IBM Cognos Framework Manager: Design Metadata Models (V10.2) Training

Overview of IBM Cognos BI

Discuss IBM Cognos and Performance Management

Describe IBM Cognos components

Describe IBM Cognos architecture at a high level

Define IBM Cognos groups and roles

Explain how to extend IBM Cognos

Identify Common Data Structures

Examine the characteristics of operational databases and databases designed for reporting

Examine relationships and cardinality

Identify different data traps

Examine dimensional data sources

Gather Requirements

Examine key modeling recommendations

Define reporting requirements

Explore data sources to identify data access strategies

Create a Baseline Project

Examine the IBM Cognos BI and Framework Manager workflow processes

Define a project and its structure

Describe the Framework Manager environment

Create a baseline project

Enhance the model with additional metadata

Prepare Reusable Metadata

Identify facts and dimensions

Examine relationships, and data traps

Verify relationships and query item properties

Ensure efficient filters by configuring prompt properties

Model for Predictable Results: Identify Reporting Issues

Describe multi-fact queries and when full outer joins are appropriate

Describe how IBM Cognos BI uses cardinality

Identify reporting traps

Use tools to analyze the model

Model for Predictable Results: Virtual Star Schemas

Identify the advantages of modeling metadata as a star schema

Model in layers

Create aliases to avoid ambiguous joins

Merge query subjects to create as view behavior

Model for Predictable Results: Consolidate Metadata

Create virtual facts to simplify writing queries

Create virtual dimensions to resolve fact-to-fact joins

Create a consolidated modeling layer for presentation purposes

Consolidate snowflake dimensions with model query subjects

Simplify facts by hiding unnecessary codes

Calculations and Filters

Use calculations to create commonly-needed query items for authors

Use static filters to reduce the data returned

Use macros and parameters in calculations and filters to dynamically control the data returned

Implement a Time Dimension

Make time-based queries simple to author by implementing a time dimension

Resolve confusion caused by multiple relationships between a time dimension and another table

Specify Determinants

Use determinants to specify multiple levels of granularity and prevent double-counting

Create the Presentation View

Identify the dimensions associated with a fact table

Identify conformed vs. non-conformed dimensions

Create star schema groupings to provide authors with logical groupings of query subjects

Rapidly create a model using the Model Design Accelerator

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

Create Analysis Objects

Apply dimensional information to relational Metadata to enable OLAP-style queries

Define members and member unique names

Identify changes that impact a MUN

Sort members for presentation and predictability

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 Manger

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 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: Additional Resources

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