Is there any way to move forecasting models produced by Forecast Studio?

[GvTy]

I am currently working on a project that involves producing upwards of 60,000 total forecasts for a 5-tier hierarchy. The issue we are running into involves the storage of the forecast datasets. Is there a specific way to designate where the models will be stored? I understand that it creates a 'folder' for each level of the hierarchy. We would like to store it in several different folders at the higher end of the hierarchy, where there are about 5 different categories and then about 30 different categories branching off of those 5. We are trying to use several of the Forecast Studio macros including %FSPRJAGG and several of the options in %FSCREATE. Any insight would be much appreciated.

[SnurreJensen]

In cases where storage becomes an issue I would suggest looking into the following possibilities:

- Make sure that there are no old projects which are no longer needed that takes up storage space

- If the components datasets are not used, avoid creating them at project creation time. In the GUI it is done in Forecasting Settings -> Forecast. If using the %FSCREATE macro this can be controlled using the CREATEOUTCOMPONENT macro variable. Please not that this needs to be defined at project creation time.

Additionally, SAS can also work with compression of the data sets that are being used. This is done using the system option COMPRESS. However, this can impact performance since data sets need to be un-compressed as well. Therefore I would recommend that you investigate the 2 first possibilities mentioned before doing anything else.

Thanks,

Snurre