Time Stamp on MAXL Export File

Question

I use MAXL to export data from our Essbase cube. Is there a way to add a time stamp to the filename?

Answer 1

I've never been able to do this directly through MaxL. If someone out there knows a way, please share.<BR><BR>The way I do this is by using DOS to rename the file after MaxL has exported it.<BR><BR>So assume you have a MaxL script 'test.mxl' with the following code in it:<BR><BR>login user password on 'localhost';<BR>export database zTest.PandL all data to data_file 'zTestX.txt';<BR>exit;<BR><BR>Then you have your .bat file that calls your MaxL script and in the .bat file you have the following code:<BR><BR>essmsh D:\\MaxL\Test\Test.mxl<BR>ren D:\Hyperion\Essbase\App\zTestX.txt zTest%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%-%date:~10%.txt<BR><BR><BR>''The first line calls the MaxL script and upon completion runs the second line which renames the file and adds the date stamp to it.<BR><BR>Don't ask me how to change the date format, I picked up the rename code from someone else. Although, by playing around with it, You can probably get it to look the way you want.<BR><BR>Of course all of this assumes you are using Windows 2000 server. It should work the same in 2003, not sure about NT. You're on your own if it's UNIX, but the same principles should apply, you just need to figure out the code for a Unix command line to do a file rename.<BR><BR><BR>Best of luck.