*RUNLOGIC call executes sometimes, but not others

Question

Hi all,
I hope someone has insight into this problem.
I have 2 applications, Sales & CostCenter, that each feed data into a Consol app. In both Sales & CostCenter, I use *DESTINATION_APP (both in default logic, and in a batch-mode logic) to post the values to Consol. All of this works fine.
I also need the currency conversion logic in Consol to be triggered automatically, every time there is an update. I use *RUNLOGIC to do this, as the last step of the update.
// From CostCenter -- Run the Consol curr conv
*RUNLOGIC
*APP=CONSOL
*LOGIC=CurrConvCostCenter
*ENDRUNLOGIC
// From Sales -- Run the Consol curr conv
*RUNLOGIC
*APP=CONSOL
*LOGIC=CurrConvSales
*ENDRUNLOGIC
Both of the CurrConv* logic files exist in Consol (and are identical except for a slightly different XDIM_MEMBERSET selection, before *INCLUDE'ing the core CurrConv logic).
There is only this one *RUNLOGIC command in either of the logics -- no nesting, no sequential execution.
My problem: it works perfectly fine from CostCenter, but not from Sales.
I can see in the CostCenter logic debug log the complete CurrConvCostCenter data selections. On the other hand, in the Sales logic debug log, the log ends with the posting of LC values to Consol.
When I remove all the earlier steps from the Sales logic, I can see that the problem is related to the fact that Consol's entity dimension is called "Entity" and in Sales it is "EntitySls".
--> "Invalid Dimension : EntitySls"
I tried referencing the Entity dim as follows (as per the admin guide) -- didn't work.
// From Sales -- Run the Consol curr conv
*RUNLOGIC
*APP=CONSOL
*DIMENSION Entity = %ENTITY_SET%
*LOGIC=CurrConvSales
*ENDRUNLOGIC
--> "Invalid Dimension : EntitySls"
I also tried the following (based on the Destination_App syntax), hoping it was an undocumented savior -- didn't work.
// From Sales -- Run the Consol curr conv
*RUNLOGIC
*APP=CONSOL
*RENAME_DIM EntitySls=Entity
*LOGIC=CurrConvSales
*ENDRUNLOGIC
--> "Invalid Instruction: *RENAME_DIM EntitySls=Entity"
And I can confirm that both CostCenter & Consol use the same "Entity" dimension, so that's why it works in one case and not the other.
Does anyone have a solution?
Regards,
Tim

Answer 1

Thanks for the replies, guys.
Joost, I tried a few more *DIMENSION options (both EntitySls and Entity) and none of these seem to work.
Marcel, that workaround is certainly a creative approach! If it comes to that extreme, I may use this option. However, I did want to include this in the default logic of the Sales app. My other options are either to replace EntitySls with Entity (a pretty massive undertaking at this point -- it'd be nice if this limitation were documented in the admin guide...) or else have the users execute the logic manually as a batch process.
In the meantime, I recreated this in ApShell & filed a message with Support.
What was also odd about this is that, when the ONLY command in the logic file is the RUNLOGIC command, I get an error message about invalid dimension. But when there are other commands (such as *DESTINATION_APP to transfer data from sales to consol), those execute cleanly... and then there's no error message relating to the RUNLOGIC. So it was a bit of a challenge to identify the problem.
I haven't tested this to see what other dimensions have this same limitation. My instict tells me it's only entity/category/time that need to have the same dimension names, but I'll certainly test that before I design another set of apps where I'll want to do this auto-synchronization.
If anyone else has info on that point, I'd be grateful to hear more.
Regards,
Tim