IBM® Predictive Maintenance and Quality uses IBM Cognos® Framework Manager to model the metadata for reports.
IBM Cognos Framework Manager is a metadata modeling tool that drives query generation for IBM Cognos software. A model is a collection of metadata that includes physical information and business information for one or more data sources. IBM Cognos software enables performance management on normalized and denormalized relational data sources and a variety of OLAP data sources.
For information on modifying or creating Framework Manager models, see the IBM Cognos Framework Manager User Guide and IBM Cognos Framework Manager - Guidelines for Modeling Metadata. These documents are available at IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Knowledge Center (http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J).
The Framework Manager model consists of three layers:
Each of these layers is in a separate namespace. The dimensional layer is published to a package for use in reporting.