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IBM Cognos 8 Platform => COGNOS 8 => Framework Manager => Topic started by: mgraham on 15 Aug 2007 08:06:13 AM

Title: variable depth hierarchies
Post by: mgraham on 15 Aug 2007 08:06:13 AM
Re. variable depth hierarchies.

We have a standard parent child relationship for customers/companies. Does Framework have a method to handle thisi type of hierarchy or do I have to create flat dimension tables with the inbuilt hierarchy generated using SQL.


Any comments.
Much appreciated.
Mark
Title: Re: variable depth hierarchies
Post by: MFGF on 22 Aug 2007 07:20:33 AM
Hi Mark,

There is no functionality in Framework Manager explicitly designed to handle unbalanced/ragged/recursive hierarchies.  Typically these would be best resolved before modelling the data in FM.  ETL tools such as Data Manager have the required technology for resolving these kinds of issues.

Best regards,

MF.