I thought today we’d look at how executing dynamic SQL with ODI is both simple and effective. I ran into a scenario recently, where I had to make updates to an indeterminate number of tables. The number was indeterminate, but not the names of the tables. The table names were derived from a view, which……
This one’s an oldie and applies to those of us who use Unix/Linux as the operating system for Essbase. If we need to set up SQL loads to Essbase cubes, we have a couple of options, either use OCI connections, or use old school ODBC connections. In most cases, we would use OCI, but as……
Today, I thought we’d look at one of the new features that DRM has rolled out. Version 11.1.2.4.330 allows you to do a lot of cool things. Perhaps my favorite among them, is the ability to perform external operations, whether to web services or to databases. Let’s look at how we can set up external……
Here’s a quick hack, which works on versions 11.1.2.4+. I haven’t had the opportunity to check out earlier versions. I ran into a scenario recently where I had a number of exports that I needed to rename. Now, DRM does not give us the ability to rename objects. It allows us to copy or move……
As we’ve seen in the last post, we have a list of users and their filter names as they exist in Planning. Continuing on, let’s take a look at what the documentation tells us about filters. It’s not evident at first glance, the importance of the section, “as FILTER-NAME”. If you dig one step deeper,……
Today, I thought we’d look at a little proof of concept, in this part 1 of a 2-part series of posts. One of my co-authors and I were trying to figure out how to replicate security from a Planning application to an Essbase cube. Imagine the scenario, where we might have a planning application, for inputs……
This is the last in a series of posts related to deriving metadata from HFM’s backed tables. The earlier posts can be found here and here. It will be a short post and I’ve put it together mainly for the sake of completeness. Today, we will look at the Entity dimension. A quick look at EPMA……
Today’s post is just a quick follow up to the last one, on using HFM dimension tables. The disclaimers from the last post still apply. We will be looking at additional code to generate the dimension extracts from HFM’s Account tables. As mentioned in the last post, the accounts dimension has additional attributes and additional……
I need to preface today’s post with the following disclaimer, “I am not an HFM guy”. I understand it and respect it, but I am not an HFM developer. What I wanted to do today though, was look at how we can extract dimensions from HFM directly. A lot of times, we have to depend on……
I thought I’d do a quick little post on how to use FDM mapping tables to your advantage. To do this, I am taking advantage of the backend SQL tables that support FDM. I was recently given a scenario where I needed to use data mappings to load data into an Essbase reporting application. The……
For this post, I thought I’d take a look at DRM imports. Now we are all familiar with text imports, so I thought I’d look at how DRM imports work against relational tables (a new-ish feature). This is something developers had been asking for a long time. Just like text imports, imports from relational tables……
