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Report Authoring—Dimensional Data
IBM Cognos Report Studio offers users many ways of viewing and structuring report data to fulfill report requirements. When you incorporate dimensional structures into your reports in Cognos Report Studio, you turn the analysis report into a highly formatted presentation. Chapter 10 discussed reporting using relational data sources. This chapter describes how to use the advanced features in Cognos Report Studio to create effective dimensional reports. You will learn about dimensional structures and their uses and important functions that will help you leverage the dimensional data structures.
Model Types and Dimensional Structure
Two types of models are used in Cognos Report Studio: relational and ...

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