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This presentation discusses how IBM Cognos business intelligence tools can help IT professionals empower business users to make better decisions while also meeting IT requirements for performance, compliance, and scalability. It provides an overview of IBM Cognos 8 BI and its reporting, analysis, dashboard, and planning capabilities. It also summarizes new features in version 8.4 like annotations, improved charts, greater mobile interactivity, and expanded Excel analysis. Finally, it describes IBM Cognos TM1 as an in-memory OLAP engine for planning and analysis with familiar Excel and web interfaces.
SharePoint Developer Education Day Palo Altollangit
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Crystal Reports 2008 provides several new features for report designers and users:
1. Report designers can now integrate Flash, Flex, and Xcelsius files to add interactive visualizations and dashboards to reports. Designers also have enhanced productivity tools and the ability to include barcodes in reports.
2. Report users see improvements like interactive report viewing, sorting, filtering and formatting without rerunning queries. Parameters are also now displayed in a panel.
3. Developers have new options for flexible report deployment including saving reports directly to crystalreports.com and improved XML exporting for integration with other systems. Web service data access has also been enhanced.
BusinessObjects XI Release 2 builds on the leading business intelligence platform and delivers improved simplicity, increased data trust, and standardization opportunities. Key features include enhanced search capabilities, Voyager for data exploration, Xcelsius for dashboards, Desktop Intelligence, Live Office integration, and improved administration tools. Data Integrator was also enhanced with improved metadata management and developer productivity.
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SharePoint Developer Education Day Palo Altollangit
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Crystal Reports 2008 provides several new features for report designers and users:
1. Report designers can now integrate Flash, Flex, and Xcelsius files to add interactive visualizations and dashboards to reports. Designers also have enhanced productivity tools and the ability to include barcodes in reports.
2. Report users see improvements like interactive report viewing, sorting, filtering and formatting without rerunning queries. Parameters are also now displayed in a panel.
3. Developers have new options for flexible report deployment including saving reports directly to crystalreports.com and improved XML exporting for integration with other systems. Web service data access has also been enhanced.
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This document provides an update on the arcplan company and its product lines. It discusses the large size of the business intelligence market, positions arcplan Enterprise as the most flexible business intelligence application engine, and outlines arcplan's strategic direction in targeting performance management, planning, and detailed analysis users. The update also reviews arcplan's guiding principles, identity, and its one integrated platform spanning analytic services, applications, and the arcplan Enterprise server.
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SuccessFactors 2H 2021 Sneak Peek by Deloitte GermanyChristoph Pohl
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Adobe Acrobat Professional is recommended as the top solution for small enterprises needing electronic forms with a limited budget. It allows forms to be created in PDF format, which can then be filled out using the free and ubiquitous Adobe Reader. The total cost is under $10,000 as only the form designer needs Acrobat Professional. FormDocs and Returnable Forms were also identified as options, but have limitations like proprietary form formats or only supporting Windows. Microsoft InfoPath was identified as more suitable for larger enterprises due to licensing costs associated with the need for all users to have InfoPath to fill forms. Excel and Word can be sufficient for basic internal e-forms if the organization is already using those applications.
PBRS is a Power BI Reports Scheduler that allows users to schedule Power BI reports and dashboards to run automatically and send the reports to various destinations like email, disk, Dropbox, SharePoint, FTP in different formats like Excel, PDF, CSV. It provides features like single and package schedules, data driven scheduling using filters from a database, event based schedules triggered by system events, and date/time scheduling including custom frequencies. The software also includes options for pre/post delivery workflows using custom tasks.
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1) Admins can now configure up to 3 additional job or custom fields to display in the employee quickcard, employment switcher, and profile.
2) A new transaction allows admins to hire an employee and end their employment in one step, triggering a single approval workflow.
3) Succession data models can now be created for employees in addition to contingent workers and onboardees.
4) Several enhancements have been made to benefits administration, business rules, APIs, ERP integration, and data management capabilities.
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Integrating scalable bi reporting and dashboards into any applicationBob Report
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- OBIEE 10g and 11g are based on N-tier architectures while Cognos uses a web-based service-oriented architecture.
- OBIEE 10g and 11g require desktop tools for repository development and management while Cognos 8.2 is platform independent.
- OBIEE 11g improved support for clustering, load balancing, and in-memory capabilities compared to earlier versions.
- All three support integration with external applications, single sign-on, and LDAP integration for security. However,
API Enablement on Mainframes. How to API enable mainframe applications & services. How to integrated mainframe services and applications to mobile, cloud and external apps. This white paper covers couple of patterns to API enable mainframe based applications and services.
