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IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook
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IBM Cognos 8 Report Studio Cookbook

by Abhishek Sanghani
June 2010
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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Level independent MUN for parent child hierarchy

Some multi-dimensional databases provide facility to define parent-child hierarchy. I believe this is one of the strongest features of MSAS cube. This recipe will talk about the Member Unique Name for a member from parent-child hierarchy and how to make it level independent.

Please note that the feature of parent-child hierarchy is not available in PowerPlay. So if you are using the PowerPlay cube for practice, you won't be able to perform this recipe.

Getting ready

Create a simple crosstab report with Organization Code2 on rows and Current Year on columns. Drag Stmt Year in the intersection.

How to do it...

  1. We will first add a member from parent-child hierarchy on the report. GO Sales cube comes with ...
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