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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Transformer => Topic started by: cognos05 on 07 Jul 2017 10:32:49 AM

Title: Delete the unused category
Post by: cognos05 on 07 Jul 2017 10:32:49 AM
Is there a way to delete the unused category in cognos transformer .

Thanks,
Title: Re: Delete the unused category
Post by: bdbits on 07 Jul 2017 02:03:20 PM
Highlight the item in the Categories diagram and hit the delete key.
Title: Re: Delete the unused category
Post by: misscognos on 26 Jul 2017 12:29:13 PM
If you mean saved categories clean house from the tools menu. You can specify the date that they have not been used since. If you mean suppression of some sort there are options for the level as well as individual categories in the category diagram.
Title: Re: Delete the unused category
Post by: bdbits on 27 Jul 2017 12:37:11 PM
Clean house has risks, mainly related to the now missing category still being present in report filters, category views (often used for security), etc. Also, it will wipe any calculated or 'special' categories, e.g. a Cognos-generated time dimension.

If you want to use it, I would back up your existing cube model and be sure to test it out thoroughly first, including at the least the more important reports.