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:
- Point your web browser to: http://<hostname>:9081/AlphaBlox/home/Admin,
and log in to IBM DB2 ALPHABLOX admin
console.
- Select the ADMINISTRATION tab.
- Click Cubes.
- To create a cube, click Create.
- From the Relational Data Source list,
select the appropriate Historical database defined at installation.
- Check the Enabled check box beside the DB2
AlphaBlox Cube Name.
- Check the Enable DB2 Cube Views Settings check
box. Wait a few seconds until the fields become visible.
- For each cube that is defined under the Cube Model,
you must create a cube.
- From the Cube Model list, select the
cube model.
- From the Cube list, select the cube.
There is only one cube per cube model.
- 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.
- Select the Use Business Names option.
- Click Import Cube Definition, and wait
while processing takes place.
- Click OK to save the cube.
- Repeat step 5 (cube creation) for each cube that exists.