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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

Modifying your view of data


From TM1 Cube Viewer, the display or view of information can easily be rearranged or changed. To do this, Cube Viewer allows a user to perform the following:

  • Stack dimensions to see more detail along the columns or rows of a view

  • Drill down on the consolidated elements displayed in the view to see the underlying detail

  • Change the title dimension elements in the view to access a completely different view of the cube data

  • Drill-through the view to detailed data (if a drill process and rule is set up as described in Chapter 6,Drill-through)

Stacking a title dimension as a row dimension

To stack a title dimension as a row dimension in Cube Viewer, you can click on the element name in the title dimension and drag that element name to the right or left of a row dimension name.

Stacking a title dimension as a column dimension

To stack a title dimension as a column dimension in Cube Viewer, you can click on the element name in the title dimension and drag that element name...