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 Activating and Filling Aggregates 

Use
To use an aggregate for an InfoCube when executing a query, you must first activate it
and then fill it with data.

Prerequisites
You have created or changed an aggregate.

Procedure
1. Select the aggregate that you want to activate and fill.
2. Choose Activate and Fill. The system creates an active version of the aggregate.
System Activity Result
The system creates the tables required by the If the aggregate was activated
aggregate definition in the database. Aggregates successfully, the status display in the
are created according to the same schema as
Status column changes from for a
InfoCubes.
newly create aggregate or for a
An aggregate contains two fact tables and a
number of dimension tables. changed aggregate to .
The table names are derived from the
technical names of the aggregates.

3. Once the aggregate was activated, you must trigger the action to fill the aggregate with data. The
Subsequently Aggregate the Aggregates of an InfoCube dialog box appears.
4. An active aggregate is selected and marked in the Active/Inactive column with an .

If you do not want to fill an aggregate, you can deselect it.

5. Select Fill aggregate. The Execution Time of Aggregation dialog box appears.

Since it can take a long time to build an aggregate from an InfoCube, all the
aggregates are filled in the background.
Note that an aggregate can also read data from a larger aggregate that is already
filled. You can therefore assign data to very compressed aggregates quickly.
6. Define when you want to start the job to fill the aggregate:
now
later

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This takes you to the Time of Subsequent Aggregation dialog box. Enter the date and
time for the background processing.
7. In the Subsequently Aggregate the Aggregates of an InfoCube dialog box, choose Refresh. The
system copies the relevant data to the columns
User who scheduled the aggregate for building,
Date for scheduling the new version of the aggregate
Time for scheduling the new version of the aggregate
Name of the background job
In the column Job Status you have the following display options:
shows that the job of filling the aggregate is currently running.
shows that the job of filling the aggregate is scheduled, but is not running yet.
shows that the job of filling the aggregate was canceled.
To find out about your background jobs for filling aggregates, choose Jobs. You get to the
Simple Job Selection screen.
To view the logs for filling your aggregates, choose Log. The Evaluate Application Log
dialog box appears.

By using the transaction SLG1, you can directly access the application log even if the
job is not canceled. The Evaluate Application Log dialog box appears.
Enter the required data in the following fields:
Field labels Entry
Object RSSM
(Scheduler; Monitor; Tree Callback)
Subobject MON
(Monitor)
Ext. Identif. (External Identification) For displaying all logs:
*InfoCube*
For filling new aggregates:
MON:PROTOCOLL_ACTION-
AGGR2-InfoCube
(For rolling up already existing aggregates:
MON:PROTOCOLL_ACTION-
AGGR1-InfoCube)
Instead of entering InfoCube, enter the
technical name of the desired InfoCube.

8. Choose .
System Activity Result
The system reports all the executed actions in the If the aggregate was filled successfully,
lower right part of the log display. the status display in the column
If you used a variable for the key date in Filled/Switched off, changes from to
an aggregate with time-dependent .
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attributes or hierarchies, the system

evaluates this variable when it fills it and
builds the aggregate on the computed
key date.

To activate and fill a number of aggregates at the same time, select them and choose
Activate and fill.
The system chooses the optimum sequence for filling the aggregates.
i. The large, detailed aggregates are filled first.
ii. The smaller, very compressed aggregates are filled next.
The larger aggregates can therefore be used already when you are still building the
smaller ones.

Result
The active aggregate that is filled with data can be used for reporting. If the aggregate contains data that
is to be evaluated by a query, the query data is read automatically from the aggregate.
You can find more information about the number of records read and the use of an
aggregate in queries in Displaying Aggregates and their Components.
You can roll up new data packages (requests) into the aggregate. For more
information see Rolling up Data into an Aggregate.

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