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What is catalog and types of catalogs in Cognos and which is better

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Last Update: October 30, 2008 Asked by: chimpara reddy

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Submitted by: kiranbandari

A catalog is a file containing the information (Database tables) that Impromptu users need to create reports.

• personal • distributed • shared • secured

shared catalog is better

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March 16, 2006 17:31:23

kiranbandari

Member Since: December 2005 Contribution: 2

RE: what is catalog and types of catalogs in cagonos a...

A catalog is a file containing the information (Database tables) that Impromptu users need to create reports.

personal distributed shared secured

shared catalog is better

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March 23, 2006 12:02:12

sai_1344

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RE: what is catalog and types of catalogs in cagonos a...

types of catalog in cognos impromptu.

personal master distributed shared secured

master distributed catalog is better

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April 11, 2006 02:03:40

dharani cs

RE: what is catalog and types of catalogs in cagonos a...

4 tipes of catlogs we have in cognos

1.Personal Catlog: Only one user(Creator) can create/modify a catlog & report.

2.Shared Catlog: Only one user(Creator) can create/modify a catlog. But any body can create their own reports using this catlog.

3.Destributed Catlog: Here any body can change their own personal destributed catlogs they can create their own reports.

But no one can change the master distributed catlog.if u make any changes in master destributed catlog the changes will be effected to Personal destributed catlogs.

4.Secured catlog:No one can change the catlog & Report it is fully secured

Here better We can choose the Distributed Catlog.

Thanks----Dharani CS.

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June 23, 2006 06:33:00

saivenkatesh

Member Since: June 2006 Contribution: 11

RE: what is catalog and types of catalogs in cagonos a...

Catalog: a catalog is a file which contains folders columns conditions calculations and prompts.

1. Catalog does not contain any data.

2. It just contains the table structures and metadata definitions.

Types of Catalogs: in cognos we have '4' types of catalogs:

1. Distributed Catalog.

2. Personal Catalog.

3. Shared Catalog.

4. Secured Catalog.

In general we choose either Distributed Catalog (or) Shared Catalog.

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July 25, 2006 04:49:44

Pranuram

RE: what is catalog and types of catalogs in cagonos a...

A catalog is a set of instructions containing information about the data items to be retrieved and the database columns in a user friendly way.A catalog acts as an interface between the End-user and the data base thereby hiding the complexities of the data base.A catalog contains Folders Calculations Conditions(Filters) and prompts.Apart from these a catalog contain Metadata of the DB from where data has to be retrieved.There are four different types of catalogs available with CognosPersonal catalogDistributed CatalogShared Catalog and the secured CatalogThe Personal catalog is the default one. Only the creator can make use of it.The shared catalog means. A catalog is kept in a common server where users can access it to create reports using it.(A lan/wan is significant for users to work on a shared catalog)The drawback of this catalog is if the network traffic is high practical difficulties emerge and users can't continue with work at ease.A distributed catalog. The best catalog from my view because A copy is available with Master Distributed and users are given Personal copy of that.Any change in the master distributed reflects in the personal catalog.

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September 03, 2007 06:08:35

prudhvi.g

Member Since: September 2007 Contribution: 8

RE: what is catalog and types of catalogs in cagonos a...

Catalog is nothing but the data which is required to run an impromptu.
It acts as a bridge between datawarehouse and meta data.

We've 4 types of catalogs namely.

1. Personal Catalog
2. Distributed Catalog
3. Shared Catalog
4. Secured Catalog.

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October 09, 2008 11:59:29

Mehul@DWH

Member Since: February 2006 Contribution: 6

RE: What is catalog and types of catalogs in Cognos and which is better

Just an addition to the above description's Catalog also hold the relationships between the tables selected from the database.

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October 29, 2008 14:06:10

ramanaiahpidala

Member Since: October 2008 Contribution: 1

RE: What is catalog and types of catalogs in Cognos and which is better

Catalog contains metadata which is used retrieved by warehouse database is called catalog.
Actually 4 types
catalogs. They are
Personal catalog
Shared catalog
Secured catalog
Master Distributed catalog.

MDC is better one

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