Cognos 8.4 framework Manager ----------------------------1. Datasource Creation ----------------------step 1: Cognos Administration portal.

Launch --> cognos administration --> Configuration tab --> Data source connection --> odbc --> Dsn name(which we created in control panel--> odbc --> system dsn). step 2: Test the Connection. Note: we can create a datasource in another way in framework manager itself.In t he metadata wizard data source, you can create a new datasource. 2. Framework Manager Application Creation -------------------------------------------Step 1: File --> New.(give new framework manager project name). Note:1 List of recently used four projects will be displayed in FM after clickin g the framework manager module in start--> ibm cognos ---> framework manager. Note:2 we can remove list of recently used projects by <installationlocation>\c8 \configuration\bmt.ini and make sure your editor is set to save the file with UTF-8 encoding. Step 2: Choose English Language. Step 3: In Metadata Wizard, Select metadata source --> Data sources --> Select datasource which you created. Step 4: Choose the database and select tables which you want to use in your appl ication. Note: Default Namespace will be created based on your database's datasource name . namespace is a container which holds query subjects. Step 5: After getting the tables in your design, click the diagram on the right side and click the relationship button on extreme right. put the cardinality. cardinality must then only you can get correct value.this step we can establish a join between th e tables. Step 6: for formatting the column, select the column on the query subject and cl ick the formatting on properties windows of second bottom. Step 7: All Query Subjects has got data items. some data items has "L" symbol w hich means measures. we can assign data item as measure,identifier(relationship columns or numeric co lumn),Attributes means data item which has strings like names,dates.

Step 7: create a package for creating reports. while creating package, we need t o select only our tables database function list in function lists dialog box. Step 8: choose the location where you can store the package. whether you want to save the package in public folder or my folder. Step 9: Save the Framework Manager Project file. Note: framework manager project file is composed of .cpf and some xml files. 3.Testing Framework Manager Models -----------------------------------First Method: ------------Right click the tables and select test for testing the table. Second Method: --------------Select different data items from different query subjects using ctrl and select the dataitems and right click test. you can verify results and we can make sure proper relationship establishe d or not. 4.Adding New columns in the existing Query Subjects ----------------------------------------------------1.Select the query subject. 2.Goto Tools Menu --> Update Object. 5.Framework Manager Suggested Model Techniques ------------------------------------------------Database Layer - database tables. Business Layer - database tables+query subjects. Presentation Layer - Query Subjects Short cuts.publish this package as a main pa ckage for reporting. 6.Difference Between Folder and Namespace. ---------------------------------------------Folder can not have same name of query subjects. Namespace can have same name of query subjects. 7.Three Types of Query Subjects in the model ------------------------------------------------1. Data source.(importing from tables) 2. Model.(importing from existing query subject's dataitem) 3. Stored Procedure.(importing from oracle/sql server's stored procedure). 8.Parameter Map - to implement row level security and dynamic database selection .

9.Framework Manager filter types - Embedded Filter & Standalone filter. 10.we should not change the namespace name.if you must change a namespace name,y ou should analyze the impact of publishing your package with the changes by right clicking the package and choose analyze publish Impact. 11.Adding datasource using metadata wizard will add more than one query subjects but using datasource query subject wizard will add only one query at a time. 12.we can create query subjects in two ways. 1.Right click the namespace and select query subject.(we can not update newly ad ded column from the table,for this, we can modify the query definition. first we need to delete all the columns in s elect statement and add only select * like this). 2.In metadata wizard is another way of creating query subjects, we can update th e newly added column in query subject using tools --> update object. 13.We can filter the query subject,for this, double click the query subject and select the filter tab and add the filter. we can add mulitiple filter in a single query subject using "AND" Statem ent. 14. Determinants in Framework Manager --------------------------------------Granularity is a simple concept describing the level data relates to. Level1: Level2: Level3: Level4: Level5: Level6: Level7: Country Sales Area State City Store Department Employee

We can summarise sales volume (quantity) at each of the levels above. The level at which we report is the grain (or granularity) of the table. Tables or query subjects in Framework Manager often have multiple levels (grains ) which you may have to join to another table with a different level grain. An example of this is budgets. Using our example above, we want to join our sales area table to our budgets tab le. Unfortunately the grain of the sales area table is employee but the budgets have been completed at Store level.