Creating ABX cubes manually

You create the ABX cubes manually on the machine that has the IBM® DB2® ALPHABLOX® server installed on it. These cubes will be used by the WebSphere® Business Monitor dashboards.

After you deploy the cube-views definitions, but before you use the dashboards, complete the following steps:
  1. Point your web browser to: http://<hostname>:9081/AlphaBlox/home/Admin, and log in to IBM DB2 ALPHABLOX admin console.
  2. Select the ADMINISTRATION tab.
  3. Click Cubes.
  4. To create a cube, click Create.
    1. From the Relational Data Source list, select the appropriate Historical database defined at installation.
    2. Check the Enabled check box beside the DB2 AlphaBlox Cube Name.
    3. Check the Enable DB2 Cube Views Settings check box. Wait a few seconds until the fields become visible.
  5. For each cube that is defined under the Cube Model, you must create a cube.
    1. From the Cube Model list, select the cube model.
    2. From the Cube list, select the cube. There is only one cube per cube model.
    3. In the DB2 AlphaBlox Cube Name field, type the cube name. The name should be exactly as it appears in the Cube list. Example: CISS.NOOP. Do not include WBI, which is the schema name.
    4. Select the Use Business Names option.
    5. Click Import Cube Definition, and wait while processing takes place.
  6. Click OK to save the cube.
  7. Repeat step 5 (cube creation) for each cube that exists.
Related concepts
Cube views definitions
Related tasks
Deploying Cube Views database schema on the Windows platform
Deploying Cube Views database schema on the AIX platform

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