Publishing packages

You publish a package to make the metadata available to your users. You create packages based on your user groups. Packages must contain all the information that a specific user or group of users needs to create reports.

The following tasks are involved when publishing packages:

Verify the model and repair any problems.
Analyze the model for potential modeling issues that you should examine before publishing the metadata.
Set security to restrict access to metadata and data across IBM® Cognos® products.
Specify the languages published with each package.
Create or modify a package.
Specify the suppression options that will be available to package users.
Publish the package.
Verify the package, and repair any problems.

When publishing packages, you have the option to externalize query subjects and dimensions to convert them to formats that you can use in IBM Cognos Transformer or in other applications.

Note: Externalizing queries will not be supported in future releases of Transformer.