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Memory leaking in Contributor

Having problems with your dllhost.exe grabing a huge amount of RAM and going into winter sleep? A real hog he is, that dllhost.exe. CenterStone pointed on Cognoise, that COM+ memory leaking is an accepted Planning bug, and is resolved in 8.1.Well, I didn’t know that, so had to deal with this problem in 7.3 SP3. [...]

Posted 14 November 2006 † ykud § cognos § ep cookbook § tips ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: ,

Send Data and Access Manager

After making “Send Data” macro via ASP we’ve logically stepped on the problem of restricting this macro usage. Logically thinking this macro should be executed only after all data is entered in application (in other variants, data recipients will never be sure that they have the latest variant possible). That’s what I call coordinator problem [...]

Posted 13 October 2006 † ykud § cognos § contributor-only § ep cookbook ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

More on Contrib APs.

It’s more a list of demands for Cognos We need allocation cubes with an elist. There is no other way round the idea of dynamic Contributor applications. Dynamic as Analyst ones — by changing allocations in cube, you change data flow. Ain’t that analytic? What if we use footage as driver for lease costs? Or, [...]

Posted 11 October 2006 † ykud § cognos § contributor-only § large dimensions ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: ,

Some thoughts on new EP implementation concept.

Widely awaiten (by me ) Analyst refactoring did not happen. The problem of having a non-scalable yet very comfortable tool for creating calculation models and analyzing was solved not by enhancing the tool. It was solved by marketing, not R&D. Now Analyst is a “developer tool” and all budgeting process should go through a list [...]

Posted 09 October 2006 † ykud § cognos § contributor-only ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Remote macro execution

Since Analyst and Contrib macros are typically packed into .bat files, remote bat execution is a common task. If you don’t want user to access server via terminal session of some sort, but user still needs to start some administrative task (data transfer, reconciliation or such) remote execution comes into play. There are 3 basic [...]

Posted 04 September 2006 † ykud § BI&CPM § coding ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Tip of day

How can one zero data in EP Contributor Application? By substracting it, using inner links, and allocation cubes. You need to zero those lines? Mark them in allocation cube and substract them from themself. Sign changing? Scale factoк -0,5, por favor.

Posted 27 July 2006 † ykud § cognos § tips ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Contributor-Analyst Dataflow organization

If you are using Contributor-Analyst links I recommend using a such scheme: Create 3 libraries for each Contributor application: 1) skl — for skeleton library, containing only Contributor (Update-packed) links 2) exp — for exporting data from Contributor to Analyst, containing all cubes for export. Elist is substituted to a “real” one. 3) imp — [...]

Posted 17 July 2006 † ykud § cognos § ep cookbook ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , ,