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Hey guys, how are you? Continuing the how to integrate PBCS seamlessly using you existing ODI environment series (Part 1 Here), today we’ll talk about PBCS itself.

For us to export or import data from PBCS, we need to prepare our PBCS environment to receive and send all the data we need. Let’s take a look on this.

PBCS has 2 very different interface:

• The regular interface, same as planning
• And the Simplified interface (That planning also have) but in PBCS it’s way more useful

The regular interface is almost exactly like Planning one, but the important thing is that we can do anything we need to configure the environment on it. We need to use the simplified interface.

The simplified interface has some new features like be optimized to a tablet or a smartphone but the main feature we are looking for is the inbox/outbox. The inbox/outbox is the only point of contact with the external word and everything that need to be loaded needs to be uploaded to the inbox first and everything that is extracted from PBCS will be available in the outbox to be downloaded.

Knowing this we’ll need to setup for our design:

• Data and Metadata load
  • Upload the file with the data to the inbox.
  • Create a job to import the data.
  • Execute the job.
• Data and Metadata Export:
  • Create an export job (For data export is possible to create a Business Rules to export the data directly to the inbox folder: /u03/lcm/)
  • Download the files
  • Unzip and import the file with ODI

For Data/metadata load we need first to upload a file to the inbox, then we need to have an import data/metadata job created and finally we need to run the job to load.

The file can be in .zip format that PBCS automatically unzip the file. This is very good since we may move some big files around

For Data/Metadata extract, we need first to create an export job and run it (you can do data export using the business rules, same old dataexport from essbase, and the path to export would be /u02/lcm/), download the file and finally use ODI to unzip it and load it to our tables.

But what are jobs? Jobs are basically templates with information about what you want to do. For example, a data export Job will contain the POV of the data you want to export, and every time you ran the job that POV will be exported.

In the console menu we have everything we need to create and monitoring our jobs. All data Jobs are created clicking in the Actions menu, Export and Import options and to check the job results you can go to inbox/outbox explorer.

And that’s it for today. I hope you guys enjoy and next post we’ll create all the jobs we need. Stay safe and see you soon.

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