Data Movement Entries

Data Manager creates data warehouses and data repositories by

• extracting operational data from multiple sources
• transforming and merging the data to facilitate enterprise-wide reporting and analysis
• delivering the transformed data to coordinated data marts

Data Manager can be used to transfer data into single database tables and, where more complex transformations are required, to populate data warehouse fact tables and dimension tables.

Data Manager integrates with other IBM Cognos Business Intelligence products by delivering metadata to Framework Manager. This allows target data warehouse and data repositories to be modeled and used in IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence and Performance Management projects.

For more information, see the Data Manager User Guide.

In IBM Cognos software, Data Manager tasks are contained in a data movement entry. After a data movement entry is published to IBM Cognos software, use IBM Cognos Connection to do the following:

• run the entry
• change default properties
• create a data movement view

You can schedule data movement entries to run at a specified time or based on a trigger, such as a database refresh or an email Schedule Management. If you want to use an agent Agents for a data movement entry, include the entry as part of a job Use Jobs to Schedule Multiple Entries, and then include the job in an agent.

You can view the run histories for data movement entries View the Run History for Entries, and rerun failed data movement entries Rerun a Failed Entry Task.