New to Cognos Planning

[Kalyan Krishna]

Dear All,
Good Day.

I am new learner to Cognos Planning, I have few queries

1) I have created couple of D-Lists D-cubes and saved them under a  library (In a folder on Windows XP), but when I look into the file system (library) there are certain files created ( Ex: NLDLIST.D0) in the library file system, how can I identify which file is D-list and which is a D-cube.

2) I have create a file map (Source file exists in d drive) in planning analyst and I saved this file map in a library (in c drive), but when I check for the file map in the library file system it is not available, but I can access this file map through planning analyst. Can you please tell me where does the file maps gets stored by default and how to delete them.

Thank You,
Kalyan

[bi4u2]

You do not ever want to edit or delete these library file objects.

You can maintain all of these objects in Analyst under File/Library/Objects. In this screen you can delete, open, rename, or even move objects between libraries.

[gonza026]

You do not ever want to edit or delete these library file objects.

You can maintain all of these objects in Analyst under File/Library/Objects. In this screen you can delete, open, rename, or even move objects between libraries.

+1

Hy. Thats answer is only you have to know. No delete from the C: any file, because is not the way.

The correctly way is Flie/Library... like bi4u2 said.

[jeffowentn]

Kalyan,

My question to you is why you need to know the different file type extensions.  It seems you have a requirement that you haven't mentioned that might be solved another way.

In case this helps:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21335379

As others have said, typically these objects should all be managed within Analyst and not in Windows Explorer, directly.

Jeff

[bi4u2]

Kalyan,

Alternatively, you can open your object in Analyst - whether it is a d-cube, d-list, A-table then go to the File Menu > Summary Info and on the General tab it will show you the exact location of where the object is saved in the directory. I used this one time when I changed a d-list and needed to restore the d-list from a back up copy.