• Jothi Periasamy
• SAP GL ,
• SAP ECC ,
• BPC,
• BI ,
• Conversion file ,
• Transformation file ,
• Data File
• SAP BPC Data Manager
• SAP BPC Data Load
MAIA is a large Indian business intelligence product company with over 50,000 licensed users and 300 customers in India, the Middle East, and Africa. Some of its key products include 1KEY Agile BI Suite for reporting and analysis, 1KEY FCM for financial consolidation, and postXBRL for business reporting. MAIA has received several awards and recognition for its product innovation leadership in business intelligence. It offers solutions like 1KEY Cube for multi-dimensional analysis and 1KEY Touch Dashboard for rich interactive dashboards. MAIA's hybrid BI architecture provides an easy to deploy platform for online and offline reporting and analytics.
The document discusses various third-party tools available for the IBM i (iSeries/AS400) platform. It describes tools for software development, system administration and monitoring, reporting and business intelligence, document management, barcoding, job scheduling and database management. Specific products mentioned include tools for source control, change management, performance monitoring, menu management, automated operations, web application development, and more.
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Adobe Acrobat Professional is recommended as the top solution for small enterprises needing electronic forms with a limited budget. It allows forms to be created in PDF format, which can then be filled out using the free and ubiquitous Adobe Reader. The total cost is under $10,000 as only the form designer needs Acrobat Professional. FormDocs and Returnable Forms were also identified as options, but have limitations like proprietary form formats or only supporting Windows. Microsoft InfoPath was identified as more suitable for larger enterprises due to licensing costs associated with the need for all users to have InfoPath to fill forms. Excel and Word can be sufficient for basic internal e-forms if the organization is already using those applications.
PBRS is a Power BI Reports Scheduler that allows users to schedule Power BI reports and dashboards to run automatically and send the reports to various destinations like email, disk, Dropbox, SharePoint, FTP in different formats like Excel, PDF, CSV. It provides features like single and package schedules, data driven scheduling using filters from a database, event based schedules triggered by system events, and date/time scheduling including custom frequencies. The software also includes options for pre/post delivery workflows using custom tasks.
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This compilation is not intended to be complete, but rather a snippet of features which customers often request or can be seen as a major enhancement with great impact.
Q2 2019 EC Platform Quick Review by Deloitte GermanyChristoph Pohl
The document provides a quick preview of new features and enhancements for the Q2 2019 release of SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central and Platform. Key highlights include:
1) Admins can now configure up to 3 additional job or custom fields to display in the employee quickcard, employment switcher, and profile.
2) A new transaction allows admins to hire an employee and end their employment in one step, triggering a single approval workflow.
3) Succession data models can now be created for employees in addition to contingent workers and onboardees.
4) Several enhancements have been made to benefits administration, business rules, APIs, ERP integration, and data management capabilities.
H1 2021 EC-Platform Quick Review by Deloitte GermanyChristoph Pohl
The new release is available since Monday this week on all preview instances and therefore I created a new Quick Review with a focus on Employee Central and Platform.
This compilation is not intended to be complete, but should rather be treated as a snippet of features which customers often request or which can be seen as major enhancements with great impact.
This document outlines a course on reporting systems using Oracle BI Publisher. The course objectives are to explain BI Publisher concepts and uses, advantages of reporting with BI Publisher, and how to create, deploy, and maintain BI Publisher reports. The agenda covers an overview of BI Publisher, installing the desktop, creating reports using templates, formatting, and administering BI Publisher within Oracle E-Business Suite.
How a tactical HATS solution became a strategic asset - A Customer StoryStrongback Consulting
The document summarizes IBM's Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) solution and how it was implemented by Total System Services (TSYS) to address challenges around modernizing legacy green screen applications. HATS was used to transform TSYS's core credit/debit card processing applications, which consisted of thousands of 3270 green screens, to enable access through a web interface. This allowed TSYS to improve the user experience and offer services through different delivery channels while avoiding replacing the existing applications.
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JReport is a scalable business intelligence and reporting platform that allows embedding reports and dashboards into any application. It features high performance in-memory cubes and server clustering. JReport also offers self-service reporting, ad hoc analysis, and the ability to connect to various data sources. It provides development tools, customizable templates, and integration options to build and deploy embedded analytics solutions. JReport powers reporting and analytics for customers across many industries globally.
Product Analysis Oracle BI Applications IntroductionAcevedoApps
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The document compares the architecture of Cognos 8.2, OBIEE 10g, and OBIEE 11g across several features. Some key differences include:
- OBIEE 10g and 11g are based on N-tier architectures while Cognos uses a web-based service-oriented architecture.
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- OBIEE 11g improved support for clustering, load balancing, and in-memory capabilities compared to earlier versions.
- All three support integration with external applications, single sign-on, and LDAP integration for security. However,
API Enablement on Mainframes. How to API enable mainframe applications & services. How to integrated mainframe services and applications to mobile, cloud and external apps. This white paper covers couple of patterns to API enable mainframe based applications and services.
