Hi,

Is there any tools to convert Cognos Powerplay Cubes to Webfocus? Or How can I implement a cube functionality in IBI Webfocus ?

I am planing to get all the SQLs participated in the cube(IQD files) and create a materialised view then create a metadata against that.Is that approach good?

A breief description of Powerplay cube is given below as

Cognos Cube is an MDC file nothing but Multi Dimensional Cube. Cube is generated by PowerPlay Transformer Model with the help of IQD (Impromptu Query Definition) files.

Thanks and regards,
Johney Joseph.

Johney,

When you get a chance look-up the WebFOCUS OLAP functionality. This will wnable you to do cube-like functions.

If you put the data into a FOCUS database the 10-20X performance advantage vs rdbms will cancel out the loss of not having the data aggregated at dimension level. For very simple dimension structures you can aggregate by creating a focus file with a hierarcial structure.

eg
APP HOLD SAVEAREA
TABLE FILE X

SUM
quantity
BY DIM1

SUM
quantity
BY DIM1
BY DIM2

PRINT
quantity
BY DIM1
BY DIM2
BY DIM3

ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT XFOCUS
END

I would add to john's most excellent example...
ON TABLE HOLD AS something FORMAT XFOCUS INDEX DIM1 DIM2 DIM3
...
and then
CHECK FILE something PICTURE
which will show you the swell thing you've created...

Thanks everybody for their inputs.

I am going by the approach as I mentioned like, create a mat view with all the SQLs joined together and use the OLAP feature to report.

Regards,
Johney Joseph