Report model objects and their definitions

Use these definitions to work with IBM Verify Identity Governance Cognos® report models.

Query Items

The smallest piece of the model in a report. It represents a single characteristic of something, such as the date that a product was introduced.

Query subjects or dimensions contain query items. For example, a query subject that references an entire table contains query items that represent each column in the table.

Query items are the most important objects for creating reports. They use query item properties of query items to build their reports.

Query Subjects

A set of query items that have an inherent relationship. In most cases, query subjects behave like tables. Query subjects produce the same set of rows regardless of which columns were queried.

Packages

A subset of the dimensions, query subjects, and other objects that are defined in the project. A package is published to the IBM® Cognos server. It creates reports, analyses, and ad hoc queries.

Namespaces

Uniquely identifies query items, dimensions, query subjects, and other objects. You import different databases into separate namespaces to avoid duplicate names.