kiranbandari

 Profile Answers by kiranbandari 

• Mar 16th, 2006

 

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

 

sai_1344

 Profile Answers by sai_1344 

• Mar 23rd, 2006

 

hi

types of catalog in cognos impromptu.

personal,master distributed,shared,secured

master distributed catalog is better

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dharani cs

• Apr 11th, 2006

 

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.

saivenkatesh

 Profile Answers by saivenkatesh 

• Jun 23rd, 2006

 

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.

Pranuram

• Jul 25th, 2006

 

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.

prudhvi.g

 Profile Answers by prudhvi.g 

• Sep 3rd, 2007

 

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.

Mehul@DWH

 Profile Answers by Mehul@DWH 

• Oct 9th, 2008

 

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

ramanaiahpidala

 Profile Answers by ramanaiahpidala 

• Oct 29th, 2008

 

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

maryjane

• Mar 7th, 2017

 

A catalog is an inventory of bookkeeping of the librarys contents.

Cornelius Goodwin

• Jul 7th, 2017

 

Catalogs have not been used since Impromptu