Lawson Insight Technical Documentation


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AC87

AC87.1 - Dimension Definition

Use AC87.1 (Activity Data Mart Setup) to define Activity Management
parameters for information you want to transfer to the Activity data mart for
reporting.

You can transfer activity, account category, organization, year, period,
amounts, and budgets. Each section consists of a dimension name and optional
member prefix. The dimension name is used to identify Activity Management
information in the data mart. The member prefix for dimensions are not unique.
For example, define a member prefix if you have an activity 1000 and an
account category 1000. The member prefix makes the two dimensions unique in
the data mart.

Before you can define activity dimension information, you must use IA10.1
(Data Mart Manager) to define the application name, database name, select AC
in the application type field, and use the server name field to identify the
IP address for the server you currently store Activity Management information
on.

You should define three profiles in IA11.1 (Information Transfer Profiles).
Use Outline Build to load the Dimension Name and Member Prefixes, Data Values
Load to load balances, and Calculation to update information that has changed
since the last time you loaded data.

Run IA120 (Data Mart Load) to load the data into the data mart for each
profile.

Updated Files

    ACIADIM    - This is the main file updated by this program.  It stores all
                 of the dimensions parameters.

    ACIAMBR    - This is another main file updated by this program. It holds
                 all of the valid values for year, year variance, period, budget
                 and budget variance members.

    GLIADIM    - This file is updated with the parameters for the Organization
                 dimension.  This dimension is owned by GL, so the parameters
                 are stored in a GL file.

    GLIAMBR    - This file is updated if the Organization dimension is also
                 defined with accounting unit views.

    MEMBER     -

    OLAPDBM    - This program references this file to validate whether or not
                 the application type has been assigned to the OLAP database.

    OLAPDIM    - This program updates the OLAPDIM data file with the dimensions
                 that are defined.


Referenced Files

    ACACTGRP   - This file validates the activity group.

    ACACTIVITY -

    ACRPTGRP   - This file validates the activity group collection.

    ACRPTGRPX  - This file also validates the activity group collection.

    APPLICTYPE - This file validates the application name.

    GLADDRESS  - This file validates the GL company and accounting unit.

    GLCGCPY    - This file validates the GL company.

    GLCHART    - This file is referenced in a common routine.

    GLNAMES    - This file provides the accounting unit name.

    GLSYSTEM   - This file is referenced in a common routine.

    MXVIEWHDR  - This file validates the activity and accounting unit views.


AC87.2 - Nulls

Use AC87.2 (Periods) to define the periods you want to include in the
dimension. Each period is identified by a member name. For example, assign
member name January to identify information from your calendar for period 1
defined in AC00.2 (Calendar). The member name is used to identify information
within a dimension.

Updated Files

    ACIAMBR    -


Referenced Files

    ACIADIM    -


AC87.3 - Budgets

Use AC87.3 (Budgets) to define the budgets you want to include in the
dimension. Each budget is identified by a member name. For example, assign
member name Annual Budget to include information from budget 1 defined in
AC20.2 (Activity Budget). The member name is used to identify information
within a dimension.

Updated Files

    ACIAMBR    -


Referenced Files

    ACIADIM    -


AC87.4 - Budget Variances

Use AC87.4 (Budget Variance) to compare values from one budget with values
from another budget. You can compare Budget to Actuals or Budget to Budget and
view the difference between budgets in amounts or percentage.

If you select to compare Budget to Actuals, you compare the budget values
with the actual values for one budget. The Budget to Budget options compares
values for two different budgets.

Updated Files

    ACIAMBR    -


Referenced Files

    ACIADIM    -


AC87.5 - Year Variances

Use AC87.5 (Year Variance) to compare values from one year with values from a
different year. The value could be amounts, units, or currency depending on
the dimensions being processed. You can view the difference between years in
amounts or a percentage.

Updated Files

    ACIAMBR    -


Referenced Files

    ACIADIM    -


AC87.6 - Currency

Use AC87.6 (Currency) to define the currency codes you want to include in the
dimension. Each currency code is identified by a member name. For example,
assign member name Activity Group Base Currency to currency USD. The member
name is used to identify information within a dimension.

Updated Files

    ACIAMBR    -


Referenced Files

    ACIADIM    -

    CUCODES    -


AC87.7 - Years

Use AC87.7 (Years) to define the years you want to include in the dimension.
Each year is identified by a member name. For example, assign member name 1998
Fiscal Year to include information from  your calendar year 1998 defined in
AC00.2 (Calendar). The member name is used to identify information within a
dimension.

Updated Files

    ACIAMBR    -


Referenced Files

    ACIADIM    -


INVOKED Programs

    IFOB
    IFSG