The clients have spoken and Oracle has listened!
When I first blogged about Essbase 19c being available, I mentioned it was only BYOL (bring your own license) and mused that I would expect that to change. Later I heard that Essbase going-forward was...
View ArticleEssbase 19c MaxL issue
Recently, I was working on an Essbase 19c project and ran into an issue with MaxL that did not occur in any of my OAC instances. The issue was when I would submit a long running MaxL process, at...
View ArticleIs the rise and fall of OLAP really the end of it?
I recently saw a blog post by Cedric Chin on the Holistics Blog titled The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube. In the post Mr. Chin gives a good description of what OLAP is and how it arose. It is a good...
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Making Smart View Smarter
I have been working on cloud products for a while now, for multiple clients and in multiple instances. My list of private connections was getting out of hand and I really didn;t like having to search...
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Creating Encrypted Keys for Essbase using the OCI CLI
In the latest release of Marketplace 19c we are now required to encrypt three keys used in the install process: The Essbase password, the Confidential Application secret and the Database password. I...
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using substitution variables in load rules in the "Cloud"
  Welll, I have not figured out what to call Essbase now when it is generically in either on Oracle Analytics Cloud (AOC) or in Oracle Cloud infrastructure(OCI), so for the simplicity in this article,...
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Creating Text List in 19c
 I have the need, the need for speed. This applies to so many things. In my case, I needed to build a number of text lists in Essbase 19c. I did not feel like adding hundreds of entries through the UI....
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Using stored procedures in Essbase Drill through
 And they said it could not be done. And then they didn’t. What am I talking about? Using a stored procedure inside a data source to pull data for a drill through report. I have to thank Ashish...
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Essbase 21c its the little things in life that make me happy
 As I go through looking at my recently installed Essbase 21c instance, I am noticing a lot of differences. Some are major and the product team has posted some pretty good videos HERE,, but there are a...
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Connecting Oracle Analytics Desktop to Essbase 19c
 I had a client the other day want to Connect from Oracle Analytics Desktop to their Essbase 19c instance (and from Power BI) but when they tied they were getting a number of different errors about not...
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Installing Essbase 21c on Marketplace
 I'm the first to admin I don't know my NIC from my VPN, I'm not an infrastructure person, never claimed to be, never wanted to be. With that said, I decided to install Essbase21c on Marketplace. I...
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Connecting Essbase Users
 Just a quick post here. Did you know there is a place to get your Essbase questions answered? It is Oracle's Customer Connect and it is currently under utilized, but it is monitored by Essbase...
View ArticleI sql you - Drill through Sql details
 Just a short post today. I was helping a fellow consultant yesterday who was having issues with a Drill Through not working in Essbase 21c Marketplace. If he selected a single member from the cube, he...
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Load rule improvments in Essbse 21.2
 While others are touting the Federated Partitions as the best thing in the recent Essbase 21.2 patch, it should be noted that it is only applicable to OCI Cloud marketplace installations. While I...
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Load rule improvments in Essbse 21.2 (part 2 Data Loads)
 If you have not read part one of this post o n 21.2 Load rule improvements, it would be wise to do so. You can find it HERE. it talks about the general connectivity to multiple sources. I won;t repeat...
View ArticleEssbase 21.3 has been released
In the latest exciting news, Essbase 21.3 has been released today. This release is for the independent version (your data center). The Marketplace (Cloud) version will be available soon. The Big thing...
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IAM is the new IDCS
Oracle loves it acronyms and changing them. What I think they love more is changing how Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)Â works. he latest is a change from Identity Management Cloud Service (IDCS) to...
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Is EAS all that lite in 21c?
 I have been getting a lot of questions about Essbase Administration Services (EAS) lite in 21c and what it can and can't do. This blog will attempt to shed some light (as opposed to Lite) on the...
View ArticleUsing Datasoures based rules in MaxL
 This will be a short post about how to use Rules files (either Dimension build or Data load) from within MaxL. If we look at the documentation for the import command; it has information on file based...
View Articlesetting variables with quotes in them
 Dear reader, I writing this post because every time I need to programmatically set a variable with quotes around it (Like a date or a member name with a space) I have to look it up to remember how to...
View ArticleEssbase EssCLI Session Expired Please log in
 This will be a short post about a problem I encountered and the resolution. A client had just been upgraded to Essbase 21.4 from 21.3 on OCI and the automated backup script we created using EssCLI...
View ArticleA semi-ending and semi-beginning
 It has been over 30 years that I have been in the Essbase space and have had a wonderful time learning and helping others. For 14 of those years I have been with interRel that became a part of Argano....
View ArticleNew options in Essbase 21c LcmExport command
 The other day I was showing a client the LcmExport utility and noticed there are a few new options in it. (I saw it in 21.4, I'm not sure if it is there in 21.3. I looked at the embedded help on the...
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Smart View has gotten smarter
 Smart View 32.1 was recently released and has some nice features included in it. My favorite is the new freeze frames feature. I know what you are saying, you could already do this in Smart View using...
View ArticleApparently 80 characters is not enough
Even I learn new things that are interesting, at least to me and a subset of the nerds. This is a post on something I find amusing and others might as well. I'm working on a project at a client...
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