Introduction

IBM® Cognos® Framework Manager is a metadata modeling tool. A model is a business presentation of the information in one or more data sources. When you add security and multilingual capabilities to this business presentation, one model can serve the needs of many groups of users around the globe.

This document includes the procedures, examples, notes, tips, and other background information to help you prepare a model for reporting and deploying a package.

Audience

This document is intended to help data modelers use IBM Cognos Framework Manager. Before using Framework Manager, you should understand data modeling and how to write queries.

Finding information

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Forward-looking statements

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Accessibility Features

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