Cognos and Me

There is already an article published on using single select tree prompt against relational models that makes use of prompt macros. This ar...

The below are against 10.2.1 DMR model using DQM mode. For most of the defects the report has a crosstab with prompts on the report page ...

Drill and Re select Dimension with Render Variable - Behaves differently if measure is based on data item vs measure based on prompt macro....

This is going to be quite a long list so am listing out only a few important ones and most of them relate to prompt macros and drills. Thes...

Firstly a big thank you to all those who have been following this blog. And sorry for not being able to answer all your queries posted. I...

How often have you been told that something that you think is a defect is actually by design? Doesn't that mean that the design is flaw...

With 10.1.1 developers no longer see the "Burst Report" checkbox when trying to burst report views through Event Studio. Create...

IBM has announced a fully documented and supported Prompt API with Cognos 10.2 allowing report authors to now safely use the supported Java...

Though it is documented on the IBM Support Site that Descendants against Set functions may result in incorrect outcome, wish there was a wa...

Another one for the defect list and this in my opinion impacts a feature that is most important and that was working in earlier releases. T...

There are times when you would want to use conditional variables to hide/display drill through links in a crosstab. If your condition is ba...

Even though Concurrent Querying is supported and can be defined in Report Studio, it isn't necessary that concurrent querying takes pla...

I seem to be on a ride running into numerous defects over the last couple of months. The latest one being similar duplicate queries generat...

A lot of beginners in Cognos try to set list column widths to fit data to avoid text wrapping rather than using the White Space property. T...

We have report with a value prompt on the report page and its default value is controlled by a prompt macro. The report also has a Pie cha...

To add on to what has been mentioned in the previous article, this new component from IBM allows users to pull in data from a number of sou...

IBM recently released a new component IBM Cognos Insight bundled with TM1 10. This is not related to Business Insight and is a separate Das...

When using Multi Tabs portlet as the first tab in Cognos Connection, users might run into CPS-PAG-4801 error. The error is not consistent a...

Here's an extract from IBM site on optimized master detail relationship using DQM ( http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cbi/v10r1m...

A lot has been said and written about Business Insight. While you will come across a lot of articles highlighting the good, jazzy and the p...