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IBM Cognos TM1 Developer's Certification guide
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There are four types of cubes in Cognos TM1. They are as follows:
Standard cubes
Control cubes
Virtual cubes
Lookup cubes
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Virtual: This term has been defined in philosophy as that which is not real but may display the salient qualities of the real—Wikipedia.
Lookup: This term usually refers to searching a data structure for an item that satisfies some specified property—Wikipedia.
A standard cube in Cognos TM1 is referred to as a hard cube or a cube where data is actually loaded and resides.
In Chapter 2, Dimensions and Cubes we talked about the standard Cognos TM1 cube as well as dimension objects. You will remember following points:
Cubes are to TM1 what tables are to relational databases.
You can create a cube with dimensions, and dimensions identify how to organize the information or data that you want to track and report on.
Each element in each dimension identifies the location (or "x-y coordinate") of a cell in a cube.
Data is loaded into these cube cells and these...
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