Configuring Blox Sampler for Hyperion Essbase
For use with Hyperion Essbase, this Blox Sampler example
set requires the following:
- The QCC-Essbase sample data
- IBM Alphablox running
- Supported Web browser
- Comment database repository (required for running the examples in the Commenting
on Data section)
To use the files in Blox Sampler, you need to make sure that the following
steps have been performed:
- Define an IBM Alphablox data source for QCC.
- Create a comment database repository.
- Define an IBM Alphablox data source to access the comment repository.
1. Install the QCC data on a Hyperion Essbase server
Follow the steps described in the QCC-README.html
file on IBM
Alphablox installation CD's sampledata
directory. The same instructions
are also provided in the Getting Started guide in the IBM
Alphablox Information Center.
2. Define the QCC-Essbase data source on IBM Alphablox
Once the sample data is installed, it needs to be defined to IBM Alphablox
through the
Admin Pages. Instructions for defining data sources are available through
the QCC-README.html
file on IBM Alphablox installation CD's sampledata
directory as well as online on the Admin Pages. The following are the configuration
values to use:
- Data Source Name: QCC-Essbase
- Adapter: Hyperion Essbase
- Server Name: <enter your Hyperion Essbase data
server name>
- Application: Blox
- Database: qcc
- Default User Name:
<userName>
- Default Password:
<password>
- Use IBM Alphablox Username and Password: No
- Maximum Rows: 1000
- Maximum Columns: 1000
Note: After the QCC-Essbase
data source is configured, you can use all of the Blox Sampler examples, except
for those in the Commenting Data section. To use those
examples, continue with steps below.
3. Create a Comments database repository
In order to use examples in the Commenting Data section, you first need to
configure a CommentsBlox database repository to store and use comments. This
only requires that you create a database using any of the IBM Alphablox-supported
relational databases. IBM Alphablox will automatically create any required
tables it needs. After creating this database, you need to define a IBM Alphablox
data
source.
4. Create a IBM Alphablox data source for the comments repository
For IBM Alphablox to use the comments database you created, you
need to define a IBM Alphablox data source using
the Admin
Pages. Instructions for defining data sources are in the online help available
in the Admin pages as well as in the Administrator's
Guide. After you select the appropriate adapter for your database,
fill in the required fields and make sure to define a default username and
password. For the data source name, use CommentsCollection.
5. Creating a Comments Collection
After you have created a database for your comments repository, follow these
steps to create a comments collection (within your comments repository) for
storing comments:
- Go to the IBM Alphablox Admin Pages, click on the Administration
tab, then click on the General tab.
- Under Runtime Management, click the Comments
link to open the Comments Management window.
- Select the CommentsCollection as your data source, enter your username
and password, then press the Connect button. The Collection area (below Datasource)
should become available.
- To create a new collection, press the Create button. In the right side
of the window, three new sections (Name, Fields, and Dimensions) should appear.
- In the Name section, enter the name of your comments collection -- for
Blox Sampler, use CommentsCollection as the collection name too.
- In the Fields section, three required default fields are included: the
Author, Timestamp, and CommentText fields. You can add additional fields,
defining their names, and optionally, descriptions for each field you define.
For this collection, you can use the default fields.
- In the Dimensions section, select the QCC-Essbase from the list of defined
data sources. A list of available dimensions should appear.
- For the Blox Sampler examples, select all of the available dimensions
by Shift-clicking or Control-clicking on the dimensions in the list. [Note: For comments collections created using DB2, choose up to 10 dimensions only.]
- Press the Save button. At this point, the name of the newly defined collection
should appear in the Collection listing.
The Blox Sampler comments-related examples should
work properly now.