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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
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Preface
Free Chapter
1
The Components of TM1

Intercube feeders


When working with intercube rules, as in the case of virtual cubes, rule statements reside in the target (the virtual) cube, while feeder statements always reside in the source cube.

It may be easier to understand if you think of your feeders pushing and pulling. Feeders do the pushing of data from the source cube (so, they will reside in or be associated with the source cube) while rules do the pulling of data into the destination cube (so, they will reside in or be associated with the destination cube). This is true for standard TM1 cubes as well as virtual TM1 cubes.

For example, if the virtual cube references data in the standard cube, the TM1 rules to reference the data in the standard cube will be associated with the virtual cube. The feeders to support these rules will reside in the standard cube:

To create rules for a TM1 virtual cube, referencing reference data in other cubes, you have to understand rule cube references, which we explained in Chapter 4, Rules.

Now...