COGNOS

REPORTNET
Framework
Manager 1.1

R.Vijay Bhaskar DWH TEAM

2007

Center of Excellence
Data Warehousing
Framework Manager
Architecture
Managing Projects
Preparing Metadata
Publish Metadata
Framework Manager
Meta Data Modeling Tool
Model – Business presentation of
information
Model is packaged and published to
Report authors and Query users
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Manager
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Order of Study
Architecture
Managing Projects
Preparing Metadata
Publish Metadata
Project?
Set of models, packages
and related information
for maintaining and
sharing information

Demo of Open Project, Project Page Components, Create Project

Project
Project Namespac
e

Query
Subject
Import Metadata
 Can import metadata
from
 RDBMS (DB2, Oracle,
SQL Server)
 SAP BW Data Sources
 Existing Cognos
ReportNet models
 Architect Models and
Impromptu Catalogs
 Decision Stream Models
 Third-party metadata
sources
 XML as a data source

Demo of Import Metadata

Data Source
 A project, model, package can attach to multiple
data sources
 Objects with the same name from different
sources cannot be imported under one
namespace
 Importing metadata automatically creates data
source
 Modeling can be done with multiple data sets and
multi lingual data sources

For Oracle the Schema column is Case-Sensitive

Export Metadata
 Export to a Common
Warehouse Metamodel
(CWM) file.
 CWM is used for
exchanging metadata
between different
DWH tools and
repositories.
 Output is an .xml file
Manage Projects
Copy/Move/Rename/Delete
Segments
Links
Repository Control
Segmenting Models
Organize a project according to business
rules and organizational requirements
Share and reuse project information

Segments can be created at Folder or Namespace level

Linking Models
Shortcut to existing project, segment,
folder or namespace
Help organize work across large projects
Provides consistency
Reuse Information
Project 1 Project 2
Go Sales Inventory

Products Products

Any Change in Inventory Products, the changes will be

reflected in Go Sales Products

The project you link must have same languages and same design
Repository Control
Visual Safe Source (VSS)
Concurrent Version Systems (CVS)
Framework Manager
Architecture
Managing projects
Preparing Metadata
Publish Metadata
Preparing Metadata
Verifying Relationships
 Cardinality
Create Relationships
Query Subjects
 Prompt Control
Adding Business Rules
 Calculation
 Filter
 Prompts
 Session parameters

Demo on all the above bulleted points

Preparing Metadata -
Relationships
Preparing Metadata - Query
Subject
Prompt Control

Prompt Types
Calculation

Standalone
Embedded
Filter

Expression that satisfies the condition

that rows or instances must meet to be
retrieved for the query subject or report
to which the filter is applied
 Standalone
 Embedded
 Prompt values
to filter data

Filter on Indexed Column will be more efficient than a non-indexed

Parameter Map

To create conditional query subjects that

allow for substitution when the report is
run
 For Example
Company stores Product and Customer
Information in both French and English,
whereas Orders are stored in English
only
Framework Manager
Architecture
Managing projects
Preparing Metadata
Publish Metadata
Package?
 Subset of Query
subjects and other
objects defined in the
project
 To Create & Publish
package
 Verify
 Set Governors
 Controlling Access
 Data
 Object
 Package
 Publish

Demo of Packages
Verify package
Governors
Control Access
Publish Package
Questions/
Comments