If you are 11.1.2.4 and you use ASO Plan Types, you may be aware of a bug that prevents drill-through from working properly. Essentially, I can define drill-through in BSO and everything works fine, but ASO just doesn’t work. You can see the intersection as being available for drill-through, but when you attempt to actually…
If you have a ASO cube where timing is everything or a cube with multiple large data sets, waiting for data loads to process in series can waste valuable time. Luckily, Essbase supports parallel data loads! Sadly…while the documentation for this isn’t bad, it is inaccurate. I’m sure it was accurate a few (or many)…
I needed a break from the Planning repository and recently had a colleague inquire about getting the name of a member as a string value in ASO. This is a relatively simple process, but it occurred to me that when working with strings in Essbase, sometimes it helps to actually see what you are working with….
In the last three days, I’ve had two different people ask me how to do currency conversion in ASO. Procedural calculations in ASO is tricky and the documentation isn’t great (and that’s being very polite to Oracle). So let’s take a look at how to do a simple currency conversion in ASO. First, we’ll need to set…
