Got a chance to play with maps in Cognos reports for a recent PoC and learned quite a lot in the process. Most notably, I integrated OpenStreetMap in Cognos report, so I’ll demonstrate how to do it. Looks like this: Cognos and maps overview So you’re up to doing some maps in Cognos reports? I […]
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Feature updates went largely unnoticed with BI 10.2.1 FP1 release. It’s highly unusual to have major feature updates in fix packs, they’re usually held up to releases. But in this case we’ve got Rapid Analytical Visualisation Engine (RAVE) available in all reports, not only Active Reports (as per core 10.2.1). And that’s big news worth spreading! […]
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If you have missed it — there’s a new edition of Stephen Few’s Information Dashboard Design book. A must have and first edition is by far most worn-out Few’s book in my collection. Almost at a point where I’d be embarrassed to ask him to sign it,just had to buy a new one ) Not […]
Continue reading →A short product update notice: Cognos TM1 10.2 is out TM1Tutorials are the first with the list of new features, congrats! A whole bag of candy, notably: Performance enhancements: given that TM1 in the cloud will become real with this release, there must’ve been another major update to locking model. I would doubt it’s possible […]
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Got my first Coursera certificate a while ago, hooray! Got it by mistake (more on it later), but it doesn’t matter, I won’t tell anyone, whoops ) Introduction to Data Science was taught by Bill Howe from University of Washington and lasted for 8 weeks. As usual, I was very active in the first 5 weeks and dropped […]
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We’re about 70% done in the project that took 110% of my time lately and it’s all about using Cognos BI on top of TM1 (with a bit of DWH in Cognos DataManager, that’ll be a separate post). Good time to write down some notes on how to develop efficient reports with TM1 as a […]
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Saw people having issues with configuring SSO for CX a few times already, so it’s probably worth puting this quick tip up here. If you followed the mighty document called “IBM Cognos Proven Practices: Enabling Kerberos SSO in IBM Cognos Express on Windows Server 2008” and Single SignOn still doesn’t work, think about how much […]
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Time for another multi-page dashboard related JS. It’s fairly complex (I’m not a js programmer, so am biased), works for 10.1 (and should work onwards and backwards, I don’t rely on cognos prompt syntax). The story behind it is quite simple: we’ve started doing dashboard pages as a global prompt on top and multiple report […]
Continue reading →I’ve recently taken my first online course: Data Analysis from Coursera. Enrolled while playing with SPSS and, as usual, it started in the middle of working madness. There’s a nasty part of myself that believes that piling things higher would actually mean that more get accomplished and it’s really lame at learning from experience. So […]
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Overwhelmed with work but still alive and have some proof: a quick javascript recipe that allows you to add hyperlinks to select tabs in multi-page dashboard reports. Something like multi-page tab drill-through ) Googled around and haven’t found anything copy-ready, so here it goes. We want to have a link like in picture below […]
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