You add questions to a UNICOM Intelligence Question Repository by storing survey assets, that contain one or more standard survey questions, to the IBM SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services Repository. The file type used by UNICOM Intelligence to store questions is the .mdd file. When you use the Store Survey Asset into Repository Wizard to store survey assets to the repository, the .mdd file is packaged into an .mzd file together with any associated files that you provide. For more information, see Survey assets.

You can store new survey assets to the repository, or you can update existing survey assets. The UNICOM Intelligence Question Repository does not recognize the difference between new and existing assets; the repository is always searched to determine if a survey asset with the same name exists. When an asset with the same name is found, you are prompted to confirm that the survey asset is intended as a new version of an existing asset.