Rule objects

Cube rules expand the standard hierarchical consolidation operations that you may define within a dimension.

For most applications, these simple consolidations are enough to cover the bulk of the calculations required.

For more complex calculations, such as multiplication, division, financial functions, and so on, IBM® Cognos® TM1® provides the cube rules multidimensional language. Please refer to other TM1 documents for details on how to write rules.

Rules are written as a series of statements, which are permanently stored as an ASCII file. When the rule is loaded, it is stored in memory in its original form. The rule statements are checked for syntax and consistency, and translated into a compact form for execution.