• Jothi Periasamy
• SAP GL ,
• SAP ECC ,
• BPC,
• BI ,
• Conversion file ,
• Transformation file ,
• Data File
• SAP BPC Data Manager
• SAP BPC Data Load
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The document discusses various third-party tools available for the IBM i (iSeries/AS400) platform. It describes tools for software development, system administration and monitoring, reporting and business intelligence, document management, barcoding, job scheduling and database management. Specific products mentioned include tools for source control, change management, performance monitoring, menu management, automated operations, web application development, and more.
What is the Power BI and learn the Power BI by self and this presentation contains some use full links which help us at time of developing the Power BI.
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The document provides an overview of the InnovizeIT for DB2 product, which offers application performance improvement through comprehensive analysis of DB2 systems, application components, and SQL code. The product analyzes DB2 catalog tables, application access information, and SQL syntax to identify performance issues. It then provides recommendations to address the issues through changes to DB2 definitions, SQL statements, indexing, or code optimization. The analysis can be performed on-site or remotely, and the recommendations are designed to reduce CPU usage, increase throughput, and shorten batch windows.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) offers significantly improved memory availability and parallel processing performance compared to the 32-bit version. It is optimized for 64-bit processors like Itanium 2, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon. The 64-bit architecture allows for a larger addressable memory space, enhanced parallelism up to 64 processors, and faster data movement. These advantages enable SQL Server 2005 (64-bit) to handle more complex workloads, consolidate databases, and scale processing demands better than the 32-bit version. The document discusses considerations for choosing the 64-bit version and deployment best practices.
David Ortiz is a solutions architect with over 10 years of experience implementing BI projects. He holds several Microsoft certifications including MCITP for SQL Server 2008 BI. The document discusses different reporting technologies in Microsoft BI and how they could be used for different user profiles, including business BI, scorecards, static reporting, and dashboards. Business BI users may use Excel, PowerPivot, Power View or SSRS Report Builder. Scorecards can be created in Excel, PerformancePoint, or SSRS. Static reporting is generally done in SSRS. Dashboards can utilize PowerPivot, SSRS, or PerformancePoint.
- The document discusses how a company used Power BI to analyze usage data from SAP Cockpit and SharePoint to identify sub-accounts illegally setting up services. Power BI dashboards were created using this data to track monthly usage and identify accounts exceeding budgets. This helped the company apply charges and forecast future usage needs. The process involved exporting data from SAP Cockpit to SharePoint then importing to Power BI Desktop to create reports and dashboards, which were then published to Power BI web.
Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-8800/4800 v4 EAMG 2.0Intel IT Center
This set of Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800/4800 v4 family proof points spans several key business segments. The Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800/4800 v4 product family delivers the horsepower for real-time, high-capacity data analysis that can help businesses derive rapid actionable insights to deliver innovative new services and customer experiences. With high performance, industry’s largest memory, robust reliability, and hardware-enhanced security features, the E7-8800/4800 v4 is optimal for scale-up platforms, delivering rapid in-memory computing for today’s most demanding real-time data and transaction-intensive workloads.
This document provides an overview of multi-dimensional modeling techniques used to create BI InfoCubes. It discusses:
1. The goals of multi-dimensional data models which are to present information to analysts in a way that corresponds to their business understanding and to provide a structure that software can access for analysis.
2. The basic modeling steps which include understanding the business process, creating an entity relationship model, translating this to a multi-dimensional model/star schema, and then implementing this in InfoCubes within the BI system.
3. Key concepts of multi-dimensional modeling including dimensions, facts, star schemas with dimension tables surrounding a central fact table, and granularity determined by the most atomic attributes.
This document reviews IBM's DB2 database software. It provides details on IBM's history, DB2 features such as in-memory optimization and SQL compatibility, benefits like lower costs and improved performance, and examples of how DB2 can be used in industries like insurance, retail, banking, and telecommunications. Hardware, software, and cloud-based deployment requirements are also summarized.
IBM Cognos BI is a web-based reporting and analytics tool that allows users to perform data aggregation and create detailed, user-friendly reports. It provides flexible reporting and can be used by large and medium enterprises. Cognos benefits companies by leveraging data insights, offering scenario planning tools, transforming businesses to be more proactive, enabling easy dashboard creation, and allowing dynamic report design.
IBM Cognos BI is a web-based reporting and analytics tool that allows users to perform data aggregation and create detailed, user-friendly reports. It provides flexible reporting and can be used by large and medium enterprises. Benefits of Cognos include leveraging hidden data insights, scenario planning tools, transforming to a proactive organization, easy dashboard creation, and dynamic report design.
