COGNOS POWERPLAY TRANSFORMER CUBES:

1. What is the cube extension?

.mdc

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2.What are the types of model extensions?

.mdl & .pyj

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3. What are the sources using to create a model or a cube?

IQD, MODEL, REPORTS, PACKAGES.

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4. What is Clean House Command?

It removes categories that are no longer relevant by deleting those categories that
have not been
used in the model since a given date.

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5. What are Cube Custimisation Techniques?

Performance tuning techniques in Cognos Cube means Cube Customisation techniques.

Apex, Cloak, Exclude, Summarize, Suppress these type of things you have to improve
the performance of
the cube as well as the partition. Mainly partition also because we have to split
the cube to improve the
performance.

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6. What is the difference between Apex & Cloak?

Apex causes the selected category to become the top of the hierarchy for the
Dimension
when that View is active.

Cloak prevents the selected category and it's descendants from being
visible in the Dimension.

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7.I have a multiple measures in powerplay transformer model? But I dont want to see
all the models?
What is the approach?

Exclude

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8. What is Alternate Drill Down?

Alternate Drill Down means there will be two paths to opt.

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9. What is the cube group?

Set of similar cubes is called cube group

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10.What are the types of securities in cube?

Object Security
Package Security
Row level Security

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11.What is the maximum size of the cube? If it is crossing 2gb what will happen?
How you can resolve it?

1.2 gb

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12.What is powercube?

A file that contains data that is structured to provide for fast retrieval and
exploration of data in
Power Play.

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13.What are the user interface in cognos?

1.Dimensional Map
2.Data Sources
3.Measures
4.Powercubes

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14.What is meant by Signon?

Signons are used to facilitate how cognos transformer access secured data sources
when building cubes.

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15. How many categories if it is crossing cube will be failed?

If it is crossing 65,536 cubes was failed

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16.Which Transformer feature can be used to add the updated data quickly in
PowerCube?

Use the Update PowerCube Command

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17.What is a .mdl and .pyj file?

.mdl and .pyj are model versions. .pyj supports only windows environment. It will
store only binary format.
Mdl supports all the environment. Windows, Linux, Unix all the environments but it
will save in hascky format.
The binary format is faster but it does not support all the environments generally
we used for . pyj

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18.What is incremental refreshing of a cube and how can we do it?

By using incremental refreshing for the cube, you don't need to recreate the cube
for updates it will only
update the cube by the latest information. This will increase the performance in
Transformer. For incremental
refreshing/update, you have to check the checkbox indicating (This Cube Is
incremental updates in the
processing tab of properties dialogue box of the cube.

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19.In a complex report how much maxim. No. of dimension exists in a Cube?
In a complex report we have to maximum 14 not more than that.
More than that i never used. Cube was failed if we have to use more than that.
We implemented more 14 dimensions earlier cube was failed.

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20.What is the difference between hierarchies and levels

A hierarchy is a set of members organized into a structure for convenient analysis.
 A hierarchy is a list of levels (e.g,. a Calendar with Year and Month levels).

A level is a list of members (eventually members are organized into levels).

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32.What are the challenges you are facing in cube?

Hierarchies are not caluclated properly In database level and cube level not
matching the data then I have to
verify each level by level where is the problem then you have to investigate then
particualar
data source you have to check it .

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33.What is the difference between Exclude, Cloak and Suppress options?

Suppressing a category hides that specific category from the cube.

Cloaking a category hides that category and all its descendants from the cube.

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1.How to build a cube in Cognos using Framework Manager?

Start the framework manager Step 1

Create a new project Step 2

Select the design language for the project Step 3

 Select Metadata Source Step 4

Select data source from the list or create a new project Step 5

Select the object according to requirement Step 6

Generate the relationship Step 7

Finish the process Step 8

Query Subject convert into IQD Step 9

Publish the package and save the IQD on the particular place Step 10

Open the transformer go to file new model name

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2.How to evaluate the cube?

3.What are the different performance tuning techniques of a Cognos cube?

