<DIMBOTTOM "Part Number"; the report script is executing fine and the final result includes 5200 rows, but when we try to execute the report script with <DIMBOTTOM "Part Number" , its getting failed.
any idea why its happening? is any limit on the number of records which the report script can pull? or is it related to any memory issues? do we need to change any configuration file settings???
Any help is much appreciated...
Thanks,
Sunil

Thanks Doug for your valuable input.
i tried with the options 2 and 3, but no joy :-(
i am not very good in option 1, so can you pls help me to show how to do that? below is my script.
//ESS_LOCALE English_UnitedStates.MS1252@Binary
{SUPPAGEHEADING}
{SUPCOLHEADING}
{SUPZEROROWS}
{SUPEMPTYROWS}
{ NOINDENTGEN }
{ SUPMISSINGROWS }
{SUPFEED}
{SUPHEADING}
{SUPBRACKETS}
{TABDELIMIT}
{ROWREPEAT}
{MISSINGTEXT "0"}
{DECIMAL 2}
<SUPSHARE
<Col (Period,Year,Entity)
<iDESCENDANTS "YTD"
<iDESCENDANTS "2007"
<iDESCENDANTS "L-200112"
<ROW (Account,"Revenue Segment",Platform,Customer,"Part Number")
<iDESCENDANTS "Total Revenue" ;
<iDESCENDANTS "Total Cos";
<iDESCENDANTS "Qty";
<DIMBOTTOM "Revenue Segment";
<DIMBOTTOM "Platform";
<DIMBOTTOM "Customer";
<DIMBOTTOM "Part Number";
//Run
!

Report script export 0 KB file from BSO application

HI, I am try to export budget data from classic planning application using report script in essbase. Report script is not giving any erros. After successful execution it is creating 0kb file. I am able to export data for the same combination using Calculation script. But, report script is not giving any output. I need to export data using report script only. Can any one help on this.

Can you post the calculation script too?
{SUPMISSINGROWS}
<PAGE(SCENARIO,VERSION,CURRENCY,YEAR,CUSTOME3)
BUDGET FINAL Local FY13
<ROW(ENTITY,ACCOUNT,CUSTOME1,CUSTOME2,PERIOD)
<LINK(IDESCENDANTS(ENTITY) AND <LEV(ENTITY,0))
<LINK(IDESCENDANTS(ACCOUNT) AND <LEV(Account,0))
<LINK(IDESCENDANTS(CUSTOME1) AND <LEV(CUSTOME1,0))
<LINK(IDESCENDANTS(CUSTOME2) AND <LEV(CUSTOME2,0))
JUL
<COLUMN(HSP_RATES)
HSP_INPUTVALUE
Why do you want to use LINK if you are pulling all level 0 <LEV will do the trick, unless you are targeting a specific parent other than the root.
Regards
Celvin

Report script error

hello every one
I have a report script that runs fine on version 7 essbase and later when we migrated the cube to essbase 11.1.1.1 and when i run the report script i get the fillowing erro message
vmmd01.*plnpw.plnpw.rep1* Execute report script September 23, 2010 12:11:22 PM EDT Failed
Error: 1023040 msg from remote site [[thur Sep 23 12:11:22 2010]vmmd01/ plnpr / plnpr /adminError(1042012) Network error [32]: Cannot Send Data]
plnpr is ASO cube ----source cube
plnpw is BSO cube----target cube
partition existing is transparent
We also have validated partitions.
I am not understanding why?
Edited by: lakshmi on Sep 24, 2010 9:35 AM
Edited by: lakshmi on Sep 24, 2010 9:36 AM
Edited by: lakshmi on Sep 24, 2010 9:41 AM
Edited by: lakshmi on Sep 24, 2010 9:42 AM
Edited by: lakshmi on Sep 24, 2010 9:52 AM
Edited by: lakshmi on Sep 24, 2010 12:40 PM
Edited by: lakshmi on Sep 24, 2010 12:44 PM

hi srinivas
thanks for the reply
FYI we are not pulling any remote data,we can break up the report script which we dont want to?
any ideas why is the essbase messing up?

Export data with list alias from alternate alias table

Hello,
I am working on a data export out of my BSO app using @JExport.
The problem is I need the default alias, alternate alias, data listed for all entities.
I can achieve the default alias by listing @ALIAS(@CURRMBR("Entity"))
How can I list the alternate alias?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Nima

Thats what I thought...just wanted to recofirm...guess I will have to go with the MAXL option and run the calc-script 2 times- first time with the default table and second time with the alternate alias table- will have 2 separate files but can merge them later on...
Thanks for your reply.
Nima