SQL Server 2005 Everywhere Edition Value Propositionbutest
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Software Factories in the Real World: How an IBM WebSphere Integration Factor...ghodgkinson
This document discusses how an automotive retailer set up an efficient software factory using IBM tools like Rational Software Architect and WebSphere Message Broker to integrate a new point of sale system with their SAP backend. The software factory employed techniques like model-driven development and continuous integration to help scale development and keep customers satisfied. Key practices that helped succeed included tighter architectural control using Rational Software Architect models and service definitions, and keeping the distributed team coordinated using Rational Team Concert for planning, source control, and tracking progress across locations. The integrated approach and tools helped the retailer successfully complete the large integration project.
Detailed report of IBM's 30TB Hadoop-DS report showing that IBM InfoSphere BigInsights (SQL-on-Hadoop) is able to execute all 99 TPC-DS queries at scale over native Hadoop data formats. Written by Simon Harris, Abhayan Sundararajan, John Poelman and Matthew Emmerton.
The document provides an overview of various business intelligence reporting tools including SAP BEx Analyzer, SAP Web Application Designer, SAP BEx Web Analyzer, SAP Business Objects Voyager, Crystal Reports, Xcelsius, SAP Business Objects Web Intelligence, and SAP Visual Composer. It describes the key features of each tool and includes a comparison chart of their features to help users choose the right tool for their reporting needs.
The document discusses IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems, which allows users to search, analyze, and gain insights from log and metric data from mainframe and distributed systems. It provides out-of-the-box functionality for analyzing z/OS, WebSphere, DB2, CICS, IMS, MQ, network, and security logs, which can be customized. New features in 2015 include network and security insights, integration with service management tools, and analysis of SMF performance metrics. The solution allows users to rapidly search logs, correlate issues, and access expert knowledge to reduce problem resolution times.
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3. Table of contents
Query/400 to DB2 Web Query ....................................................................................................1
Time for a new offering: DB2 Web Query .............................................................................................. 2
What is different about DB2 Web Query? .............................................................................................. 2
Base Product 5733QU2 .................................................................................................... 3
Three Data Adapters ................................................................................................... 4
Three Web-Based Report Authoring Tools ....................................................................... 5
DB2 Web Query Reporting Server.................................................................................. 6
i5/OS Integrated Web Application Server........................................................................ 6
Additional Components ..................................................................................................... 6
Active Reports (5733QU2 Option 1) ............................................................................... 6
OLAP (5733QU2 Option 2)............................................................................................ 7
Developer Workbench (5733QU2 option 3) ..................................................................... 8
Runtime User Enablement (5733QU2 Option 4; Available Only with V1R1M1) ...................... 8
The future ............................................................................................................................................... 9
Summary ................................................................................................................................................ 9
Resources..................................................................................................................................10
About the author .......................................................................................................................10
Acknowledgements ..................................................................................................................10
Trademarks and special notices..............................................................................................11
IBM White paper title here
4. Query/400 to DB2 Web Query
If you have been following recent IT industry trends, you may have noticed that there has been a lot of
activity in the area of Business Intelligence (BI). Mergers, major acquisitions, and announcements have
dominated the headlines in the past year. IBM has been quite active in this area as well. The recent
acquisition of Cognos and the announcement of the Dynamic Data Warehouse Initiative are evidence of
this. But IBM's i5/OS investment in and commitment to BI has not just been recent; it has been a point of
emphasis in the last several releases, going back to V4R1. Consider some of the following database
enhancements that have been built into the operating system over the last decade and beyond:
SQL Query Engine (SQE)
On Demand Performance Center
Database Parallelism
Materialized Query Tables
Encoded Vector Indexing
Remote Journaling
Autonomic Indexes
Index Advisor
Database Monitors
OmniFind Text Search Server
Grouping functions (cube, rollup, and grouping sets)
While many enhancements have been made in the database, one area where little was done was a query
and reporting tool that could take advantage of these enhancements. Until recently, Query/400 was one
of the few IBM i5/OS offerings in this area; and while it was a very successful and popular product, it
simply wasn't keeping pace with today's demanding BI requirements. For starters, all aspects of the tool's
interfaces (report development, end user invocation, and output formats) are text-based and limited to the
green-screen. Another major drawback is that all Query/400 requests are processed by the Classic Query
Engine (CQE). This query optimizer technology is not taking advantage of the latest in IBM technology,
and products like Query/400 that do not leverage standard SQL interfaces will (for the foreseeable future)
only be able to use the less intelligent and poorer performing CQE. In fact, CQE has received no major
enhancements in several years. IBM has been focusing on SQE, a redesigned database engine that is
more efficient and provides more features. At this time, only standard SQL requests are processed by
SQE. The result is that Query/400 is unable to leverage the latest database technologies and generally
exhibits poorer performance, with limited analysis tools to understand the poor performance.
