How do I access the nth element in a GAMS set? - indexing

I'm trying some alteration to the DICE2013 model. I define a set of a hundred values and want to access one value for each period t. I.e. if t=5, I want GAMS to return the fifth value in the set cereq.
sets t Time periods (5 years per period) / 1*100 /
cereq list of multipliers /v1*v100/
I tried:
cereq(t)$ord((cereq)=t)
but that causes the program to crash.
How do I have to do this?
Many thanks

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AnyLogic - assign number to agent and use it for calculations

I need help programming a process in AnyLogic.
I want to assign a specific number to an Agent (50%=1,20%=2,30%=3). And later I want to use the number to add to a stock.
For example: if the Agent has the number 3 I want the stock (variable) to go down exaclly this amount.
I tried using a Parameter on the Agent, but I am only able to create a string and with that I can't calculate later…
I would be very happy if anyone knows a solution to the Problem! :)
Here is a simple solution for your case:
set the parameter type to "int"
Assign the initial value according to your probabilities, as below. Note that for numbers 2 and 3, it is a relative probability, given that it was not drawing value 1
Each agent instance will draw a number between 1 and 3 now (50% 1, 20% 2 and 30% 3). Then, you can do your stock adjustments with that param

Can someone explain the following Essbase code: FIX, #relative

Can someone please explain the below Essbase code to me please? This is my first time looking at any Essbase code and I'm getting a bit confused as to what it is actually doing.
FIX(&Mth, &Yr, &Version,
"Sector1","Sector2", #relative("Source Code",0), #relative("Channel", 0) )
FIX("AccountNo","DepNo")
DATACOPY "1A11"->"A-500" TO "1BCD"->"C-800";
ENDFIX
ENDFIX
From what I have googled the following is my understanding:
Creates a new command block which restricts database calculations to this subset.
Passes the following members into the command to be used:
Mth
Yr
Version
Returns the following fields:
Sector1
Sector2
returns the 0-level members of the Source Code member - meaning it returns the members of the Total Source Code without children (no other dimensions)
returns the 0-level members of the Channel member - meaning it returns the members of the Channel without children (no other dimensions)
Begins a new command block and passes the following members into the command to be used:
AccountNo
DepNo
Copies the range of cells 1A11, A-500 over to the range 1BCD, C-800
The above is what I understand from the oracle documents on each of the functions, but I can't actually figure out what is happening.
Welcome to the world of Essbase; it can be a little daunting at first especially if you're new to the concept of multidimensionality. You are on the right track regarding analyzing your calc script.
Try not to think of the FIX statement as a command block, per se. A FIX is used to select a portion of cells in the cube. Every single piece of data in your cube has a particular address that consists of one member from every dimension, plus the actual data value itself. For instance, a cube with the dimensions Time, Year, Scenario, and Location might have a particular piece of data at Jan->2018->Actual->Washington. The number of possible permutations of data in a cube can quickly get very large. For instance, if you're organization has 4 years of data, 12 months in a year, 100 locations, 10000 accounts, 3 versions, and 10 departments, you are talking about 4 * 12 * 100 * 10000 * 3 * 10 = 1.4 billion different potential addresses (cells) of data – and that's actually fairly small for a cube, as they tend to grow much larger.
That said, FIX statements are used to narrow down the scope of your calculation operation, rather than operating on the ENTIRE cube (all 1.4 billion cells in my hypothetical example), the FIX essentially restricts the calculation to cells that match certain criteria you specify. In this case, the first FIX statement restricts the calculation to a particular month, yr, version, sectors, sources, and channels. Note that the ampersand on Mth, Yr, and Version means that a substitution variable is to be used. This means your server or cube has a substitution variable value set, such as the variable Mth = "Jan" and Yr = "FY2018" and Version might be "Working" or "Final" or something similar. I would guess that Sector1 and Sector2 are possibly two different members from the same dimension. #RELATIVE("Source Code", 0) is a function that finds the level-0 members (leaf/bottom-level members in a dimension, that is, members that do not have children below them) of the specified member.
In other words, the first FIX statement is narrowing the scope of the calculation to a particular month in a particular year in a particular version (as opposed to all months, all years, all versions), and for that particular month/year/version (for either Sector1 or Sector2) it is fixing on all of the level-0/bottom/leaf members in Source Code and Channel dimensions.
The next FIX statement just further narrows the current scope of cells to calculate on in addition to the outer FIX. It's not uncommon to see FIX statements nested like this.
Lastly we get to the part where something actually happens: the DATACOPY. In the given FIX context, this DATACOPY command is saying that for EACH cell in the current FIX, copy values from the source to the destination. DATACOPY is a little more straightforward when it's just DATACOPY "Source" TO "Target" as opposed to using the inter dimensional operator (->)... but this is perhaps more easily understood in terms of the time/year dimensions. For example, imagine the data copy was written like this:
DATACOPY "FY2018"->"Dec" TO "FY2019"->"Jan";
In this DATACOPY I'd be telling Essbase that for the given FIX context I would like to copy values from the end of the year (data values where the year is FY2018 AND the month is Dec) to the beginning of the next year (data values where the year is FY2019 AND the month is Jan). Your DATACOPY is working in a similar fashion, but using cost centers or something else. It all just depends on how the cube is setup.

Calculating the average percentage of a bunch of figures in Excel?

