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IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification guide

By : James D. Miller
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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
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Preface
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1
The Components of TM1

TM1 TurboIntergrator review


TM1 TurboIntegrator is the programming or scripting tool that allows you to automate data importation, metadata management, and many other tasks.

Scripts built with TI can be saved, edited and, through the use of chores, be set up to run at regular intervals.

TI scripts can be used to process existing TM1 data or, through the use of TI's Data Source feature, import (and then process) data or information external to TM1.

Within each process there are six sections or tabs. They are as follows:

  • Data Source

  • Variables

  • Maps

  • Advanced

  • Schedule

The Data Source tab

You use the Data Source tab to identify the source from which you want to import data to TM1.

When defining a process from the TM1 Client, the path to an ASCII or ODBC data source may (and usually will) differ from the path used by the server machine that TM1 is actually running on. If this happens, the process will fail.

The fields and options available on the Data Source tab vary according to the Datasource...