Interestingly, Query/400 continues to be used by almost every customer. However, the usage of
Query/400 is often relegated to being a data extraction tool in a process of moving the data to another
database. Over the past several months, while teaching workshops or presenting at conferences or
through Webinars, I often poll the audience to get a count of Query/400 usage. Nearly everyone responds
that they are using Query/400. However, when I ask how many are using Query/400 as their primary
database analysis tool, the number of respondents is a small percentage! It's quite clear that Query/400,
while useful and easy to use, simply does not have the functions and features that customers are looking
for. Some of those things include the following:
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5. Ability to select a column and drill down to the next level of detail
Conditional styling (also known as traffic lighting) to make certain facts in the report stand out
Graph generation: Bar charts, pie charts, and other graphical data representations are essential
in order to give users the ability to quickly consume and comprehend the data
Modern output formats such as spreadsheets, PDFs, and HTML to the Web browser
Parameterization and ad hoc report: Ability to allow report consumers to select the information
they want to see via selection parameters and then have the report filter the data based on the
parameters specified
Dashboards: A single view for executives or business analysts to see how the business is
performing compared to key performance metrics. The single view is graphical and allows a
one-stop shopping view for many data points that would otherwise be delivered in an untimely
or incomprehensible manner. Information can be complex in nature and can originate from a
variety of data sources. Graphical elements such as graphs, gauges, and charts are combined
with high-level views to provide a visually rich, single interface so that users can quickly
comprehend the information they are looking for.
Interactive analysis: When users analyze a report, sometimes the data reveals aspects that raise
even more questions. In order to answer those questions, the analyst needs to look at the data in
different ways (drilling down, drilling up, slicing and dicing the data).
Time for a new offering: DB2 Web Query
To fill this void, IBM partnered with Information Builders Incorporated to deliver DB2 Web Query for
System i to the marketplace. Information Builders is an IBM Business Partner that has been in the
information and reporting business for over 30 years and has long been a leader in delivering BI solutions
to their customers. In fact, their WebFOCUS product, recognized by Gartner Group (an industry analyst)
as a top BI software product, runs on many platforms (including i5/OS).
The DB2 Web Query product is essentially a subset of WebFOCUS, one that runs natively on i5/OS. The
product is sold, marketed, and supported by IBM and in fact is packaged as Licensed Program Product
(LPP) 5733QU2 and is installed by using the familiar RSTLICPGM interface.
It must be stressed that while a very powerful product, DB2 Web Query is not WebFOCUS. There are
many features in WebFOCUS that are not included in DB2 Web Query. The objective of this product is to
provide a query and reporting tool to meet the majority of the BI needs of most System i shops.
WebFOCUS is based on the powerful FOCUS 4GL programming language, which supports, behind the
scenes, DB2 Web Query. But for a full 4GL implementation to enable highly customized query or
application logic, WebFOCUS would be the recommended solution.
What is different about DB2 Web Query?
Unlike many BI solutions, DB2 Web Query was designed as a solution for customers running their
business on the System i, with a majority of their data in DB2 for i5/OS, and their IT infrastructure built
around that platform. And unlike those other solutions, DB2 Web Query allows you to query your data in
DB2 for i5/OS, enabling you to leverage the advantages provided by a database that is tightly integrated
IBM White paper title here
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6. with the operating system: database optimization, security, backup, change management, and other
procedures and policies. This greatly simplifies the delivery of information to users without a requirement
for server farms, data replication, and a completely new set of administration processes and procedures.
It is designed as a Web-based product, minimizing client configuration, licensing, and administration. All
components of DB2 Web Query reside in a single installation of i5/OS, including the Web application
server, the reporting server, the database engine, the metadata files, and the report definitions.
Other available BI solutions also claim to run natively on System i. A key advantage that DB2 Web Query
has over some of these is its ability to generate SQL for data access, thereby leveraging the new SQL
Query Engine (SQE). Other solutions rely exclusively on data access techniques such as OPNQRYF and
the QQQQRY APIs. These technologies are still supported and do a fine job of data retrieval and
manipulation, but all of these non-SQL requests are processed by the older CQE technology. The
advantages of SQE over CQE are many and are well-documented in other publications (see the IBM
Redbook Preparing for and Tuning the SQL Query Engine on DB2 for i5/OS, SG24-6598), but to
summarize, here are the primary SQE benefits:
Better access methods and smarter techniques to retrieve, sort, join, and group data, which result
in better overall performance
Ability to use more features: Only SQE can utilize new database technologies such as Autonomic
Indexing, Materialized Query Tables (MQTs), and the ability to cache query results.
Better optimization and performance tools: Only queries processed by SQE will have their plans
stored in the SQE plan cache, an internal matrix-like repository that stores plans and statements
processed by the new engine. Tooling available in the System i Navigator product provides an
interface to easily access this valuable source of information.
Base Product 5733QU2
The base option for DB2 Web Query includes the development tools and runtime necessary to create
a standard, Web-based query and reporting environment. With the base option, you can create
reports and graphs that far surpass anything you could do with Query/400.
