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Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS - IBM Redbooks

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tabular reporting<br />

Reporting based on one-dimensional tables, meaning the analysis is restricted to<br />

one dimension and its attributes. Unlike OLAP reporting, with flat reporting you<br />

can arrange the columns any way you like when you are designing a query in the<br />

tabular editor mode of the BEx query designer.<br />

For example, you can put a column <strong>for</strong> a characteristic between two columns <strong>for</strong><br />

key figures.During the design of the query, you decide how you want the<br />

columns to be displayed. Once you have chosen a display type you are not able<br />

to change it. In flat reporting, the interactive options are restricted to filter, filter<br />

and drilldown according to, sort according to, and navigate on hierarchies.<br />

Navigation functions that alter the geometry of the flat list, meaning that they<br />

change the number and order of the columns, <strong>for</strong> example, swapping or adding a<br />

drilldown, are available with OLAP reporting but not with flat reporting.<br />

target Business In<strong>for</strong>mation Warehouse<br />

BW System to which another BW System is connected as a source system, and<br />

into which you can load data <strong>using</strong> export DataSources.<br />

temporal join<br />

Join containing at least one time-dependent characteristic.<br />

The time-dependency is evaluated when the results set is determined. A time<br />

interval is assigned to each record in the results set. The record is valid <strong>for</strong> the<br />

interval to which it is assigned (valid time-interval). the results set, time<br />

dependencies are evaluated. Each record in the results set is assigned to a time<br />

interval, <strong>for</strong> which<br />

test<br />

Check of internal in<strong>for</strong>mation about BW objects <strong>for</strong> consistency.<br />

Gives a repair option, if necessary. A test consists of several elementary tests.<br />

You can select the required elementary tests individually so that you do not have<br />

to conduct unnecessary testing.<br />

test package<br />

Sequence of elementary tests as result of selecting specific tests or elementary<br />

tests.<br />

You can save a test package and schedule it to run later.<br />

text element<br />

Web item that displays query in<strong>for</strong>mation about which the query view, and<br />

consequently the Web application, are based. You can select individual text<br />

Appendix A. Glossary <strong>for</strong> <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> 307

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