Monthly Archives: February 2018

Dodeca Dynamic Build Example & Walkthrough

Today I’m going to walk through a multi-faceted Dodeca example that shows off several different concepts and techniques. We tend to conceptualize Dodeca applications and solutions in terms of making Essbase even better and today’s example is a perfect example of how we do that.

Think about it this way: your organization spends an enormous amount of time designing the perfect cube – the proper dimensionality, formulae, calc scripts, data, and more. Often, the cube serves multiple units or departments and they each have their preferred way of looking at things: hierarchies, views, and more. On the developer/Essbase side of things the functionality is solid and feature-rich. But there may be compromises on the user/interface side of things. This is where Dodeca and the example I’m walking through today really shine. It’s a practical example of how Dodeca can make Essbase better by creating a highly focused and tailored experience for the user. Continue Reading…

PBCS Scripting with Groovy using the PBJ REST API Library

I was talking to a colleague the other day that wants to do some scripting with PBCS using Groovy. Of course, since PBCS has a REST API, we can do scripting with pretty much any modern language. There are even some excellent examples of scripting with PBCS using Groovy out there.

However, since Groovy runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), we can actually leverage any existing Java library that we want to – including the already existing PBJ library that provides a super clean domain specific language for working with PBCS via its REST API. To make things nice and simple, PBJ can even be packaged as an “uber jar” – a self-contained JAR that contains all of its dependency JARs. This can make things a little simpler to manage, especially in cases where PBJ is used in places like ODI.

For this example I’m going to take the PBJ library uber jar, add it to a new Groovy project (in the IntelliJ IDE), then write some code to connect, fetch the list of applications, then iterate over those and print out the list of jobs in each application.

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