TM1 Forum

Hello,

A.) please do not question the origin of following problem

B.) When using "Export as ASCII Data" on a cube with 250 dimensions (each having 26 elements + 1topconsolidation) (please refer to statement A now!) the dialog-box opens as expected. Since I'm not crazy (A) I skip consolidations, rules and blanks. Out of the enormous number of possible cells (somewhere in 10^353 if I'm not mistaken) only the cells with the same index in each dimension have a value (as they follow the scheme DIM001A-DIM250Z they have the ASCII Value of the letter on the corresponding intersection - so on DIM001A-DIM250A is 65) - so it is a very, very sparse cube.
Anyways, after hitting the button for the export a buffer overrun will occur on client side and I need an answer - why does this happen (please refer to A), if you can prevent the overrun - how?

Since TM1 supports 256 dimensions this has to be
1 - some kind of bad setting on client side
2 - 1 but on server (like ignore stupid requests?)
3 - a bug

I'm sure everyone here tried to build a cube that big, right? ;D

thanks,
Lukas

ps.: I hate the "Save" button on this forum, I really, really do...

Sounds like an interesting problem.....

I doubt if anyone has ever tried this and it's very unlikely that Applix have tested it.

Suggest you try using ASCIIOutput in a TI process.

Oh and I hate the save button too, I'm constantly saving posts as drafts...

Cheers,

I hate the save button too for what its worth ....

Suggest you try using ASCIIOutput in a TI process.

Yikes! I wouldn't be wanting to have to write the CellGetN or CellGetS statements for a 250 dim cube.

I agree with Steve, I think you would be unique in having encountered this problem. The structure you describe is not exactly typical for a TM1 model.

I briefly recall a post office in Europe having cubes of 250+ dims..... I will do some digging to see if I can find a name and see if they can offer any help.

Yeah I don't think it would be fun building up the statements in TI, but I think you could use text functions in Excel to write develop them.
Cheers