IBM Cognos Planning Contributor

You can use IBM Cognos BI to report on and analyze real-time Contributor data.

You can create an IBM Cognos Contributor package in one of the following ways:

• Using the Contributor Administration Console, you can create a package that contains all the cubes in the application. When a user opens the package in a studio, they are presented with metadata for all the cubes in the application and can choose from multiple cubes to create reports. However, users may be at risk of inadvertently building queries that attempt to use values from more than one cube, resulting in reports with no data. For more information, refer to the IBM Cognos Planning Contributor Administration Guide.
• Using Framework Manager, you can determine how many cubes to expose in a package. By default, you get one cube in each package. However, this may result in a large number of packages in Cognos Connection, which could be difficult to manage. For more information, refer to the IBM Cognos Framework Manager User Guide.

You specify connection parameters when you create a data source or modify a data source connection. For more information, seeData Source Creation and Add or Modify a Data Source Connection.