Suppression other than zero

Question

Currently using old version 4.2 and I'm fairly new to EVDRE having always used EVGTS etc.
I'm trying to clean up our existing account dimension by searching for accounts that have a zero value.  I know of course you can use zero suppression to suppress records with zero, but in this case the only records I want to show are those with a zero value.  I've tried typing into the suppression area things like <>0, or <>"" but I'm not having any luck.
Any suggestions on how to attack this?  Thanks.

Answer 1

Mike,
I guess that you are trying to find all accounts that have never been used with the purpose of removing them from the account dimension.
If this is the case, then I would do it a little bit different, I would create a list directly in SQL. You can do it as follow:
- perform a full optimize with compress database
- then go the SQL and execute the following sql statements (Please make a backup of the sql database or at least the tblfact<appname> table)
- delete from tblfact<appname> where signeddata=0  (there are some versions of BPC around where the optimize doesn't remove the zero values)
- select id from mbraccount where calc='N' and id not in (select account from tblfact<appname>)
- this should now give you a list of all the basemember accounts that are not used
Please change the word account for the exact dimensionname of which you want to verify.
Hope this helps,
Alwn