Performance tuning techniques in Cognos Cube means Cube Customisation techniques.
Apex, Cloak, Exclude,Summarize,Suppress these type of things you have to improve
the
performance of the cube as well as partition.
Mainly partition also because we have to split the cube to improve the performance.

Your cube size is 1.9 GB i dont want 1.9 GB I want to split into 1 gb and 0.9 gb
then automatically performance will be increased in your cube.

5.What is incremental refreshing of a cube and how can we do it?

Incremental Update means whatever source is updated in the database automatically
reflect whatever data is modified in the database in the cube.
That�s why we are using incremental update. For example I have 100 sources
but current source A is database is updated updated data only reflected
in your cube It wont reflected remaining all the cubes.
6.In a complex report how much maxim. No. of dimension exists in a Cube?
In a complex report we have to maximum 14 not more than that.
More than that i never used. Cube was failed if we have to use more than that.
We implemented more 14 dimensions earlier cube was failed.

7.Will a framework manager in Cognos use cube or is it RDBMS?

In framework Manager we use cubes not RDBMS.

8.What is the difference between hierarchies and levels

A hierarchy is a set of members organized into a structure for convenient analysis.

A hierarchy is a list of levels (e.g,. a Calendar with Year and Month levels).

A level is a list of members (eventually members are organized into levels).

11.What is the size of the cube in ur project? what is the complex report u created
in ur project and explain? how

12.How to generate cubes in Cognos

13.How do you drill from powerPLay to Impromptu? Explain all Steps.

14.How to create a cube in Transformer?

15.Where will you see Size of the cube?

16.How to update the Cube incrementally?

Right click on the properties there is called processing there you can select
incremental update.

17.How to do the Manual Partitioning

There are two types of partitioning auto partitioning and time based partitioning.
Auto partitioning means manually you can do and time based partitioning you can
do depending on the requirement right click on the properties you can apply
for the time based partitioning. Auto partitioning we cannot do because we dont
have access.

18.What is Consolidation
Consolidation means it will arrange the cube in a proper order.

19.How to create Cube groups?

First we have to insert the cube then later we have to apply what
level we have to apply the group.Whenever you are applying cube group the
each country is created as a one mdc file then automatically
what happens the particular cube the particular country i want to send

20.What is meant by roll-up?

Roll Up means we have to specify the aggregated functions. Max, Min, Total, Average
22.What is meant by clean house command?

It removes categories that are no longer relevant by deleting those categories

that have not been used in the model since a given date.
Otherwise what happened means the cube phases automatically increasing
cube will be failed thats why maximum avoid categories which you are
not using allocate those categories which you are using.

23.How many cubes you are created till now?

May be seven or eight cubes not more than that

24.What is meant by alternate drill down with ex?

Alternate drill down path me there will be two path to opt.

For example- We will have time dimension now the client requirement
is they want two type of year -one is calender year(Jan-Dec) and another is fiscal
year(Apr-Mar).

25.What does a PowerCube contain?

Power Cube contain cube information that is called datasources,

measures and dimension maps and signons. It contains categories subcategories.

26.What is a .mdl and .pyj file?

.mdl and .pyj are model versions. .pyj supports only windows environment.
It will store only binary format. Mdl supports all the environment.
Windows,linux,Unix all the environments but it will save in hascky format.
Binary format is faster but it does not support all the environments generally we
used for pyj

27.What is the difference between Exclude, Cloak and Suppress options?

Suppressing a category hides that specific category from the cube.

Cloaking a category hides that category and all its descendants from the cube.

28.Which Transformer feature can be used to add the updated data quickly in
PowerCube?

Use the Update PowerCube Command

29. What are the extension of the models?

mdl and pjy

30. What is a cube extension?

.mdc

31. How many categories if it is crossing cube will be failed?

If it is crossing 65,536 cube was failed
32.What are the challenges you are facing in cube?

Hierarchies are not caluclated properly In database level and cube level not
matching the data then I have to
verify each level by level where is the problem then you have to investigate then
particualar
data source you have to check it

33.What are the sources you are using in cube?

IQD Reports and Packages

34. What is the difference between IQD Reports and Packages

Iqd does not contain data it contains query definition but reports contain data and
packages contain data