Optimize report script having many Link statements

Hi,
I have a report script in Essbase which uses around 10 <Link statements to extract level 1 entity members from decendants of specific entity members and around 8 <Link statements to extract level 0 account members from decendants of specific account members. I observed that this report script takes almost 10 to 12 hours to execute. After some investigation I found out that ideally a report script should have maximum 5 <Link statements defined; in case if there are more than 5 <Link statements the report script would run very slow.
Following is excerpt from my report script:
<PAGE ("Scenario", "Year")
<ROW("Entity", "Account", "Custom1", "Custom2")
<COLUMN("Period")
For Entity:
<LINK((<LEV("Entity","Lev1,Entity")) AND (<IDESC("Ent001")))
<LINK((<LEV("Entity","Lev1,Entity")) AND (<IDESC("Ent002")))
<LINK((<LEV("Entity","Lev1,Entity")) AND (<IDESC("Ent003")))
For Account:
Link ((<LEV("Account", "Lev0,Account")) AND (<IDESC("Acc001")))
Link ((<LEV("Account", "Lev0,Account")) AND (<IDESC("Acc002")))
Link ((<LEV("Account", "Lev0,Account")) AND (<IDESC("Acc003")))
Could you please help me to fine tune/optimize this report script and suggest an alternate way to write this script without <Link statements so that I could run this report script faster?
Thanks in advance!
AK

You state 10 but show six. Which is it?
As for performance, if you make it just one Entity dimension LINK statement, is it fast?
Following on that, have you tried breaking the report into multiple report scripts? If they are individually faster, you could just concatenate the output files through an OS batch script. The thought of 10 individual report scripts (although I suppose we are potentially talking about more than that but I can't tell based on the information you've provided) could be complicated, but it might be worthwhile from a prototyping perspective.
Have you tried joining them together with a "!" statement. <--What that means is you write a report script and terminate it with a !. Then write another, similar report script and stick a ! on it. And again, and again, etc. Essbase reads to the ! and then goes to the next report script.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

Heading in report script

Hi,
I have a report like that:
                    07     Jan-Jul YTD     R12 Jul
2009     STO001     31111110     P31-111     34925.50     44631.48     257909.97
2009     STO001     31111110     P20-111     42.78     364.20     3704.85
2009     STO001     31111110     P53-111     5044.80     6740.31     44175.52
2009     STO001     31111110     P115     0.00     0.00     4018.71
However, I would like to have the header like that:
Ano     Presidencia     Contas     Produto     07     Jan-Jul YTD     R12 Jul
2009     STO001     31111110     P31-111     34925.50     44631.48     257909.97
2009     STO001     31111110     P20-111     42.78     364.20     3704.85
2009     STO001     31111110     P53-111     5044.80     6740.31     44175.52
2009     STO001     31111110     P115     0.00     0.00     4018.71
What can I do to obtain the report?
See my report script below:
//ESS_LOCALE English_UnitedStates.Latin1@Binary
{ STARTHEADING
SUPPAGEHEADING
ENDHEADING }
<SETUP
{ TabDelimit }
{ decimal 2 }
{ SUPCOMMAS }
{ SUPBRACKETS }
{ NOINDENTGEN }
<ACCON <SYM <END
<ROW("Ano","Presidencia" ,"Plano de Contas","Produto" )
// Column Members
//{WIDTH 15}
{MISSINGTEXT "0.00"}
<COLUMN ( "Período")
"07"
"Jan-Jul YTD"
"R12 Jul"
// Page Members
"Actual"
{SupMissingRows}
// Row Members
{ROWREPEAT}
<DESCENDANTS "Personal Perfil"
{ROWREPEAT}
"2009"
{ROWREPEAT}
<DESCENDANTS "Prêmios Emitido-"
{ROWREPEAT}
<DESCENDANTS "SPCT"
<DESCENDANTS "STO Escr"
Thanks

Essbase reports do not put row headers on (Headers for the dimension members from the <rows command).
The best I have been able to do in the past was to have a file with the header info I wanted and after the report was created concatinate the header file with the report file using the Dos copy command.

Issue with report Script. DECIMAL option not working properly

Hi All,
One of my report scripts has the option { decimal n } set. Now I am getting this to work only for account members which has a '%' symbol in the name. For all other accounts, data is being exported as a whole number even though the cube has decimal values. This is an ASO cube. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
N

Here you go,
//ESS_LOCALE English_UnitedStates.Latin1@Binary
<sym
{supall}{ROWREPEAT}{tabdelimit}{nameson}{noindentgen}{ SUPCOMMAS }{SUPMISSINGROWS}{ DECIMAL 9}
<COLUMN (Period)
July August September October November December January February March April May1 June
<ROW(Year,Scenario,Version,Currency,Entity,Location,HSP_Rates,Stage,Business_Category,"BD_Responsible","Type_Of_Program","Client",Account)
//{ OUTALTNAMES }
&DCCurrFiscalYr
&CurrScenario
&CurrVersion
"HSP_InputValue"
"USD"
<LINK(<LEV (Entity,0))
<LINK(<LEV (Location,0))
<LINK(<LEV (Stage,0))
<LINK(<LEV (Business_Category,0))
<LINK(<LEV (BD_Responsible,0))
<LINK(<LEV (Type_Of_Program,0))
<LINK(<LEV ("Client",0))
"Net_Revenue"
"552"
"500"
"501"
"503"
"Contribution"
"Contribution %"
"SD_Costs"
"SD Margin"
"SD Margin %"
"Indirect Costs"
"PBT"
//"PBT %"
"Total Tax"
"PAT"
//"PAT %"
"Manpower Total"
"Billable agents"
"Total Seats"
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