Sparse Restructures

When Essbase does a sparse restructure (restructures only the index), it uses the following files:

  To perform a sparse restructure, Essbase does the following:

  1. Renames the dbname.esm file to dbname.esr.

  2. Renames the essxxxxx.ind files to essxxxxx.inm.

  3. Creates index files (essxxxxx.ind) to store index information that is changed by the restructuring operation.

  4. Removes dbname.esr and essxxxxx.inm created in step 1.