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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
Free Chapter
1
The Components of TM1

TM1 reports


TM1 Print Report Wizard can be used to print reports or to save reports as Excel or PDF documents.

TM1 reports must be created from a TM1 slice (described earlier in this chapter). From there, TM1 reports utilize a Report Generation Wizard to:

  • Select the worksheets to be included in the report

  • Select the title dimensions and subsets for the report

  • Select workbook print options

  • Select a print destination for the report (printer, Excel file, or PDF file)

  • Save the report settings

TM1 Print Report Wizard

To use the reporting wizard, from the menu bar, click on TM1, then select the Print Report option. From the Print Report Wizard dialog, you can select the desired options and click on Next to step through and set up all of the report options and then click on Finish.

Selecting the sheets

You can use TM1 Print Report Wizard to select any (or all) of the worksheets from the current Excel workbook to include in your report. In the wizard, you can select the checkbox of the worksheet that you...