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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Transformer => Topic started by: VRaj_90 on 07 Jun 2013 12:10:04 PM

Title: Automate Creation of Cubes without using Scripts
Post by: VRaj_90 on 07 Jun 2013 12:10:04 PM
Hello Cognos Gurus,

My Project has requirement that I want to automate the process of creation of cube so that it will reflect the updated query data in the metric package in which I am using it. I found some techniques but the were using the scripts. I want to automate it without using the scripts, any suggestions are needed asap..

Thanks in advance..!!
Title: Re: Automate Creation of Cubes without using Scripts
Post by: Lynn on 07 Jun 2013 12:33:07 PM
Why not use scripts?
Title: Re: Automate Creation of Cubes without using Scripts
Post by: VRaj_90 on 07 Jun 2013 12:43:34 PM
Actually Rest of the process I've made without using scripts and I found somewhere that it can be done by using some options in Transformer, I am using cognos Tranasformer v10..
Title: Re: Automate Creation of Cubes without using Scripts
Post by: cognostechie on 07 Jun 2013 06:08:49 PM
What you 'found somewhere' means that there are some deployment settings that has to be done in Transformer but there will be a script that will 'invoke' Transformer to start the process that builds the cube. Those settings in Transformer are for versioining of the cube and to make the latest version active for the reports to use.

Even before the versioning feature was introduced, the cube was always built by Transformer and the scripts were there merely to invoke Tranformer to start the build process. Rest of the things in the script of earlier versions were for copying/moving the cube etc.

In other words, the Cube was never built by the scripts. The scripts were there only to invoke Tranformer and it was always Transformer that was building the cube. The script and Transformer are not alternates to each other but the script rather compliments Transfomer for an automated process. Hope this clears your confusion. 
Title: Re: Automate Creation of Cubes without using Scripts
Post by: VRaj_90 on 10 Jun 2013 05:48:41 AM
Okay Cognostechie..!! Thanks for your reply..!! It helped me lot..!!  :)