Overview of Data Spreading
IBM® Cognos® TM1® provides
a variety of pre-defined data spreading functions that you can use
to distribute numeric data to cells in a cube view. For example, you
can use data spreading to evenly distribute a value across a range
of cells or to increment all values in a range of cells by a desired
percentage.
Data spreading functionality is available in the Cube Viewer, In-Spreadsheet Browser, and in slice worksheets. When you right-click a cell in any of these places, the shortcut menu includes a Data Spread option, from which you can select a data spread method.
You cannot use data spreading functionality when you work in batch update mode. If you attempt to spread data in the Cube Viewer or In-Spreadsheet Browser while in batch update mode, an error displays. If you attempt to spread data in a slice while in batch update mode, the spreading operation is not executed.
Batch updates are described in Using Batch Updates.