Tip of the day: Having common metadata layer for BI and Enterprise Planning is really cool, especially with the ability to load data from BI packages to EP via links. Just that it sometimes doesn’t work. But there are always some workarounds. With mostly very cryptical error messages or without any. One of the problems [...]
Just a quick hint and a reminder: there is a configuration option forcing Cognos to store temporary report results in memory rather than dropping them on disk. It’s especially usefull for DMR’s they are frequently cached on disk. Quote from Architecture and Deployment Guide. Depending on the size of reports and the amount of available [...]
This post will be some extracts from a recent PoC, where we made a complex planning system including a rich scenario modeling part. So it was our first big TM1 + EP integration experience. Some basic definitions: Cognos Enterprise Planning (aka Adaytum EP) is a very scalable system, all computing is client-side, nice workflow organization, [...]
Finally got my hands to installing and trying it. Well, it looks nice, allows flash-based chart formating and turns Cognos portal pages into more dynamic “dashboards”. But it’s strangely slow (tried on a couple of computers) and all in all looks kinda “alpha” and plugged in at last moment. Installation is not that easy too, [...]
Correcting myself. I was ranting about MS SQL and Cognos interaction. I was totally wrong. The problem, described shortly is: you have 2 databases in MS SQL residing on the same physical server you create a join “table A from db1 with table B from db2” Cognos creates two select queries (select * from db1.A) [...]
Just a quick tip — this setting is stored in “lastPublishCM” property of fm.ini file Gave me some trouble recently, when language changes led to unappropriate publish folder name. Moreover, we were not able to publish anything at all ) Changing this file helped. Found via FileMonitor from sysinternals, as usual.
Okay, it has been almost half-a-year (oh, dears) since the last decent post on this blog. Russian one has suffered as well, I must note. Reasons vary, but mostly it’s that I’ve been, you know, busy-busy. As I now start to reflect on it, it’s always a point of view thing and a question of [...]
Just a quick tip: read this cognoise thread thoroughly — really in-depth discussion.
Go check the download page. One wonders, what’s that 64-bit BI server is all about — they’ve really pushed the report server further, or that’s just compatability release.
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Posted 27 November 2008
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We’ve encountered an annoying Cognos 8 bug recently. Usual scenario if you’re creating reports over Enterprise Planning data includes “unioning” data from several applications. For example, you have an Operating Expenditures planning application and a Sales Planning application. To make a simple P&L, you just have to show up data from both these applications. So [...]