Skip to content

Tag Archives: cognos

Calculating trend lines in Cognos Report Studio and Oracle SQL

I’m more than just emotional right now since I’ve finally got that bugger of my neck. To those who’re interested in getting trend calculated in oracle — press page-down once. Trend line calculation in Cognos. It’s 2008 as my desktop calendar says and it’s “Targeted information to a broader range of users ” on top [...]

Posted 25 January 2008 † ykud § bi § cognos § oracle ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

Some link dumping

Essbase is finally supported in Oracle BI. Hooray. From here. Cognos 8.2 BI sp1 out, gotta give it a try.

Posted 09 January 2008 † ykud § BI&CPM § oracle ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Contributor Audit Reports

A common question of ep admins is: “How can I see all users currently logged into planning wrt applications they’re using?” Something like: “Steve is now editing Capex and Sales Planning, and Mary is the only one in HR application now”. The task relatively simple for 1 application (yet required view publish for version prior [...]

Posted 23 December 2007 † ykud § cognos § ep cookbook ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

Enterprise Planning Professional Certification

I’m a pro now ) Nice test, there were some really interesting questions and it requires some competency with cognos bi. k I think I can guess what 4 questions I’ve answered wrong. Technically, it’s 1 hour, 57 questions, pass score 75%. Much easier in Russia, since you gain + 40 minutes due to different [...]

Posted 21 December 2007 † ykud § cognos ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Incremental Publish in EP

Just found an excellent option “Table-only Publish Post-GTP” that detects changes that make incremental publish incompatible and republishes application. It should be set to “Yes” by default, imho. See how incremental publish can streamline your reporting in these posts: 1, 2.

Posted 15 December 2007 † ykud § cognos § contributor-only § ep cookbook § tips ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: ,

Security in Cognos 8.3.

Christmas present for us — Cognos EP 8.3 is out. A question for me now is: What will happen to Access Manager, what’s his future? I’ve heard rumors about discontinuation of development\support in near future, I know that some readers have better internal access, so could you please clarify the issue somehow? So we can [...]

Posted 15 December 2007 † ykud § cognos § ep ‡ Comments (9) ° Also tagged: ,

Cognos Enterprise Planning 8.3 is out

Go out and download. I assume it a stabilizing release, polishing 8.2 bugs (we’ve ate plenty of them in past couple of months).

Posted 13 December 2007 † ykud § cognos ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Cognos Community

Cognos finally buried it’s awful SupporTalk forum and launched CognosCommunity. Glossy new interface (by the way, I hate web-based rich-text), avatars, tag clouds and even blogs. If you’re a partner — come join, they discuss serious stuff there.

Posted 13 December 2007 † ykud § cognos ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged:

Adaytum is back home, IBM buys Cognos

There’s a story I’d like to tell, especially funny in context with recent merger. I’ve found all this stuff (see links) about a year ago and I imagined the undocumented parts, it’s not official. In deep 90s a great guy named George Kunzle lead the development of IBM internal budgeting system, called FREGI. It was [...]

Posted 15 November 2007 † ykud § BI&CPM § cognos § ibm ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: ,

IBM buys Cognos

Cognos press-release IBM press-release I don’t know what to add for now.

Posted 12 November 2007 † ykud § BI&CPM § cognos ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,