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 you can [...]
Why am I writing this?
Well, sometime it helped and we now have allocation tables in administration links. Although I’m sure my post didn’t have any impact, some deem hope remains
I’m going to repost this into Communities and into Insight. And, maybe, we can create some noise by voting for these enchancements in Insight aka registering [...]
With so-long waited new Contributor client, with expand\collapse and nest dimensions features. And a lot, lot more. ActiveX free ) Actually, as long as I’m with cognos ep (since adaytum 2.4), contributor was always the same good-old-rigid tool, so it’s a revolution indeed.
Well, with a huge lot of bugs inside, it’s time, gentlemen, to power [...]
I already wrote some notes on choosing dimension for publish in this post.
Today I just want to add some of points:
1 If you’re up to publishing some serious amount of data, variant with adding a dummy dlist with 1 item and using it as dimension for publish seems a very bad idea. You’re terribly slowing [...]
As I’ve promised, here are naming conventions I tend to follow in EP projects.
Setting up naming rules doesn’t seem so crucial at project start, but generally hits on you on the head on final phase, when development turns to support. And trying to support your colleagues model will leave you thinking about naming objects the [...]
I just thought that it’d be nice to have a built-in url shortener (like tinyurl or is.gd) for Cognos Reports.
It’s not always possible to apply html tags while sending a report link to a colleague, so such a simple thing would help me a lot.
Such an url shortener can be added as an external j2ee [...]
There are some situations when you definitely need some way of recognizing new input from user. These are rather rare occasions, but when it’s nice to have such a tool is sack.
One of the applications was discussed in this communities topic. By the way, I’m spending much time on communities these days (it’s a [...]
DMR stands for Dimensionally Modelled Relational, a Cognos modelling technique allowing to present relational data sources as OLAP cubes (this meaning adding notion of dimensions with hierarchies and measures with various aggregation rules). All OLAP-style queries, roll-ups\drill-downs are then transformed into appropriate sql (group by’s, aggregations) by Cognos Server. It’s not a Cognos-only idea, see [...]
One more DIY article. This time we’ll talk about…
You have more than a dozen Power Cubes (20?50?100?)?
And since you can use only 2 CPUs per cube on Windows platform and “update-windows” are only narrowing, you have a couple servers (3?5?)?
And so you get the task of carefully splitting cube creation tasks on those servers, adjusting [...]
Scrapped it out from my answer on cognos communities, maybe it’ll help someone.
Drill-through is really to tough to debug.
Prior to 8.3 I’ve used following routine:
1) Set the target report filter to optional
2) Add 2 new text item to target report, and change them to ReportExpressions of ParamDisplayValue (?param?) and ParamValue(?param?)
This will show you what is [...]
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