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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
Languages

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

Storing published data


Contributor stores published data in a separate datastore, which IBM Cognos documentation refers to as the 'publish container'. Unlike the Contributor application datastore, which is a transactional database, the publish container has a different life cycle and contains a significantly different storage and performance profile. There are two different types of publish containers available, and we will examine both types of containers in the next section. The two types of containers are:

  • The Table-only Layout Publish Container

  • The View Layout Publish Container

The following are the steps required to create a publish container. Note that the steps to create a publish container apply to both types of publish layouts.

  1. Select the application and click on the Production branch.

  2. Select either the Table-only Layout or the View Layout from the Publish branch.

  3. Click on the Configure button on the Option tab. You may or may not have the required rights to create the publish container...

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