Automation of customized PBCS Data Load

Business requirements

• Business users are loading the forecast data into PBCS application on weekly basis.

• PBCS application has Week1, Week2, Week3, Week4 and Final versions and users are loading the data into these version based on the forecast week.

       To load the data into specific version, the data load mapping should be updated based on the weekly load. If the user wants to load the data for the Week1 version, then the target mapping for version dimension should be updated to Week1 in data load mapping.

• But users can't update the data load mapping every time manually. It should be updated automatically based on the weekly load.

Solution

•To automate the data load process based on the version, we need to automate the data load mapping update process.

•This can be achieved using Version substitutional variables. The data load mapping file is generated based on the substitutional variable value and imported it into Version dimension data load mapping in data management.

•PowerShell script is used to get the substitutional variable value and generating data load mapping file.

Data load mapping file template

•The data load mapping file should be generated automatically based on the version substitutional variable value.

•The mapping file should have the below details

 >> Source Value, Target Value, Rule Name, Description, Apply to Rule