The HCL®
Cognos® applications
need their own data sources that identify the source of the data for HCL® Marketing
Software application
reports.
About this task
The HCL
Cognos data models that are provided
in the HCL Marketing
Software reports packages are configured to use the data source names that
are given in the following table:
Table 1. Cognos data sources This two-columned table provides information
about the HCL Marketing
Software application in one column, and the Cognos data source names in the second column.
HCL Marketing
Software application |
Cognos data source
names |
Campaign |
CampaignDS |
eMessage |
eMessageTrackDS
|
Interact |
- For the design time database: InteractDTDS
- For the runtime database: InteractRTDS
- For the learning database: InteractLearningDS
- For the ETL database: InteractETLDS
|
Marketing Operations |
MarketingOperationsDS |
Distributed Marketing |
- For the Distributed Marketing database:
CollaborateDS
- For the customer database: CustomerDS
- For the Campaign database:
CampaignDS
|
For more information about configuring Cognos data
sources, see HCL
Cognos Administration and Security Guide and the Cognos online help.
Use the following guidelines to create Cognos data
sources for the HCL application
databases.
Procedure
-
Use the Administration section of Cognos
Connection.
-
Use the default data source names that are shown in the Cognos data sources table to avoid having to alter the data model.
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The database type that you select must match that of the HCL application database. Use the Cognos documentation to determine how to fill database-specific
fields.
Note: For Campaign and eMessage, the appropriate database is Campaign.
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Be sure that you identify the HCL Marketing
Software
application database and not the Cognos content
store.
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When you configure the Signon section, select the
Password and Create a Signon that the Everyone group can
use options.
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In the Signon section, specify the user credentials for the HCL Marketing
Software application database user.
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Consult the Cognos data sources table and ensure that
you create all the data sources that are required by the data model for the reports you are
configuring.
For example, the reporting data for Interact is in three databases, so you must create
separate Cognos data sources for each database.
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If the Campaign system has more than one
partition, create separate data sources for each partition.
For example, if Campaign and eMessage are configured for multiple partitions, create
a separate Campaign and eMessage data source for each partition.
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Verify that you configured each data source correctly by using the Test
Connection feature.