Populating Multidimensional Hierarchical Data Objects

Frequently you first populate the base values of your variables from relational tables or from flat files. You then calculate other values from these base values using OLAP DML calculation objects. For example, you might define aggregation objects to aggregate the values that are higher up the hierarchy.

You can also assign values to variables, relations, and dimension surrogates using assignment statements (see SET and SET1) and add values to dimensions using MAINTAIN statements.