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Legacy Business Intelligence => COGNOS PowerPlay => Topic started by: elisha on 22 Sep 2005 03:22:23 PM

Title: cube extension
Post by: elisha on 22 Sep 2005 03:22:23 PM
What is the Extension for a Cube? Which format extension is most efficient extension for cube?
Title: Re: cube extension
Post by: cognostechie on 22 Sep 2005 06:18:35 PM
The extension is .mdc (Multi Dimensional Cube).

Haven't heard of any other extension yet.
Title: Re: cube extension
Post by: Draoued on 23 Sep 2005 04:57:41 AM
There is one extension for cube like CognosTechie is saying .

But you can have 2 extensions for the cube models , PYI or MDL

Have a look to this post (http://cognoise.com/community/index.php?topic=41.0)
Title: Re: cube extension
Post by: Darek on 24 Sep 2005 08:24:45 AM
Actually, sometimes the MDC has to be split into one MDC and multiple MDP files. For time partitioned cubes the pointer file extension is VCD.
Title: Re: cube extension
Post by: dzboy on 17 May 2006 11:35:47 PM
Quote from: Draoued on 23 Sep 2005 04:57:41 AM
There is one extension for cube like CognosTechie is saying .

But you can have 2 extensions for the cube models , PYI or MDL

Have a look to this post (http://cognoise.com/community/index.php?topic=41.0)

As mentioned above, PYI and MDL are both extensions for models and not cubes.
PYI is in binary format and MDL is ASCII. PYI is more likely to get corrupted sooner than later. So it is always a good practice to use the MDL format insread of working with PYI.
Title: Re: cube extension ( Solved)
Post by: elisha on 28 Jul 2006 03:41:50 AM
thanks for everyone..............