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IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification guide

By : James D. Miller
Book Image

IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification guide

By: James D. Miller

Overview of this book

IBM Cognos TM1 is enterprise planning software that provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing timely, reliable and personalized forecasts and budgets. It is a real time, in memory tool that helps any sized business perform planning, budgeting and forecasting as well as other financial exercises. This book prepares you to master COG-310 certification using an example-driven method that is easy to understand. The IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification guide provides key technical details and background to clear the current IBM Cognos TM1 Developer (test COG-310) certification exam. This certification book covers all the modules of the certification clearly and in depth. The initial chapters cover in detail the components that make up Cognos TM1 and designing and creating dimensions and cubes. The book then dives deep into basic and advanced scripting using TurboIntegrator and then we learn to understand and write basic Rules. We then learn about the drill-through functionality of TM1, virtual and lookup cubes and lastly Time, and presenting and reporting data
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The Components of TM1

Chapter 5. Advanced Techniques for TI Scripting

In this chapter, we will discuss advanced techniques for TurboIntegrator (TI) scripting in regards to the current IBM Cognos TM1 Developer (Test COG-310) certification exam.

Specifically, we will review the advanced tabs in TI and how they are used, the differences between the four TI scripts, we will identify where to apply custom scripts, and finally we will also provide some tips and tricks you can use when creating TI.

The current certification exam assigns a weightage of 10 percent to this topic.

ETL

Most applications built with Cognos TM1 require some way to perform data ETL which is an acronym for extract, transform, and load. It is a process that involves extracting data from an outside source, transforming it into some form to fit an operational need, and then loading that newly formatted data into a target.

Cognos TM1 provides TI to meet this requirement. TurboIntegrator or TI gives you the power to develop a process that can recognize...