October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
8h 47m
English
book
IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes
by Dmitriy Beryoza, Shilpa Bhimavarapu, Alan Blake, David Cushing, Vlaunir Da Silva, Mario Daigle, Avery Hagleitner, Ian Henderson, Beth Jubera, Skyla Loomis, Chris McPherson, Steven Rogers, Carlos Ruiz, Christopher Yao
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Chapter 4. Modeling dynamic cubes 81
Creating a slowly changing dimension as a parent-child dimension
Complete the following steps:
1. Select the gosldw_sales cube.
2. Right-click create parent-child dimension.
3. Expand EMP_EMPLOYEE_DIM in the Data Source Explorer tree.
4. Drag EMPLOYEE_NAME, EMPLOYEE_KEY, EMPLOYEE_CODE, MANAGER_CODE,
and MANAGER_KEY into the dimension.
5. Set EMPLOYEE_NAME as the member caption.
6. Set MANAGER_KEY as the parent.
7. Set EMPLOYEE_KEY as the child.
8. Set the relationship between the dimension and the measure dimension to use
EMPLOYEE_KEY for the dimension and EMPLOYEE_KEY for the measure dimension.
9. Publish the cube.
10.Expand the member tree for the dimension in Report Studio.
4.6.4 Modeling a slowly changing dimension ...
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