Steve SimonState Street Corporationssimon@statestreet.com

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 &TEMPPATHFILEDEF HOLDMAST DIR &TEMPPATHFILEDEF HOLDMAST DIR C:\IBI\APPS\COREFOCUSFRL APP HOLD COREFOCUSFRLFILEDEF SSCGL DISK C:/FUSE2008/SSCGL.foc-RUN

Hierarchy on business server

Create a ‘Flat File’ extract

Load the extract into FOCUS file

Data files joined to hierarchy

Best Practices

From data source

Extract hierarchy data from source

TABLE FILE CHARTDATAPRINTGL_ACCOUNTGL_ACCOUNT_PARENTGL_ACCOUNT_TYPEGL_ROLLUP_OPGL_ACCOUNT_LEVELGL_ACCOUNT_CAPTIONSYS_ACCOUNTON TABLE SAVE AS CHARTDATAHOLD1END

Creating the flat file

Loading the FOCUS file

CREATE FILE SSCGL-RUNMODIFY FILE SSCGLCOMPUTE 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/A30FIXFORM SYS_ACCOUNT/A25COMPUTE GL_ACCOUNT_LEVEL = EDIT(TEMP1);MATCH GL_ACCOUNT ON MATCH REJECT ON NOMATCH INCLUDEDATA ON CHARTDATAHOLD1END

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 TOTALCOSTBBY SYS_ACCOUNTWHERE SYS_ACCOUNT NE ' 'ON TABLE HOLD AS FUSEFASB1 FORMAT FOCUS INDEX SYS_ACCOUNTEND

Demo 1

Creating acalendar

Demo 2Code 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!!

Nothing hardwired

Driven by extract criteria

Dialog Manager

Keep it as simple

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

For 6 days

For 21 days

Demo 4The ‘Roll Forward’

report

Working with OLAP cubes

SQL Server Analysis Services

&Visual Studio 2005

Demo 5OLAP 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.

Thank you!

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