Dodeca PBCS Connector

Background

The Dodeca PBCS Connector provides integration between Dodeca views and a PBCS/EPM Cloud server. It uses the PBCS REST API to perform data and metadata operations, such as grid retrieves and fetching member information.

Connection Configuration

The PBCS Connector currently only supports using credentials from a native PBCS account (this is a limitation in the PBCS REST API). A future release will add additional support for other user types.

In order to create a PBCS connection in Dodeca, create an Essbase connection as usual. The fields that need to be configured are the following:

Server: The PBCS/EPM Cloud server. This will typically be a server name such as companyname.epm.us-phoenix-1.ocs.oraclecloud.com
Application: The name of the PBCS application, such as Vision
Database: The name of the plan type (cube). The database setting is also used to explicitly define the names of the dimensions in the cube. In order to specify the dimensions, the value of the Database parameter should be in the following format: Plan1?dimensions=Account;Currency;Entity;Period;Scenario;Version;Years. In other words: the name of the plan type/cube, followed by a question mark, the word dimensions, an = symbol, and then the semicolon delimited list of dimensions in the plan. The dimension list is important as it allows the connector to understand the dimensions available without having to reach into other Oracle APIs that may have permissions issues or report the wrong dimension list.
ServletPath: Address to the server running the connector, including protocol and port, such as http://pbcs-connector.example.com:9440.
Username: You will likely want to include the username of a fixed admin or otherwise native user to use for connecting.
Password: You will likely want to include the password of a fixed admin or otherwise native user to use for connecting.

Once the connection details are filled in, save and test the connection. You may now build views that use the PBCS data in a retrieve range.