Getting started with Framework Manager

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. When you add security and multilingual capabilities, one model can serve the reporting, ad hoc querying, and analysis needs of many groups of users around the globe.

Before doing anything in IBM Cognos Framework Manager, you should thoroughly understand the reporting problem that you want to solve.

To get started, do the following:

Procedure

  1. Analyze the reporting problem.
  2. Learn about the objects you will use.
  3. Create or open a project.
  4. Explore the panes in Framework Manager.
  5. Explore the sample models included with Framework Manager.