Basically, I'm trying to calculate the total average outage hours of a worksheet I'm working with, however I'm trying to have it further broken down.
Here is a picture of the Excel Sheet:
Excel Calculations
(Not allowed to add embedded pictures yet :( - 10 reputation needed, sorry!)
Pretty much, I'm trying to calculate what the average up-time is for the month, by calculating the average downtime and then subtracting it from 100.00%
What I've got works, but I'm trying to workout whether the Outage Hours column can be scrapped, and the total can be calculated with perhaps just a larger formula.
Here is a link to the spreadsheet: https://www.dropbox.com/s/msowjndootd2hh2/Spreadsheet%20Calculations.xlsx?dl=0
Thanks in advance!
Just to clarify, you're looking for the result from the second column without having to include the second column, correct?
Since the second column is just the remaining difference (from 1.00) of the first column, then to get the result, all you have to do is take the remaining difference for the maximum overall to the total sum of the first column.
Meaning (assuming 12 months)...:
=12-SUM(B4:B15)
(Substitute 12 for however many months to be summed)
EDIT: OP is looking for =AVERAGE(B4:B15)

Two Dimensional Diagram with aggr function

I'm having a very curious Problem in QlikView.
I have a number of readouts from a Database which show certain amounts of time in a different state.
In that table there are 49 variables that describe the state, there are 7 levels of i.e the SOC and seven states of the Temperature.
i.e the one of the fields could be named: SOC1_T1 or SOC2_T1 and so on...
So what i get is a table full of readouts in which every i have an specific id for the object, the state of the variables and an age. There are multiple entries per Object.
What i want to do is to plot a two dimensional diagram over all the states so i get SOC over Temperatur Histogram(Average of the maximum (or newest) value of every object).
I tried creating to Dynamic (or syntethic) Dimensions (ValueLoop(1,7) and ValueLoop(1,8).
In the formulas i reffered to them with
=If(ValueLoop(1,7) = 1 and ValueLoop(1,8) = 1,
(avg(aggr(FirstSortedValue (SOC1_T1
, -age), id)) * 100))
and created 49 Formulas with each state variable output.
Problem now is:
It only shows the first entry. I can replace the whole expression in the if condition with a specific number (100) and get a result. I also plotted the inner expression into a Listbox and checked wheter the result is not null.
As soon as I delete the aggr function and just take the AVG over everything (which is not what i want). Everything works fine. When i turn back to aggr, only the first one is shown.
Doesnt help by the way when i delete one of the dimensions, this doesnt work one dimensional either.
Any ideas or workarounds?
Greetings
Julian

Aggregation of an MDX calculated measure when multiple time periods are selected

In my SSAS cube, I've several measures defined in MDX which work fine except in one type of aggregation across time periods. Some don't aggregate (and aren't meant to) but one does aggregate but gives the wrong answers. I can see why, but not what to do to prevent it.
The total highlighted in the Excel screenshot below (damn, not allowed to include an image, reverting to old-fashion table) is the simplest case of what goes wrong. In that example, 23,621 is not the grand total of 5,713 and 6,837.
Active Commitments Acquisitions Net Lost Commitments Growth in Commitments
2009 88,526 13,185 5,713 7,472
2010 92,125 10,436 6,837 3,599
Total 23,621 23,621
Active Commitments works fine. It is calculated for a point in time and should not be aggregated across time periods.
Acquisitions works fine.
[Measures].[Growth in Commitments] = ([Measures].[Active Commitments],[Date Dimension].[Fiscal Year Hierarchy].currentMember) - ([Measures].[Active Commitments],[Date Dimension].[Fiscal Year Hierarchy].prevMember)
[Measures].[Net Lost Commitments] = ([Measures].[Acquisitions] - [Measures].[Growth in Commitments])
What's happening in the screenshot is that the total of Net Lost Commitments is calculated from the total of Acquisitions (23,621) minus the total of Growth in Commitments (which is null).
Aggregation of Net Lost Commitments makes sense and works for non-time dimensions. But I want it to show null when multiple time periods are selected rather than an erroneous value. Note that this is not the same as simply disabling all aggregation on the time dimension. The aggregation of Net Lost Commitment works fine up the time hierarchy -- the screenshot shows correct values for 2009 and 2010, and if you expand to quarters or months you still get correct values. It is only when multiple time periods are selected that the aggregation fails.
So my question is how to change the definition of Net Lost Commitments so that it does not aggregate when multiple time periods are selected, but continues to aggregate across all other dimensions? For instance, is there a way of writing in MDX:
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[Net Lost Commitments]
AS (iif([Date Dimension].[Fiscal Year Hierarchy].**MultipleMembersSelected**
, null
, [Measures].[Acquisitions] - [Measures].[Growth in Commitments]))
ADVthanksANCE,
Matt.
A suggestion from another source has solved this for me. I can use --
iif(iserror([Date Dimension].[Fiscal Year Hierarchy].CurrentMember),
, null
, [Measures].[Acquisitions] - [Measures].[Growth in Commitments]))
CurrentMember will return an error when multiple members have been selected.
I didn't understand much of the first part of the question, sorry...but at the end I think you ask how to detect if multiple members from a particular dimension are in use in the MDX.
You can examine either of the two axes as a string, and use that to form a true/false test. Remember you can use VBA functions in Microsoft implementations of MDX.
I suggest InStr(1, SetToStr(StrToSet("Axis(1)")), "whatever") = 0 as a way to craft the first argument of your IIF.
This gets the set of members on axis number one, converts it to a string, and looks to see if a certain string is present (it returns the position of that string within the other). Zero means not found (so it returns true). You may need to use axis zero instead, or maybe check both.
To see if multiple members from the same dimension were used, the test string above would have to be more complicated. You want to know if whatever occurs once or twice. You could test if the first occurance of the string was at the same position as the last occurance (by searching backwards); though that could also mean the string wasn't found at all:
IIF(
InStr(1, bigstring, littlestring) = InStrRev(bigstring, littlestring),
'used once',
'used twice or not at all'
)
I came across this post while researching a solution for my own issue with grand totals of calculated measures over time when filters are involved. I think you could have fixed the calculations instead of suppressing them by using dynamic sets. This worked for me.