OLAP DML as a Definition Language

You use OLAP DML, itself, to create definitions of analytic workspaces and analytic workspace objects. You can use the AW command to create an analytic workspace and use the DEFINE command to define analytic workspace objects.

The definitions created using the OLAP DML are only those definitions needed to manipulate analytic workspace objects using the OLAP DML. In order to use SQL against analytic objects created using only the OLAP DML, you must create a relational view of the object using the OLAP_TABLE SQL function documented in Appendix A, "OLAP_TABLE SQL Functions".

See also:

"Defining a New Analytic Workspace", "Viewing Information About an Analytic Workspace", "About OLAP DML Data Objects", and Chapter 3, "Formulas, Models, Aggregations, and Allocations".