An introduction to metadata
When you first enter Cognos Query Studio, the default menu is the Insert Data menu. This menu will show the metadata of the package that you are in. You may be wondering what metadata is. Metadata is data that describes other data. In this case, the metadata that is displayed will be logical names for the data that is shown. This metadata is defined in Framework Manager during package design.
Look at the following example; each group of metadata (Orders, Products, Sales reps, and so on) is called a query subject. Within each query subject, there are a number of query items.
Query subjects are collections of data that ...
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