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Viewing Lineage Information
A data item's lineage information traces the item's metadata back through the
package and the package's data sources. Viewing lineage information ensures that
you add the correct data items to a report.
For more information, see “View Lineage Information for a Data Item” on page 80.
Hiding Entries
You can hide entries in IBM Cognos Connection and IBM Cognos Administration,
such as reports, packages, pages, folders, jobs, data sources, portlets, and so on.
This functionality is most often used with drill-through reports.
Hiding an entry does not affect its security policies.
For more information, see “Hide an Entry” on page 30.
Metric Studio Content in Portal Pages
An IBM Cognos Connection page or a dashboard can now display metric impact
diagrams and custom diagrams.
This new content can be added by using the following new portlets:
v Metrics Impact Diagram
Use to display impact diagrams associated with a metric.
v Metrics Custom Diagram
Use to display custom diagrams associated with a scorecard.
For more information, see Chapter 5, “Pages and Dashboards,” on page 53.
Save History Details for Job Steps
You can save history details for job steps when the run activity completes
successfully.
For more information, see “Job Properties” on page 24.
Enhanced Drill-through Capabilities
In earlier versions of IBM Cognos 8, model-based drill-through supported only
reports created in Analysis Studio, Query Studio, or Report Studio as targets. Other
types of drill-through targets are now supported. For example, you can drill
through to PowerPlay® Studio reports saved in the content store, or to a package
that contains a PowerCube.
In earlier versions of IBM Cognos 8, drill-through access required the existence of
parameters in the target. IBM Cognos 8 now allows dynamic filtering of the data.
In cases where more control is needed, you can continue to use the existing
parameterized drill-through.
You now also can restrict the availability of package drill-through definitions to
measures as well as other data when you set the scope.
If the source is based on a dimensional package, you can choose what property of
the source metadata item to map to the target. For example, you can map the
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