We need a BI solution for our company so can we have a comparison between BI tools in the market, like:Microsoft Performance Point, SAP Business Objects, Oracle Corp. BI and IBM Cognos.
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can anyone give an example of a cognos crosstab report please? although i have listed this as powerplay I am actually using cognos8
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im new to cognos 8 bi , and try to build cubes for analysis studio and report studio in excel. im seeking for guidelines and methods to build cubes.
Any Cognos experts?? If so, I am working with a client. We have extracted certain time intervals in seonds and are using these intervals in our cubes. The problem is that when the client is a...
I just completed installing Cognos 8 Web/Application server (roles: dispatcher, content manager).
Opened Cognos Configuration and Selected Action menu and clicked Test.
Got the below err...
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Are there any cognos experts that can tell me how to create a datetime variable in Cognos 8
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I have a date prompt on my prompt page that accepts a start date and end date for a period to search. Normally I've used syntax like this:
between ?start_date? and ?end_date?
But this d...
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I have a cognos report that passes the prompts to a stored procedure that i have 'imported' into relasional model. The problem is one of the prompts using a data item from the Dimentiona...
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I have created a prompt report. Can anyone tell me if this can now be scheduled to run at specific times or if not can it be run manually and emailed to a receipient?
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After installing Cognos Power Play 7.3 on a machine with Windows XP Professional English Service Pack 2 and MS Excel 2003 English SP 3 (MS Office Small Business Edition) and installing Power P...
Is there a way to add comments to an expression in Cognos Report Studio? For example, in Excel VBA, if I use a single quote, it ignores the text to the right of the quote. This is useful for...
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I'm new to Cognos. I installed Cognos 8 in my system. I was trying to configure Cognos Framework Manager with the guidelines available. I have been trying to do this for quite...
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We are using Cognos Powerplay version 6.61 along with Cognos Powerplay transformer to build powercubes which are built using data from an access database. The problem is the dates for 20...
System Center Operation Agent working on Exchange Server 2007
it is gray. I receive some event from event log.
i try to correct the error with changing the query item expression to 'string' type , looking for steps to change the data type, (eg. create a query item in sub-dimension, and key in Expressio...
I'm doing another variation on a report I've been working on and I've run into a seemly simple problem that I can't resolve fast enough.
So. As you can see in the screenshot, I have 2 date...
Hi, Can anyone give me some documentation on how to create reports using cognos 8?
I am pulling my hair out tying to create a list report containing data from two seperate queries!
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I would like to access a sql server which is not in our domain via Cognos 8 Framework manager .
1) which ports do I need to open for the firewall?
2) how does framework manager ...
how to create dimension model in cognos and start schema in cognos so that it can be used for analysis studio
I created a time dimension using the Date Wizard in Transformer. However I need to create a custom time level that displays the dates for the previous 12 months relative to todays date. How do...
I have a report I'm trying to make in Cognos 8.2 that I'm having trouble with.
I need to count how many patients visit our clinics during a period of time. I don't need to know home many v...
wht are the advantages of having layers in cognos FM model
This is a question about STARTING the messenger service through group policy..this is what i did so far.
I open a group policy, expand computer configuration, then windows
settings, then c...
Frequently, when someone tries to get into COGNOS through the web browser, they get the following error
"CAM-AAA-0027 The function call to 'CAM_AAA_Authenticate' failed. Reason: ''
I r...
hey when i try to combine 2 dims with fact, both have outer join......i ended up having full outer join ...tht i don't need...wht is the solution for this. i was think to join 3 dims data in f...
