What is Framework Manager?

IBM Cognos Framework Manager is a metadata modeling tool that drives query generation for IBM Cognos software. A model is a collection of metadata that includes physical information and business information for one or more data sources.

When you work in IBM Cognos Framework Manager, you work with a number of objects that are contained in a project.

Projects:

A project contains a model, namespaces, packages, data sources, and related information for maintaining and sharing model information. A single project can span many data sources or tables.

An IBM Cognos Framework Manager project displays as a folder that contains a project file (.cpf) and the specific .xml files that define the project. The files in a project folder are unique to each project. The project and its associated files are contained in a project folder.

Models:

A model is the set of related query subjects and other objects required for the related reporting application.

Namespaces:

A namespace uniquely identifies query items, query subjects, and other objects.

Packages:

A package is what is actually published to the IBM Cognos BI server and is used to create reports, analyses, and ad hoc queries.

Query Subjects:

A query subject is a set of query items that have an inherent relationship. In most cases, query subjects behave like tables.

Query Items:

Query items are contained in query subjects. For example, a query subject that references an entire table contains query items that represent each column in the table.