Remap to New Source in FM

Very recently found this option really handy in FM. This option is real useful when you have a model already built and at a later date there are changes to the tables being used with the possibility of an existing table getting dropped and the information being made available in another table or in a new table.

Dropping a data source query subject would invalidate your business layer and in earlier versions of Cognos this would result in re-designing and re-developing certain sections of the model. This has now been made easy with the "Remap to new source" option available on model query subjects. With this option you can remap individual columns in a model query subject to other columns in your physical layer.

You can also remap multiple columns at one go by setting options to match columns from the source to target and then drag all columns from the data source query subject to the model query subject and Cognos will automatically remap the various columns based on the options set. This is useful when your query subjects contain a huge number of columns.



 

Cognos 10 - Scheduling Features

Came across an IBM Supportlink article mentioning a new scheduling feature available with Cognos 10 that I think is really helpful.

There are many times when you wish to schedule your report to run once every x hours but on certain days in the week and only between certain time range on those days. This was so far not possible up until Cognos 10. Cognos objects could only be scheduled to run once every x hours or only once on certain days of the week, a combination of hours on week days was not possible.

With Cognos 10, users can now schedule their reports to run once every x hours on certain days of the week between certain time range on those days. You can read up more on this on IBM support link article.