Block Total Values For Parent Categories With Excluded Children; Upgrade An Ibm Cognos Series 7 Secured Powercube - IBM Cognos User Manual

3. On the Dimensions tab of the PowerCube property sheet, select the
4. Create and deploy your secured PowerCubes.

Block Total Values for Parent Categories with Excluded Children

You can block the summed values for parent categories with excluded children, so
that the resulting reports show a Denied value rather than the totals of the
non-excluded children. This prevents the display of data that is an inaccurate
rollup of only non-excluded categories.
Missing values take precedence over denied values. Categories show zero, N/A
(not available), a blank (nothing in the cell), or missing values, depending on how
you specified that missing measure values be handled. This allows you to
distinguish between missing and denied values.
For example, suppose you are responsible for a North American sales cube that
has detailed data for Mexico, Canada, and the USA. A group of users are allowed
to see the values for Mexico and the USA, but not the values for Canada, so you
exclude the Canada category.
You also restrict the view for aggregate values, so that the users see Denied instead
of the totals for North America. This prevents these users from deducing the
values for Canada. You should be aware that selecting this option means that,
should your users apply filters for North America with the contribution for
Canada excluded, they may erroneously conclude that Canada had no sales.
Procedure
1. In the PowerCubes list, right-click the cube you want to modify and then click
2. On the Processing tab of the PowerCube property sheet, select the Block totals

Upgrade an IBM Cognos Series 7 Secured PowerCube

You can open IBM Cognos Series 7 models with secured cubes in Cognos
Transformer, and upgrade the IBM Cognos Series 7 user class views and user
classes for use in IBM Cognos.
If you want to move to an authentication provider supported by IBM Cognos BI
other than Access Manager, you can do this over time.
When you open the IBM Cognos Series 7 secured model in Cognos Transformer,
you can choose to:
v Import the IBM Cognos Series 7 user class views associated with the model, but
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appropriate dimension views.
Properties.
for parents with excluded children check box and then click OK.
not the user classes.
Choose this option when you want to maintain the view operations applied in
the IBM Cognos Series 7 user class views but not use a Series 7 namespace with
the custom views, or if you do not intend to expose Series 7 as an available
namespace configured in IBM Cognos.
Note: Prior to building and using the Cognos Transformer cube in any of the
IBM Cognos studios, you will need to associate new security objects to the
upgraded custom views.