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Click on the Areas tab to link members between the target and the source.On this screen, you can add data selection information in three different methods that we describe here: i Use me

3 Click on the Areas tab to link members between the target and the source.

On this screen, you can add data selection information in three different

methods that we describe here:

i) Use member selection tool: If you double-click on the Source

heading, or the Target heading you will see the Area Mapping

Member Selection screen where you can select the source outline

members and the target database outline members for which you

want to map together

ii) Use text editor: In the text editor screen, you can type in the source

or target member names You can also select the Show Cell Count

checkbox which will help you validate your database outline

selections by allowing you to verify matching cell counts between

the source and target database outlines Verifying that the cell counts match is how Essbase determines you have correctly defined the slice

of data that is to be used by the source and target databases If the cell counts do not match there is reason to believe you have a data

mismatch and will need to re-examine your data mappings

iii) Use inline editing: Inline editing allows you to enter more than one

member name to map between the source and target members as

shown in the following screenshot:

4 On the Mappings tab you can mention the member name if the outline

contains different member names or the same member name with different

names The source and the target members can be defined in this screen

5 After you have completed the four steps to set up a partition definition,

you can click on the Validate button If you have successfully set up your

partition you will see a message box saying your partition is valid and you

can then save the partition If there is an error it will prompt you with an

error message as shown in the following screenshot:

The error message in the previous screenshot says that the area mappings are

incomplete You must go back and click on the Areas tab and correct the error

by ensuring you have matching source and target partition definitions and

then you can click on the Save button If there are no errors the partition will

then be saved and you will be able to make use of the partitions To create a

Replicated partition or a Linked partition you would follow these same steps.

Analytic server configuration file

This is the big one! The essbase.cfg file is where most of your advanced techniques will come into play The essbase.cfg file is an ASCII text file and can be edited

A word to the wise:

Always make a backup copy of the essbase.cfg file before you make any changes to it The essbase.cfg file is a critical system file used by the Essabse analytic server, and there are entries in there that affect whether the service will start or not Just in case

First of all, there are literally dozens of optional statements that can be used in the

essbase.cfg file as shown in the screenshot below However, do not be alarmed,

if you do not have each of the available statements represented in the essbase.cfg

file As usual, Essbase has a default setting for almost all of them

That is quite an impressive list of configuration settings You may even recognize

some of them based upon our earlier discussions Keep in mind that the essbase

cfg file can contains settings that have no real effect on system performance

management, but they do set configurations for other aspects of system control

The proper syntax and use of each statement can be found in the Essbase Technical Reference, but we will show you a few of the more important ones.

Following we have an example of an actual essbase.cfg file As you can see, you

can place comments anywhere in the file by beginning the line with a semi-colon

Multiple comment lines require each line to begin with a semi-colon Statement

lines are simply the statement itself, followed by a space, then the parameter The

statement line itself does not need to be terminated by a period or semi-colon as

other scripts in Essbase need to

Although it does not say this is mandatory anywhere in the Essbase documentation,

we have always kept the statement entries in the essbase.cfg file all uppercase so

there is no confusion as to what character is what

; +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

; Begin Essbase configuration file for the ESSCAR server

;

; Dynamic calc support for the ESSCAR application

; due to large numbers of members being dynamically calculated

DYNCALCCACHEONLY ESSCAR FALSE

DYNCALCCACHEWAITFORBLK ESSCAR FALSE

;

; Sets the max number of error rows to be written from

; any single data load or process

DATAERRORLIMIT 5000

;

; Allows the use of DIRECT I/O when possible

DIRECTIO TRUE

;

; Sets the number of blocks locked by a database calculation

; and corresponds to the setting in the calc script itself

CALCLOCKBLOCKHIGH 50000

CALCLOCKBLOCKDEFAULT 30000

CALCLOCKBLOCKLOW 10000

;

; Sets the delay time and number of retries allowed for a connection

; to the analytic server

NETDELAY 2000

NETRETRYCOUNT 4000

;

; Allows the use of a database calculator cache

CALCCACHE TRUE