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cubes (continued)
creating views to summarize values for specific
categories 138
creating views to suppress specific categories 135
customizing time-based partitioned cubes 131
data consolidation 178
design/build considerations 123
disabling cube build using -ox option 231
excluding specific measures 132
incremental updates 180
load balancing 168
maintaining 169
modifying 179
omitting specific dimensions 132
optimizing processing 331
optimizing using time-based partitioning 125
password-protected 157
performing test builds 144
PowerCubes open slowly 243
publishing to IBM Cognos Connection 163
routine maintenance tasks 179
samples 336
security 157
setting up drill-through targets 139, 140
setting up time-based partitioning 128
setting up UNIX data sources 193
slowly changing dimensions 129
sorting considerations 128
sorting in a slowly changing dimension (example) 130
sorting time-based partitions (example) 129
troubleshooting slow build times 202
troubleshooting time-based partitioning issues 128
updating 170
updating metadata 144
upgrading a secured cube 159
using alternate data sources when creating 143
using multiple files for large cubes 170
xml code for publishing (example) 222
currency conversion
manually updating currency tables 121
setup procedure 115
setup using base currency table 116
setup using euro currency table 119
using base currency table (example) 118
using euro and base currency files (example) 120
current period setting
-t command line option 232
current time period
setting automatically 80
setting manually 81
custom views
combine with dimension views 157
controlling access 151
excluded and cloaked categories in the same dimension
(example) 156
excluded categories in the same dimension (example) 155
security 150
specifying category actions in diagrams 321
union of excluded categories in different dimensions
(example) 155
union of multi-dimensional apexed views (example) 154
union with an apex cloaked in the same dimension
(example) 153
union with an apex excluded the same dimension
(example) 153
union with an apex in different dimensions (example) 154
union with an apex in the same dimension (example) 152
custom views (continued)
union with omitted dimensions (example) 156
unions 151
customizing
cubes using views 133
D
data
security 147
separating structural and transactional sources 5
setting up currency conversion 115
data extraction
SAP BW guidelines for variable usage 342
data retrieval
troubleshooting an SAP-based data source 242
data souces
samples 337
data source scope
verifying and troubleshooting 44
data source types
changing 33
Data Source Viewer 315
data sources 13
adding a query 34
adding additional queries 36
adding to existing model 34, 36
benefits of using multiple source files 43
category inclusion in cubes 322
connecting to UNIX cubes 193
connection strings for IQD files 39
controlling when sources are read 47
creating a signon 55
creating from IBM Cognos Reports 193
design principles 13
isolation levels for IQD files 39
list reports 16
modifying SQL queries (IQD files) 40
reducing processing time 177
reordering 24
resolving uniqueness problems 23, 34
securing 55
specifying alternatives when creating specific cubes 143
specifying Cognos PowerHouse 4GL parameters 43
specifying column parameters 47
specifying spreadsheet parameters 41
supported character sets (delimited text files) 41
supported types 13
synchronizing model columns to source files 37
synchronizing with Modify Columns command 34
updating 169
date categories
specifying CenturyBreak setting (INI file) 54
date columns
setting degree of detail 51
specifying monthly or quarterly arrays 52
date functions 358
date values
formatting in time dimensions 73
limiting range 78
date-to-days-from-1900 function 360
dates
extending specified range 89
input formats and functions 323
day function 360
days-to-end-of-month function 360
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