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Cognos and MS SQL — happy together

Posted on March 19, 2009 by ykud / 0 Comment

 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 re...

bi/cognos/tips

Default Framework Manager package publish folder

Posted on March 9, 2009 by ykud / 8 Comments

Just a quick tip — this setting is stored in “lastPublishCM” property of fm.ini file Gave me some trouble recently, when language changes led ...

analyst/blogging/cognos/ep cookbook/tips

Enterprise PLanning Objects Naming Convention.

Posted on May 16, 2008 by ykud / 4 Comments

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...

cognos/contributor-only/ep cookbook/tips

Incremental Publish in EP

Posted on December 15, 2007 by ykud / 2 Comments

Just found an excellent option “Table-only Publish Post-GTP” that detects changes that make incremental publish incompatible and republishes applica...

cognos/ep cookbook/tips

EP TimeScale Dimension

Posted on October 15, 2007 by ykud / 0 Comment

Just a rule to follow. Create time dimension so that detail item iids are consistent\meaningful and then add all summary items. So then in common Months dlist y...

cognos/contributor-only/ep cookbook/tips

Cognos Enterprise Planning Design principles

Posted on September 28, 2007 by ykud / 5 Comments

Usually these are the signs of coming disaster in an EP system: 1) too many dlists of the same “dimension”, some elements thrown out for cutting vol...

cognos/contributor-only/ep cookbook/tips

Cognos “Real-time” Reporting on Contributor Data

Posted on August 21, 2007 by ykud / 6 Comments

8.2 makes many things nice&simple. To get a full budget report we need to do the following:    1) Publish the whole application  &n...

cognos/ep cookbook/tips

@Transform

Posted on March 1, 2007 by ykud / 0 Comment

I’m just pointing it out again — @Transform is a wonderful BiF, allowing to calculate trigonometric functions, exponentials and logs. If only weR...

cognos/ep cookbook/tips

Analyst Break-Back Rules

Posted on December 29, 2006 by ykud / 1 Comment

After examining Palo source code to see how their “Splashing” works, I got interested in the rules of break-back in Cognos EP. Not satisfied with va...

coding/cognos/tips

Batch for log gathering + timestamping

Posted on December 5, 2006 by ykud / 0 Comment

When gathering logs, or performing backups, it’s useful to append date suffix to the result file. But that’s all not so trivial calculating such suf...

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