The product follows a pricing model that is based on the server's processor tier. This means, for
example, that a company with a P30 tier will pay more for the product than one that installs it on a
P10 tier. Each tier comes with a number of entitled user licenses. Every i5/OS user profile that needs
to develop or run reports requires a user license and must be registered using the license manager
component of the product. If you need more named user licenses than the tier provides, you can
purchase more (at a flat fee per license). However, another option exists to support users through a
single or a minimum number of user licenses, and that is the Run Time User Enablement option.
More information on that option is provided later in this article.
When you order product id 5733QU2 base option, the following components are included:
IBM White paper title here
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7. Three data adapters to interface with the database
Three Web-based report authoring tools
DB2 Web Query Reporting Server and meta data storage
IBM's Integrated Web Application Server
Three Data Adapters
DB2 Web Query uses three data adapter technologies to access the data in DB2 for i5/OS. Each
adapter is used to not only access data, but also create and manage the product's metadata layer
(also known as synonyms). Synonyms provide an abstraction layer that describes to DB2 Web
Query the overall structure of the data source as well as the specific data elements (field names,
field types, etc.). Before you create reports or graphs against any data source, you must first
create a synonym for that data source.
Depending on your requirements, you will use one or more of the following data adapters:
DB2 CLI Adapter
When a synonym is created using the DB2 CLI adapter, the adapter will convert the
report specifications (sort columns, display columns, selection parameters, etc.) into one
or more SQL statements. This SQL statement is ultimately submitted to the DB2 for
i5/OS engine from the DB2 Reporting Server using Call Level Interface (CLI). The use of
SQL as the database access method is quite important because when that SQL
statement is executed, the database will try to use SQE to process the request. If no
SQE inhibitors prevent this from happening, the report will (in most cases) run faster than
a request in which the underlying synonym is based on one of the two other adapters. In
other words, if you want to take full advantage of SQE, your objective should be to use
this adapter for all synonyms. However, this is not always possible, so two other adapters
are provided.
Query/400 Adapter
This adapter is all about investment protection. It allows shops with many *QRYDFN
objects to leverage their significant investment by importing these objects into DB2 Web
Query. This will allow most Query/400 objects to be brought into DB2 Web Query
unchanged and run through DB2 Web Query. The output can be Webified or imported
into other modern output formats such as PDF, Active Reports, and Excel spreadsheets.
However, as mentioned previously, database access for Query/400 requests is handled
by CQE, not SQE. During benchmark testing done in Rochester, we observed some
categories of queries that ran more than 10 times faster when the reports were
developed based on DB2 CLI adapter synonyms.
DB Heritage Adapter
Do your legacy applications use multi-format logical files or multi-member physical files?
Did you know that SQL does not support these file types? Fear not, as the DB Heritage
adapter allows DB2 Web Query to access and report against these files. This adapter
uses the OPNQRYF command as the mechanism to access the files. While, like
Query/400, OPNQRYF does not use SQE, this adapter does allow you to protect
significant investments made in the multi-format and multi-member file types.
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8. Three Web-Based Report Authoring Tools
The base option of 5733QU2 comes with three tools that developers can use to create modern
reports and graphs:
Report Assistant
A report development tool that provides an easy-to-use, graphical environment for report
creation and maintenance. Its intuitive interface eliminates the need for report authors to
know database syntax and terminology, allowing them to focus on business logic to
quickly create meaningful reports. In addition, its features accommodate several of the BI
requirements listed previously. Those features include the following:
Drill-down capabilities
Conditional styling/traffic lighting
Twelve output formats (including HTML, PDF, Excel spreadsheet, XML)
On-demand paging to allow users to jump to a specific page in a large report
Parameter-driven reporting for ad hoc capabilities
Graph Assistant
A development tool for creating and editing graphs. It has the same general look and feel
as Report Assistant, and in fact offers the same drill-down, conditional styling, output
formats, and ad hoc features that Report Assistant does. But unlike Report Assistant, it
includes several additional interfaces for selecting the types of graphs you want, as well
as ways to customize the pie slices, bars, and x-y axis properties. If you're looking for a
specific kind of graph to impress your management, Graph Assistant has over 120
different kinds of charts and graphs to choose from.
Power Painter
A report and graph creation utility. It can also be used as a layout tool for creating
composite reports (reports that show multiple reports and graphs from one interface).
Although its primary purpose is for creating reports in the PDF format, it can direct the
output to HTML, Active Reports, and Excel spreadsheets. It is based on AJAX and Web
2.0 technologies, which means that there is an extensive amount of activity and
communication between the client application and the server. As such, it does consume
and require more memory on both the client side and on the server. It may appear that
there is some overlap between Graph Assistant and Power Painter. This is somewhat
true, but there are some differences. A common question is, When would you use
Power Painter instead of Graph Assistant? Power Painter should be used when you
want do the following:
Create composite reports to spreadsheets or PDFs
Create graphs that require advanced graphing features that Graph Assistant
does not support. Examples of this include customized minimum/maximum
values shown in a graph and ability to customize the increments (grid steps) of
the graph.
