Thursday, July 20, 2017

Refresh of ASO Plan Type failing while setting up an Alternate Hierarchy in PBCS

I was working on PBCS application where the application had a BSO cube and ASO cube. After some initial setup and dimension creation we were creating an alternate hierarchy in Period dimension. Somehow Cube Refresh was failing for ASO plan type. It seemed that the issue was with the shared member but that was not the problem.

The error message I got for my ASOPlan (cube name) was as follows:

Cube refresh failed with Essbase Cube: ASOPlan, Error code: 1060053, Message:

The message was not clear but the issue was that I had one of the member defined as Ignore in the period hierarchy for ASO. It is suggested that all members must be set as Addition and then it will work (for ASO). This worked for me.

Following is the checklist if you encounter similar issue:
1. Check that the Hierarchy Type of Period Dimension is set to Multiple
2. Check the Hierarchy Type of hierarchies in Period dimension are set to "Stored"
3. Check all the members are set as "Addition" (for ASO)

If the point number 2 from above is not satisfied i.e. if the Hierarchy type is set to "Dynamic" then you may get the following error message:

ASO members with time balance members requires a time dimension to only contain stored hierarchies. Member: <Member name>

After appropriately updating the member / hierarchy, if the issue still persists then try re-creating the alternate hierarchy. I had similar problem post changing the properties and after re-creating the member(s) it worked.

Hope this helps.

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

SmartView - Install Cube Designer for OAC - Oracle Analytics Cloud

Steps to install Cube Designer is quiet simple but even after following all the steps and/or re-installing SmartView I was not able to see the cube designer under Extension tab / window.

For the Cube Designer to appear in the Extension tab / window, I had to first create a private connection to the cloud instance and then it worked.

So, the steps to install Cube Designer,
1. Create a private connection to the cloud instance.
2. From SmartView Tab, Click Options -> Extensions
3. If you see "Cube Designer", then click "Enable"
4. If you do not see the "Cube Designer", then click on the link "Check for Updates, New Installs and Uninstalls". "Cube Designer" should now appear, then click "Enable".

Hope this helps...