This Introduction page includes the following sections:
The Technical Reference is primarily for anyone who needs to:
essbase.cfg
fileThe Technical Reference describes the following commands, functions, and settings:
essbase.cfg
settingsOther documentation discusses the Essbase concepts and operations. See the Information Map for a short description about and a link to each information source.
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This document provides examples based on the Sample and Demo applications provided with the Essbase server software. The Sample application contains three databases: Basic, Interntl, and Xchgrate. The Demo application contains one database: Basic. If, when you connect to the Essbase server, any of the following problems occur, contact your Essbase administrator.
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For ease of access, the Contents tab lists links to the most-used information in the Technical Reference, including topics that list functions, commands, settings, and statements. The top of each topic includes links to other topics that contain relevant information about that subject.
On the Index tab, type a keyword in the entry field near the top of the tab. As you type, the list of keywords moves to match the characters you have typed. From the list, click a keyword or sub keyword to view the information about that topic.
The Search tab provides a full text search for the characters you enter. Searches are not case-sensitive; you can type your search word in uppercase or lowercase characters. You may search for any combination of letters (a-z) and numbers (0-9). Punctuation marks such as the period, colon, semicolon, comma, and hyphen are ignored during a search. Use double quotation marks to group search words together. You cannot search for quotation marks. You can provide Boolean operators or wildcards to customize your searches for better results.
In a Boolean search, you can use the AND, OR, NOT, and NEAR operators to precisely define your search by creating a relationship between search terms.
If no operator is specified, an AND relationship is used. For example, specifying index cache size is equivalent to specifying index AND cache AND size; the search returns a list of topics that contain all of the words specified (index and cache and size), not necessarily in that order.
A search using the OR operator returns topics that include either word specified; for example, index OR cache returns a list of topics that contain either the word, index, or the word, cache, or both.
A search using the NOT operator returns topics that include the first word specified but not the second word specified; for example, index NOT cache returns a list of topics that contain the word, index, but not the word, cache.
A search using the NEAR operator returns topics that include the first word specified within eight words of the second word specified; for example, index NEAR cache returns a list of topics that contain the word, index, within eight words of the word, cache.
The |, &, and ! characters do not work as Boolean operators. You must use OR, AND, or NOT.
In expressions, you can use a question mark or an asterisk to search for one or more characters . For example, when you search for calc*, the search returns a list of topics that contain the words calculation, calculate, calculating, and so forth.
Note: If you are searching for a file name with an extension, group the entire string in double quotation marks; for example, "filename.ext". Without the quotation marks, the period breaks the file name into two separate terms. Since the default operation between terms is AND, the search term, filename.ext, is the logical equivalent to filename AND ext.
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Note: The list-type topics are very long. To print selected information from a long topic, select the text you want to print and use the Selection option in the Print dialog box.
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