Use a development tool that is more of a What You See is What You Get
(WYSIWYG) type of experience. The Power Painter interface is generally
considered more modern and provides this type of experience to the developer.
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9. DB2 Web Query Reporting Server
The DB2 Web Query Reporting Server is the workhorse that resides between the DB2 Web
Query users and the database. It employs the data adapters to translate user queries and report
requests into SQL statements, performs additional tasks to properly format the results, and
delivers the content to the specified output format, ensuring ease of use and efficient requests for
the database.
i5/OS Integrated Web Application Server
In V5R4, IBM made available a Web application server that is integrated in the operating system.
DB2 Web Query uses this application server because it is more lightweight and requires a smaller
memory footprint than the WebSphere Application Server. It is also easier to administer, start,
and stop. In fact, the i5/OS commands provided by DB2 Web Query handle the starting and
stopping of both the reporting server and the integrated application server. The implementation
used by DB2 Web Query also uses IBM Technology for Java, the 32-bit Java Virtual Machine
(JVM), which further reduces the system resources needed and generally results in better overall
application performance.
Additional Components
The DB2 Web Query base product can essentially be thought of as a more modernized version of
Query/400. While it is much more robust and feature-rich than Query/400, its capabilities are primarily
for querying and reporting, just as the product it strategically replaces.
To take this product to the next level requires the implementation of several additional LPP options
available from IBM. The powerful features included with these options are what transform DB2 Web
Query from a modern reporting tool into a solution that provides true BI capabilities. For example, if
you want the ability to enhance the metadata layer and hide the complexity of the database, provide
visually rich dashboards to your management, give your business analysts the ability to slice and dice
data to solve complex business problems, give your mobile employees access to powerful reports in
a disconnected environment, and provide true ad hoc reporting capabilities to empower your end
users, you will want take a serious look at these additional options.
Most of these options are server-based, chargeable features that, like the base component, follow a
processor tier pricing model. The exception to this is 5733QU2 option 3 (Developer Workbench),
which is a PC client application with a flat-fee pricing model. You purchase a license for each PC that
the tool is installed on. Let's have a look at each of these options.
Active Reports (5733QU2 Option 1)
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10. Active Reports is special report output format (specified in the Report Assistant tool) in which the
data and the reporting controls are all stored within a single HTML file. These reporting controls
provide the user with a variety of built-in data analysis and manipulation features. Here are some
examples:
Sort: The report can be sorted by any column in ascending or descending order.
Filter/highlight: Any column or combination of columns that match specified values can be
filtered or highlighted.
Calculate: Math functions sum, minimum, maximum, count, and percentage of total can
be applied to selected columns.
Chart: Line, bar, and pie graphs can be displayed in a pop-up window.
Rollup: Values in a selected column can be aggregated by another selected column and
results displayed in a pop-up window.
Pivot: Column values can be aggregated and results displayed in a cross tab grouped by
two or more columns.
Visualize: Bar charts of selected columns can be displayed for a visual comparison of
column values.
Export: Reports and charts can be extracted and immediately exported into other
applications.
All these features are built-in and ready to use via a Web browser; no client application is
required. In addition, since all the information is encapsulated in a single HTML file, you can do all
this in a disconnected mode. The end user works with the data contained in the HTML file and
does not require a network connection to the DB2 for i5/OS server.
This also means that users do not have to be registered named users. Only the user who
originally ran and populated the report needs to be a licensed user (or member of a Run Time
User Enablement group). The report can be distributed (emailed) to anyone, and those recipients
simply open the HTML file in a Web browser and have the same information and same data
manipulation capabilities as the user who originally created the report.
OLAP (5733QU2 Option 2)
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a component of BI software that provides an interactive
experience of working with the data. The user typically runs an initial report to analyze data or
examine trends. The report may yield information that leads to more questions, or perhaps it may
uncover a problem area within the corporation. To help the user gain more insight on the
information, an OLAP application enables the user to extract and view the data at different points
of view. This could mean dragging and dropping new fields into the report, filtering the data, re-
sorting by a specific column, drilling down to the next level of detail, or pivoting specific columns
in the report.
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11. To perform this type of function, OLAP tools structure data in a hierarchical design. As such,
OLAP is often associated with data that is multi-dimensional (often extracted from cubes or a data
warehouse that was designed based on star schema or snowflake schema principles). However,
this is not a requirement for DB2 Web Query. Databases that are relational can also be analyzed
using the OLAP module in the Report Assistant tool. Once your OLAP dimensions and
hierarchies are defined using the Developer Workbench application, report developers can simply
switch on OLAP to enable these types of capabilities. This feature empowers your users, giving
them many ways to dissect and manipulate the data to gain a better understanding of information
that is buried within it.
