Creating Data Source Connections to OLAP Data Sources

Samples are accessible to everyone by default. To create customized data sources, you must have execute permissions for the Data Source Connections secured feature, and traverse permissions for the Administration secured function. You must have write permissions for the Cognos namespace.

The OLAP samples are

• GO Sales Fact and GO Finance Fact Microsoft Analysis Services cubes
• Great Outdoors Company cubes which includes sales_and_marketing, employee_expenses, go_accessories, go_americas, go_asia_pacific, and great_outdoors_sales_en.
• Great Outdoors DB2® cube

You must create data source connections to the cubes to use the samples. You must set up the Microsoft Analysis Services cube samples, or set up the Oracle Essbase cube sample, if you are using them, before creating data source connections.