Essentials for IBM Cognos BI: Supplement for Metadata Modelers (V10.2)

Work with Different Query Subject Types

• Identify key differences and recommendations for using data source, model, and stored procedure query subjects
• Identify the effects on generated SQL when modifying query subjects, SQL settings and relationships

Set Security in Framework Manager

• Examine the IBM Cognos BI security environment
• Restrict access to packages
• Create and apply security filters
• Restrict access to objects in the model

Manage OLAP Data Sources

• Connect to an OLAP data source (cube) in a Framework Manager project
• Publish an OLAP model
• Publish a model with multiple OLAP data sources
• Publish a model with an OLAP data source and a relational data source

Advanced Generated SQL Concepts and Complex Queries

• Governors that affect SQL generation
• Stitch query SQL
• Conformed and non-conformed dimensions in generated SQL
• Multi-fact/multi-grain stitch query SQL
• Variances in Report Studio generated SQL
• Dimensionally modeled relational SQL generation
• Cross join SQL
• Various results sets for multi-fact queries

Use Advanced Parameterization Techniques in Framework Manager

• Identify environment and model session parameters
• Leverage session, model, and custom parameters
• Create prompt macros
• Leverage macro functions associated with security

Model Maintenance and Extensibility

• Perform basic maintenance and management on a model
• Remap metadata to another source
• Import and link a second data source
• Run scripts to automate or update a model
• Create a model report

Optimize and Tune Framework Manager Models

• Identify and implement techniques to optimize and tune your Framework Manager models
• Use Dynamic Query Mode in Framework Manager

Work in a Multi-Modeler Environment

• Segment and link a project
• Branch a project and merge results

Manage Framework Manager Packages

• Specify package languages and function sets
• Control model versioning
• Nest packages

Appendix A: Employ Additional Framework Manager Modeling Techniques

• Leverage a user defined function
• Set the order of operations in a model calculation
• Externalize query subjects
• Prepare IBM Cognos 10 content for use as a data source in Transformer
• Create query sets
• Use external source control through Windows Explorer

Appendix B: Model Multilingual Metadata

• Customize metadata for a multilingual audience

Appendix C: Access Additional Resources

• Links to sites where the customer can find more information about course-related material.