Developer Workbench (5733QU2 option 3)
Developer Workbench is a Windows client-based application that provides additional and
advanced features for DB2 Web Query development activities. While synonym creation, as well
as report and graph development tasks, can be accomplished by using the other tools, the
numerous features provided in this application make it well worth looking into. Some of the
highlights include the following:
Synonym Editor: This advanced editor includes features to perform impact analysis, data
profiling (statistics, patterns, values, and outliers), date decomposition, creation of
synonym-level joins, creation of virtual (computed) columns, and the configuration of the
dimensions and hierarchies needed for OLAP processing. Developers also have the
option of viewing the synonym structure in a tree view, modeling view, or simple text
editor.
HTML Layout Painter: This component provides an interface from which developers can
create layouts by inserting text, images, existing reports and graphs, and input selection
parameters (using design elements such as radio buttons and drop-down lists). The tool
then generates an HTML file so that this layout can be used as the framework for a Web
page. Dashboards, composite reports, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and the front-
end page for parameterized reports are developed using this very powerful accessory.
SQL Report Wizard: If you prefer to create reports based on your own SQL statements or
if you have SQL SELECT statements stored in files in the IFS, the SQL Report Wizard
will be a useful tool in your environment.
Runtime User Enablement (5733QU2 Option 4; Available Only with V1R1M1)
In March of 2008, the Run Time User Enablement option was added to the product offering.
While it provides no additional features, this option gives customers more licensing flexibility
when the majority of the users are run-time only.
With the base licensing option of 5733QU2, all users (whether they are report developers or
report users) must be explicitly registered as named users using the product's license manager
component. Each of these named users consumes a user license. Consequently, a company with
many users would be forced to create an environment that is both expensive and difficult to
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12. administer. This option was made in response to feedback received from the initial product
release based on such environments. With Runtime User Enablement, a company in which the
majority of users are run-time only users (perform no report development activities) can license
those users under i5/OS group profiles. Each of these group profiles secures a unique set of
reports. This means that runtime licensing is based on the number of reports sets being made
available rather than number of uses that access the reports. This can result in significant savings
and reduced administration.
The future
In March of 2008 IBM and Information Builders announced a joint product roadmap for DB2 Web Query.
This roadmap provides a glimpse of what is to come in 2008 for this product. Some of the planned
product enhancements and offerings included in this announced were:
A report scheduling and distribution application that supports the generation and automated email
distribution of reports.
A Software Development Kit (SDK) that will provide the capability for application developers to
embed DB2 Web Query content into any application as well as drive report execution and
delivery through the previously described report distribution application.
An Excel plug-in to provide end-user ability to execute DB2 Web Query reports from within Excel
spreadsheets and pull the report results directly into the spreadsheet.
Summary
Query/400 was a very popular product and had a great run. Indeed, many thousands of licenses have
been sold since 1988, and customers continue to use it today. But as useful as it was, its time as a
primary query and reporting tool has passed. A changing of the guard has occurred, and with it comes a
wealth of new features to deliver the information that your users need, in the format that they want, and
with additional features that allow them to utilize true Business Intelligence capabilities. All this from a
product that is designed to leverage all the good things about i5/OS: security, backup and recovery, and
use of the integrated database…and all from a single i5/OS server. This means easier installation,
maintenance, problem determination, licensing, and queries that are optimized for DB2 for i5/OS.
If you would like more information about this exciting new product, I'd suggest starting with the DB2 Web
Query for System i home page.
Also take a look at the IBM Redbook Getting Started with DB2 Web Query for System i, which
accompanied the product launch. It contains much more information about the product, tutorials to help
you easily get started using the product, and performance tips and techniques to maximize your usage of
the latest database technologies.
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13. Resources
These Web sites provide useful references to supplement the information contained in this document:
IBM System i Information Center
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries
IBM DB2 for i5/OS home page
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/db2/
IBM DB2 Web Query for System i home page
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/db2/webquery/
IBM Publications Center
www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/public/applications/publications/cgibin/pbi.cgi?CTY=US
IBM Redbooks Web site
ibm.com/redbooks
Getting Started with DB2 Web Query for System i
www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247214.html?Open
About the author
Gene Cobb is a DB2 for i5/OS and DB2 Web Query specialist in the IBM System i ERP
Development Support organization. He has worked on IBM midrange systems since 1988,
with 10 years in the IBM System i Lab Services group – formerly the Client Technology
Center (CTC) in Rochester, Minnesota. When he was Lab Services, he assisted IBM
customers with application design and development using RPG, DB2 for i5/OS, IBM
CallPath/400 and IBM Lotus® Domino®. His current responsibilities include providing
consulting services to System i developers, with special emphasis in DB2 Web Query as well as
application and database modernization.
Acknowledgements
Thanks to the following people who reviewed and contributed to this paper:
Doug Mack
Tyler Even
Michael Cain
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