IBM Cognos Framework Manager: Design Metadata Models (v11.0)

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Course details

Target audience

Developers who design metadata models for use in IBM Cognos Analytics.

Desired Prerequisites:

• Knowledge of common industry-standard data structures and design.

• Experience with SQL

• Experience gathering requirements and analyzing data.

• IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (recommended)

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Agenda and course syllabus

1. Introduction to IBM Cognos Analytics

• Describe IBM Cognos Analytics and its position within an analytics solution

• Describe IBM Cognos Analytics components

• Describe IBM Cognos Analytics at a high level

• Explain how to extend IBM Cognos

2. Identifying common data structures

• Define the role of a metadata model in Cognos Analytics

• Distinguish the characteristics of common data structures

• Understand the relative merits of each model type

• Examine relationships and cardinality

• Identify different data traps

• Identify data access strategies

3. Defining requirements

• Examine key modeling recommendations

• Define reporting requirements

• Explore data sources to identify data access strategies

• Identify the advantages of modeling metadata as a star schema

• Model in layers

4. Creating a baseline project

• Follow the IBM Cognos 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

5. Preparing reusable metadata

• Verify relationships and query item properties

• Create efficient filters by configuring prompt properties

6. Modeling for predictable results: Identifying reporting Issues

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

• Describe how IBM Cognos uses cardinality

• Identify reporting traps

• Use tools to analyze the model

7: Modeling for predictable results: Virtual star schemas

• Understand the benefits of using model query subjects

• Use aliases to avoid ambiguous joins

• Merge query subjects to create as view behavior

• Resolve a recursive relationship

• Create a complex relationship expression

8. Modeling for predictable results: consolidate metadata

• 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

9. Creating 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

10. Implementing 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

11. Specifying determinants

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

12. Creating 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

• Rapidly create a model using the Model Design Accelerator

13. Working with different query subject types

• Identify the effects of modifying query subjects on generated SQL

• Specify two types of stored procedure query subjects

• Use prompt values to accept user input

14. Setting Security in Framework Manager

• Examine the IBM Cognos security environment

• Restrict access to packages

• Create and apply security filters

• Restrict access to objects in the model

15. Creating Analysis objects

• Apply dimensional information to relational metadata to enable OLAP-style queries

• Sort members for presentation and predictability

• Define members and member unique names

• Identify changes that impact a MUN

16. Managing 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

17. 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 IBM Cognos Analytics – Reporting generated SQL

• Dimensionally modeled relational SQL generation

• Cross join SQL

• Various results sets for multi-fact queries

18. Using 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

19. 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

20. Optimizing and tuning Framework Manager models

• Identify how minimized SQL affects model performance

• Use governors to set limits on query execution

• Identify the impact of rollup processing on aggregation

• Apply design mode filters

• Limit the number of data source connections

• Use the quality of service indicator

21. Working in a Multi-Modeler Environment

• Segment and link a project

• Branch a project and merge results

22. Managing packages in Framework Manager

• Specify package languages and function sets

• Control model versioning

• Nest packages

Appendix A. Additional modeling techniques

• Leverage a user defined function

• Identify the purpose of query sets

• Use source control to manage Framework Manager files

Appendix B. Modeling multilingual metadata

• Customize metadata for a multilingual audience

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