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This course is designed to guide report authors in building on their expertise with IBM Cognos Analytics by applying dimensional techniques to reports. Through interactive demonstrations and exercises, participants will learn how to author reports that navigate and manipulate dimensional data structures using the specific dimensional functions and features available in IBM Cognos Analytics.

IBM Cognos Analytics: Author Reports Fundamentals (v11.0)
Knowledge of your business requirements
Knowledge of dimensional data

Introduction to Dimensional Concepts

Identify different data sources and models
Investigate the OLAP dimensional structure
Identify dimensional data items and expressions
Differentiate the IBM Cognos Analytics query language from SQL and MDX
Differentiate relational and dimensional report authoring styles

Introduction to Dimensional Data in Reports

Work with members
Identify sets and tuples in IBM Cognos Analytics

Dimensional Report Context

Understand the purpose of report context
Understand how data is affected by default and root members

Focus Your Dimensional Data

Compare dimensional queries to relational queries
Explain the importance of filtering dimensional queries
Evaluate different filtering techniques
Filter based on dimensions and members
Filter based on measure values
Filter using a slicer

Calculations and Dimensional Functions

Use IBM Cognos Analytics dimensional functions to create sets and tuples
Perform arithmetic operations in OLAP queries
Identify coercion errors and rules

Functions for Navigating Dimensional Hierarchies

Navigate dimensional data using family functions

Relative Functions

Navigate dimensional data using relative functions
Navigate dimensional data using relative time functions

Advanced Drilling Techniques and Member Sets

Understand default drill-up and drill-down functionality
Identify cases when you need to override default drilling behavior
Configure advanced drilling behavior to support sophisticated use cases
Define member sets to support advanced drilling
Define member sets to support functions

Set Up Drill-Through Reports

Navigate from a specific report to a target report
Drill down to greater detail and then navigate to target report
Navigate between reports created using different data sources

End-to-End Workshop

Review concepts covered throughout the course

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09 July 2024