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IBM Cognos 8 Planning

You're reading from IBM Cognos 8 Planning

Product type Book

Published in Jul 2009

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781847196842

Pages 424 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Table of Contents (23) Chapters

IBM Cognos 8 Planning

Credits

About the Authors

1. Acknowledgment

About the Reviewers

2. Preface

1. Planning with IBM Cognos

2. Getting to know IBM Cognos Tools

3. Understanding the Model Development Process

4. Understanding the Analyst Environment

5. Defining Data Structures: D-List

6. Storing Planning Data: D-Cube

7. Moving Planning Data: D-Links

8. Understanding the Contributor Environment

9. Building, Configuring, and Updating the Contributor Application

10. Securing and Controlling Contributor Web Client Template/Application

11. Importing Data into a Contributor Application

12. Working with the Contributor Web Client

13. Reporting Planning Data—Publish and BI Integration

14. Maintaining Analyst Models

15. Maintaining Contributor Applications

16. Maintaining Security

Index

Importing data from external files/databases

The Contributor import feature is the primary method of loading data into the Contributor database from external sources. The Contributor database is created when you create an application. This database contains many tables which support the application, including an import table for each cube.

Understanding the import process—concepts

In this section, we will explain how Contributor imports data from external sources. You can find step-by-step instructions of data import in the next section.

Contributor transfers data from external sources to the Contributor database, or the Contributor Web Client, using a four-step process:

Copy: In this step, Contributor copies the data file from a local PC to the Contributor Administration Server.
Load: Contributor loads the data file from the Contributor Administration Server to the application's import tables (im_table) using the database bulk load utility program.

Prepare: The Contributor Calculation Engine...

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