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Overview

This tutorial covers how to use Batch Client to create and deploy Planning applications.

Batch Client enables you to automate Planning administrative processes such as creating applications and loading

metadata.

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Scenario

You are the Planning administrator at your company and your team has asked you to create and deploy Planning

applications for testing. You are pressed for time, so you use Batch Client to automatically create and deploy

Planning applications in Performance Management Architect.

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Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial, you should:

1. Install Performance Management Architect.2. Have administrative access to Planning.3. Have administrative access to Performance Management Architect.

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Preparing to Use Batch Client

To prepare to create applications, perform the following steps:

1

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View the script that you want to use to create test Planning applications. You must verify that the script is complete

and uses the correct syntax.

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Log on to Workspace.

3.

Select Administer> Application Library to display Application Library.

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In Application Library, view existing Performance Management Architect applications. In this case, only one

Planning application is displayed.

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Creating Applications

To create applications, perform the following steps:

1

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Open a command prompt, and change the directory

to C:\Hyperion\products\Foundation\BPMA\EPMABatchClient. This is the default directory for Batch Client.

For more information on how to create Batch Client scripts, refer to the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance

Management Architect, Fusion Edition 11.1.1, Batch Client User's Guide.

2Enter the create application creation command and execute the application creation script. In this case, the script

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.was validated and the application was successfully created.

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Check the EPMABatchClientResults log file to verify that the application was successfully created. The file is located

in the default directory, C:\Hyperion\products\Foundation\BPMA\EPMABatchClient\output.

4.

Verify that the application appears in Application Library. In this case, the PLAN3 Planning application is now

displayed.

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Deploying Applications

To deploy applications, perform the following steps:

1

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View the script that you want to use to deploy applications. You must verify that the script is complete and uses the

correct syntax. In this case, you will deploy the PLAN3 Planning application.

For more information on how to create Batch Client scripts, refer to the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance

Management Architect, Fusion Edition 11.1.1, Batch Client User's Guide.

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Open a command prompt, enter the deploy application command, and execute the deploy application script. In this

case, the script was validated and the application was successfully deployed.

3.

Check the EPMABatchClientResults log file to verify that the application was successfully deployed. The file is

located in the default directory, C:\Hyperion\products\Foundation\BPMA\EPMABatchClient\output.

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In Workspace, select Navigate > Administer> LibraryJobConsole.

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In Library Job Console, verify that the application was successfully deployed.

6.

In Application Library, verify that the application is now deployed.

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Select Applications > Planning > [Planning Application] to verify that the Planning application is now available

for testing.

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Summary

In this tutorial, you learned how to:

Prepare to use Batch Client

Create applications

Deploy applications

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