Ragged Or Unbalanced Hierarchies Result In Unexpected Behavior; Unable To Open The Great Outdoors Sales.mdl Sample Model And Generate Cubes - IBM Cognos User Manual

For example, if the Actual Revenue measure format specifies two decimal places
and the USD currency in the currency table specifies no decimal places, two
decimal places will appear in the USD currency value.
v Calculations that include a division operator and at least one currency operand
will now show a resulting value with three decimal places only when
– neither of the currency values includes decimals
– two currency operands have different numbers of decimal places
In all other calculations of this type, the number of decimals in the resulting
value is determined by the number of decimals in the currency value. The
following examples illustrate this new behavior:
– $4.00 / $2.00 = $2.00
– $4 / $3.0000 = $1.3333
– $4 / $3 = $1.333
– $4.0 / $3.00 = $1.333
Ragged or Unbalanced Hierarchies Result in Unexpected
Behavior
In ragged or unbalanced hierarchies, some members that are not at the lowest level
of the hierarchy may have no descendants at one or more lower levels. Support for
these hierarchy gaps in relational sources is limited.
For OLAP sources, more complete support is provided, but some reports may
result in unexpected behavior:
v Groups corresponding to missing members may appear or disappear when
grouped list reports are pivoted to a crosstab. This happens with set expressions
using the filter function, and detail filters on members.
v Ragged and unbalanced sections of the hierarchy are suppressed when set
expressions in that hierarchy are used on an edge.
v When a crosstab is sectioned or is split into a master-detail report, sections
corresponding to missing members become empty.
Some of these behaviors may be corrected in a future release, while others may be
codified as supported behavior. To prevent these behaviors, avoid the scenarios
above.
The following scenarios are believed to be safe:
v one or more nested level references on an edge, with no modifying expression.
v a hierarchy reference on only one level of one edge.
v one or more explicit members or sets of explicit members as siblings on only one
level of one edge.
v summaries of the previous three scenarios.
In all cases, reports based on ragged and unbalanced hierarchies should be tested
to confirm that hierarchy gaps are handled correctly.
Unable to Open the Great Outdoors Sales.mdl Sample Model
and Generate Cubes
If your setup information for the Great Outdoors Sales.mdl is incorrect, you will be
unable to open the sample model for Transformer, Great Outdoors Sales.mdl, or
generate cubes.
Appendix B. Troubleshooting
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