IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes

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4.11 Deploying dynamic cubes for reporting and analysis

This section explains how to quickly deploy or manually deploy Cognos Dynamic Cubes.

4.11.1 Quick-deploy options in Cognos Cube Designer

After you finish modeling, you can publish your cube to Cognos Connection in your IBM

Cognos BI Server environment so that report authors and others can begin their reporting

and analysis. To do this, right-click the cube you want to deploy from the Project Explorer and

select Publish.

The resulting dialog, the Publish dialog (Figure 4-12) gives you the option of publishing the

cube as a data source, or leveraging some of the quick-deploy options. To perform all of the

required steps in Cognos Cube Designer, click Select all options in the Publish dialog.

Selecting all of the available options will automatically perform the various actions required to

enable your cube for reporting. The operation attempts to deploy the cube to content store as

a Dynamic Cube data source, start the cube, and then publish a package based on the cube

to your My Folders location in Cognos Connection.

Figure 4-12 Publish dialog

You may select as many, or as few, of the quick-deploy options you want from the Publish

dialog. All of the steps are required, so any option that is deselected here must be

accomplished manually in Framework Manager or in Cognos Connection.

After this process completes, begin your reporting and analysis on the dynamic cube

package. If you then want to make this dynamic cube package available to other report

authors or users, you may copy the package and paste it into the location of your choice in

Public Folders in Cognos Connection. The package contains a reference to the underlying

cube and data source, so copying or moving the package will not affect the link between the

package and the cube.

4.11.2 Manually deploying a dynamic cube

Another way of deploying your dynamic cube to is to manually deploy the cube from Cognos

Cube Designer and create and publish a dynamic cube package using Cognos Framework

Manager.