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Moving essbase outline from On-Prem to Cloud (OAC) works

I am part of the EPM competency at my organization and I often get pulled in to few of the discussions. There was one instance this week where I was pulled in to a meeting for a simple yet typical problem

Problem statement
Client had an Essbase ASO application that was migrated to Oracle Analytics Cloud and was not used for a long time. Recently, they have loaded the data and started validating. There is a currency conversion process which is not producing any results. They wanted to check what got changed / what was missed. Unfortunately, they only had the OTL and the data files and they do not have any on-prem instance where they could easily open the OTL in EAS.

We had a lab instance where we opened the outline and figured out that the Entity dimension is missing the UDA's. Now, we wanted an easy way to get the UDA's so that we can make the change very quick

There was no way that you could view an OTL file and reached out asking how can we extract the dimension from the OTL so they could make the change

Couple of things we tried

  • I had Razza Outline extractor but for some reason it gives a read violation error on ASO outlines. Ruled Out
  • I created a sample app in our lab environment. used the DBX tool to export it to workbook and shared it

This got me thinking. Essbase Cloud is just any essbase. Why can't we create an app.db and just copy over the outline. There would be version differences but at the end, it worked out very well without any issues

Sometimes, the simple things miss from our mind. Glad that it all worked out...

Happy Learning!!!




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