You known what they say? Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Creating blocks with DATACOPY is only the second slowest way you can do it. Do you want to know how to create a calculation using a faster performing technique to create blocks while calculating the members in those blocks?
Read moreThere are benefits to moving to Hybrid, but there are also some challenges. The content of this post is not around the pros and cons, but the fact that you can upgrade your environment to use it. If you find it isn’t for you, you can “downgrade” back to BSO. The flexibility provides everybody the ability to try it.
Read moreMost of us know that there is a button in the calc rule editor that allows us the ability to select a smart list and the smart list entry. It will add something [[smartlist name.smartlist entry]]. If this is new to you, what it does is replace reference the smart list and replaces it with the numeric value that exists in Essbase. The beauty of this is that it is dynamic, so if the smart list is changed in any way, you don’t have to go into your rules and replace change the index values for the smart list entries to match. Guess what, there are more!
Read moreNobody will argue that Oracle Support is a word class experience. Like it or not, the service is here to support thousands and individuals can get lost in the process. If you navigate the process correctly, you can get results. Read more
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There are a ton of reasons to convert a planning load file to an Essbase load file. Maybe you are migrating a file from one environment to another, or simple want to load the file faster, but there are reasons to use the Essbase format. Read more
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I love my Mac and I am getting really close to not needing my Windows VM. I don’t think Smartview for Office 365 is going to be a replacement for the Windows version in my lifetime, but that is the only thing really making me keep my VM current. Read more
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Changing application settings was always a little bit of a pain with an on-premise Planning application. It was a time intensive task of recreating the application, artifact groups at a time. If you were a little bit of a risk taker, you might have figured out that there were fields in the relational repository that could be updated. Is there an easy way to do this with PBCS? Read more
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I had a great question today so challenge accepted! A reader asked if it was possible to run a data export and have the system date in the file name. The answer is very simply, yes. I don’t have any content around the question, so I will answer it in two ways. Read more
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I had a very interesting thing happen today that tripped me up. When loading data to a PBCS database through Planning (not as an Essbase file), I had two types of errors. I have never seen this before and this could cause some serious heartburn for administrators and possibly waste a ton of time trying to resolve. So, I am sharing for the sake of saving somebody some effort. Read more
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If you have used Smart Pushes, you have undoubtedly run into security issues. The PBCS development team is working on a way to bypass this, but there is no release date. If you haven’t run into this, you probably have and didn’t know it. Here is the issue. Read more
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