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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

Organizing objects by using libraries


A library is a container that stores objects. It provides a way to group and organize objects. An entire planning system can easily involve hundreds or even thousands of objects. So organizing them in a logical manner helps you and other users to easily find objects. Objects that are stored in a library can reference objects outside of the library. This allows you to store objects in any library and still make them accessible to other objects. You can store an entire model in one library, or spread parts of the model between two or more libraries. You can store different versions of the same model is separate libraries. In addition to providing a way to organize objects, libraries offer a way to secure objects. When there are multiple Analyst users, you may want to restrict certain users from having access to your models. Analyst provides library-level security. Because you can set security on a library, you can give users write, read, or no access to...

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