Lawson Insight Technical Documentation


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                            DIMDATAREL FILE

                         Dimension Data Source

The Dimension Data Source Relationship (DIMDATAREL) file contains the member
name that is used for the specified dimension and data source. This member
name is independent of the data source. The information in this file comes
from IA14.1 (Dimension Member Overrides).

REFERENCED BY

IAFM.1

FIELD NAME           DESCRIPTION/VALID VALUES                    UPDATED BY

DDR-APPLIC-NAME      Alpha 8  (Lower Case)
Application Name     The Application Name is the name of the
                     application that describes the database
                     names it contains. This user-defined
                     name can contain up to eight characters.
                     The first letter of the name must be
                     capitalized.

DDR-DATABASE-NAME    Alpha 8  (Lower Case)
Database Name        The Database Name is the name of the
                     database that is stored within the OLAP
                     application. Each application may
                     contain more than one database. This
                     user-defined name can contain up to
                     eight characters. The first letter of
                     the name must be capitalized.

DDR-USER-DIM-NAME    Alpha 50  (Lower Case)
User Dim Name        The User Dimension Name is the name
                     associated with the dimension in the
                     data mart outline. This user-defined
                     name can contain up to 50 alphanumeric
                     characters. For example, you might name
                     a dimension Fiscal Year or Organization.


DDR-DATA-LOAD-NAME   Alpha 12  (Lower Case)
Data Load Name       The Data Source Name field contains the
                     unique name for the source containing
                     the data values you are loading. You can
                     define multiple data sources for a
                     single data mart. Examples of data
                     sources are programs or rules files.
                     This user-defined name can contain up to
                     12 characters of any kind.

DDR-MEMBER-NAME      Alpha 50  (Lower Case)
Member Name          The Member Name field is an override
                     member name for data mart dimensions
                     with no association to a budget
                     dimension.

                         DIMDATAREL FILE INDEX

NAME      KEY FIELDS    DESCRIPTION / SUBSET CONDITION           USED IN

DDRSET1   APPLIC-NAME   KeyChange
          DATABASE-NAME
          USER-DIM-NAME
          DATA-LOAD-NAME

DDRSET2   APPLIC-NAME   KeyChange                                IAFM.1
          DATABASE-NAME
          DATA-LOAD-NAME
          USER-DIM-NAME