Cognos Transformer objects

This section describes the objects required to build models in Cognos® Transformer and explains how to specify unique object identifiers, names, and locations in Model Definition Language (MDL).

An object is a definition of a particular component of the model. For example, the Locations data source object contains all the information in Cognos Transformer about the data source called Locations.

On the user interface, the Locations object is defined in the Data Source property sheet for Locations. In MDL, the same information is found in the MDL statement that defines the Locations data source object. The property sheet settings are represented in the MDL statement as options.

Each Cognos Transformer model must have at least one model object. The model may also contain one or more of each of the following object types:

Data Source
IBM® Cognos Source (an IBM Cognos package)
Column
Dimension
Level
Root Category
Drill Category
Regular Category
Special Category
Measure
PowerCube
PowerCubeGroup
PowerCubeGroupCube
Subdimension
Signon
View
Custom View
Currency Table
Currency
Dimension Calculation Definition

All Cognos Transformer objects have property sheets on the Cognos Transformer user interface. Only objects have property sheets.