Enhanced Drill-through Capabilities

In earlier versions of IBM® Cognos 8, model-based drill-through supported only reports created in Analysis Studio, Query Studio, or Report Studio as targets. Other types of drill-through targets are now supported. For example, you can drill through to PowerPlay® Studio reports saved in the content store, or to a package that contains a PowerCube.

In earlier versions of IBM Cognos® 8, drill-through access required the existence of parameters in the target. IBM Cognos 8 now allows dynamic filtering of the data. In cases where more control is needed, you can continue to use the existing parameterized drill-through.

You now also can restrict the availability of package drill-through definitions to measures as well as other data when you set the scope.

If the source is based on a dimensional package, you can choose what property of the source metadata item to map to the target. For example, you can map the member caption of the source metadata item to a relational value in the target instead of using the business key. For more information, see Drill-through Access.