Report Agent Precalculation in BW 7.0?

Hello,
we are using BW 7.0 Backend, but 3.x Frontends.
We want to precalculate data - can Report Agent (3.x in RSA1old) functionality be used?
Or is it mandatory to use 7.0 functionality?
Your help is really appreciated !
Angelika

Not mandatory to use bi7 reporting agent for that
we could create bw3.5 queries for all the infoproviders who sit in bi7 and hence can use t code RSA1old for reporting agent settings,
even if u create setting in bi7 reporting agent it will work for 3.5 queries

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CESAR BENITO

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Keral Smith

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The reusability of the cache is poor when the "Not changeable during query navigation" variable setting is set. A preliminary calculation is not useful in this case.
Other terms
OLAP, cache, cache key, cache entries, reusability, reusage
preliminary calculation, variable not changeable during query navigation
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The various entries for each variable setting have different keys for "Not changeable during query navigation".
Solution
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