Steve Simon State Street Corporation Getting Your Core FOCUS Onto Financial Reporting Language

During this hour Discuss a few ‘best practices’ in relationship to Financial Modeling Language or what was called Financial Reporting Language. Emphasis is on creating DYNAMIC query solutions.

During this hour Which means getting down to the source code behind the query. Preparation of temporary or permanent files to hold data extracts. Generating DEFINES on the fly.

During this hour Developing and utilizing ‘hierarchies’ created with FOCUS databases & JOIN with relational database tables. How to populate ‘the hierarchy’ within a FOCUS database from sequential data sources utilizing MODIFY.

During this hour..we shall Develop General Ledger and other financial reports with the assistance of the hierarchy. Modify hierarchies to create reports that require ‘time based’ hierarchies.

During this hour..we shall Learn how WebFOCUS may be used with SQL Server OLAP cubes. Learn how easily reports can be created when their source data comes from an OLAP cube.

So where do we start

Hierarchies & FOCUS reporting

File persistence

-SET &TEMPPATH = TEMPPATH(100,'A100'); -TYPE &TEMPPATH FILEDEF HOLDMAST DIR &TEMPPATH FILEDEF HOLDMAST DIR C:\IBI\APPS\COREFOCUSFRL APP HOLD COREFOCUSFRL FILEDEF SSCGL DISK C:/FUSE2008/SSCGL.foc -RUN

Best Practices

From data source

Extract hierarchy data from source

TABLE FILE CHARTDATA PRINT GL_ACCOUNT GL_ACCOUNT_PARENT GL_ACCOUNT_TYPE GL_ROLLUP_OP GL_ACCOUNT_LEVEL GL_ACCOUNT_CAPTION SYS_ACCOUNT ON TABLE SAVE AS CHARTDATAHOLD1 END

Creating the flat file

Loading the FOCUS file

CREATE FILE SSCGL -RUN MODIFY FILE SSCGL COMPUTE TEMP1/A1 =' '; FIXFORM GL_ACCOUNT/A4 GL_ACCOUNT_PARENT/A4 FIXFORM GL_ACCOUNT_TYPE/A1 FIXFORM GL_ROLLUP_OP/A1 TEMP1 FIXFORM GL_ACCOUNT_CAPTION/A30 FIXFORM SYS_ACCOUNT/A25 COMPUTE GL_ACCOUNT_LEVEL = EDIT(TEMP1); MATCH GL_ACCOUNT ON MATCH REJECT ON NOMATCH INCLUDE DATA ON CHARTDATAHOLD1 END

Data from the fact table

Join SYS_ACCOUNT on the Hierarchy table with SYS_ACCOUNT on the fact table

TABLE FILE FUSEFASB PRINT MARKETVALB TOTALCOSTL TOTALCOSTB BY SYS_ACCOUNT WHERE SYS_ACCOUNT NE ' ' ON TABLE HOLD AS FUSEFASB1 FORMAT FOCUS INDEX SYS_ACCOUNT END

Demo 1

Creating a calendar

Demo 2 Code for calendar

Creating an availability report

Demo 3 ‘Availability Report’

FML & dynamic code generation

I want 6 days No changed my mind I want 21 days!!

Best Practices

So with Dialog Manager

-REPEAT LOOPER4 FOR &I FROM 1 TO &RECS STEP 1 -SET &J= &I +1; -SET &DIFFVAL = IF (&I GE 1) AND (&I LE 9) THEN '0' || EDIT(&I) ELSE EDIT(&I); -SET &DIFFVALJ = IF (&J GE 1) AND (&J LE 9) THEN '0' || EDIT(&J) ELSE EDIT(&J); -IF &I NE 1 THEN GOTO BYPASSME; -SET &STATEMENT = 'WHAT_AM_I/A3 = IF VAL' || &DIFFVAL | ' EQ VAL' || EDIT(&RECS) | ' THEN '; -SET &STATEMENT = &STATEMENT | &APOST || '-' || &APOST | ' ELSE ' ; -WRITE BUYORSELL &STATEMENT -GOTO LOOPER4

We generate the following DEFINE

WHAT_AM_I/A3 = IF VAL01 EQ VAL20 THEN '-' ELSE IF VAL03 GT VAL02 THEN 'B' ELSE IF VAL04 GT VAL03 THEN 'B' ELSE … IF VAL10 GT VAL09 THEN 'B' ELSE IF VAL11 GT VAL10 THEN 'B' ELSE WHAT_AM_I; WHAT_AM_I = IF VAL12 GT VAL11 THEN 'B' ELSE IF VAL13 GT VAL12 THEN 'B' ELSE IF VAL14 GT VAL13 THEN 'B' ELSE …… IF VAL21 GT VAL20 THEN 'B' ELSE WHAT_AM_I;

For 6 days

For 21 days

Demo 4 The ‘Roll Forward’ report

Working with OLAP cubes

SQL Server Analysis Services & Visual Studio 2005

Demo 5 OLAP cubes & WebFOCUS

During this hour..we Discussed a few Financial Modeling Language ‘best practices’. Emphasis was placed on creating DYNAMIC query solutions.

During this hour..we Delved into the source code behind the queries. More fine tuning can be done at code level. Saw how to retain our ‘holdmasts’ and our data extracts. Generated DEFINES on the fly. (Code is now more extensible)

During this hour..we Developed and utilized ‘hierarchies’ created with FOCUS databases and JOINED to relational database tables. Learnt how to populate ‘the hierarchy’ within a FOCUS database from sequential data sources utilizing MODIFY.

During this hour..we Developed a General Ledger and other financial reports with the assistance of the hierarchy. Modified hierarchies to create reports requiring ‘time based’ hierarchies.

During this hour..we have Learnt how WebFOCUS may be used with SQL Server OLAP cubes. Learnt how easily reports can be created when their source data comes from an OLAP cube.

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