RUN ALLOCATION

Question

Hi All,
*RUNALLOCATION
*FACTOR=USING/100
*DIM ACCOUNT  WHAT=570927; WHERE=570999; USING=CRITERIA1
*DIM ENTITY WHAT=31400; WHERE=31300; USING<>31300
*ENDALLOCATION
This allocation works fine.But I would like to execute this for all accounts(source) in entity 31400,
so can i use <ALL> here,i mean
*RUNALLOCATION
*FACTOR=USING/100
*DIM ACCOUNT  WHAT=<ALL>; WHERE=570999; USING=CRITERIA1
*DIM ENTITY WHAT=31400; WHERE=31300; USING<>31300
*ENDALLOCATION
is the above code is not working, is it correct? or give me an alternate solution for this.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Your syntax of
*DIM ENTITY WHAT=31400; WHERE=31300; USING31300
needs an equal sign in the using, as follows:
*DIM ENTITY WHAT=31400; WHERE=31300; USING=31300
or
*DIM ENTITY WHAT=31400; WHERE=31300; USING=<<<
Also note, for the account=BAS(Something), while this works, it is a bit slower at logic execution time than using a member property to flag the set of accounts -- especially if you have an account dimension with many levels. The logic will recursively scan through each level, until it gets to all the base members. (Check the debug log closely to see this.) If you use a member property, it will find all the members in a single pass. There's a trade-off here between dim maintenace complexity and performance, but you'll want to consider both options.