Report per email waiting forever
Hello,there has been an almost similar thread but not completly.We schedule plenty of reports, some quite big, to be sent by email. Most run without problems but sometimes a report that ran...
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Look at this older Cognoise topic ... I know Cast can have many varchars. See if this helps you.http://www.cognoise.com/index.php?topic=26521.0
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All - Cafe Question -- We have a hierarchy similar to CITIES below. For buisiness purposes, the hierarchy is set up as shown, with the EAST , MID, WEST regions set up as Alternate hierarchies. Using...
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I want to summarize employees' pay increase percents using multiplication. Some employee only have one increase while others could have several. Is there a summarize function in Cognos that would...
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I have a report requirement to show only report pages that users select on the prompt page. What is the best practice in Cognos for allowing users select a prompt that outputs the desired pages? For...
View ArticleRe: Password/Encrypt Excel Files
I checked with IBM and here is their reply..Thank you for contacting IBM Cognos Support. I have been researching your question and I found that quite some time ago a request for enhancement was...
View ArticleRe: URGENT - Multiselect prompt set required not working properly!!
I had the same issue multi select prompt was not working .But Lynn's advise really worked for me .thanks Lynn .
View ArticleRe: Cognos 10 + Office 365
I got this working using the following two articles:Setup an IIS relay to Office...
View ArticleRe: How to display only pages that users select on the prompt page?
Thank you both, I will try your suggestions and report back.
View ArticleDeriving QTD in dimensional reporting
Hi I have a requirement to show the QTD percent to quota . I dont have Quarters in my time dimension and need to derive it using current month . I have a macro for dynamiccally finding the mun so I can...
View ArticleDrill down requirement
Hi Gurus , I would like to know if i can achieve this requirement using cognos.Show a bar chart with sales for all 12 months . The sales shown here is for overall product teams . Then on drill down on...
View ArticleVersion 11.10 Report Paramdisplayvalue MUN instead caption bug & work around
Hi All. There is a Version 8 bug that has surfaced again. If you have a report expression paramdisplayvalue(prompt) then after reprompting the report page, it will show the MUN instead of the caption....
View ArticleSaving scheduled report outputs in a directory with customized names
Hi Gurus,In Cognos 11, I would like to schedule a report to run at regular intervals and save the output to a folder in the network.Once an output is generated, the previous output should not be...
View ArticleRe: how to subtarct current timestamp by 2 hour .
Hi - what exactly do you mean by Quote_add_hour --> its not working - that ought to work and would probably give you the best result. I'm assuming you're using relational data by the way. What...
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Re: How to display only pages that users select on the prompt page?
QuoteBut yea, if that works for you, BigChris' solution is less work!I'm a big fan of less work
View ArticleRe: How to display only pages that users select on the prompt page?
And rightfully so! There's the quote that's always being attributed to Bill Gates, "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." - No idea if that was...
View ArticleRe: Deriving QTD in dimensional reporting
Hi ,how do i get the set of months based on if expression. how can i group 3 different months and then use that set for my calculation .if(#timestampMask($current_timestamp,'mm')#=01 )then I know its...
View ArticleUnable to create SAP BW Data Source for IBM Cognos 11.x
I am trying to set up a SAP BW DataSource in my IBM Cognos Analytics Enviroment. First of all what I did was:- installed IBM Cognos Analytics via EASY INSTALL- configured the Cognos Analytics...
View ArticleHow to convert report data source from data module to framework package
I wanted to share my method for converting a report based on a data module to a framework package. There may be other methods, but this is the way I was able to get the job done and thought it might...
View ArticleRe: how to subtarct current timestamp by 2 hour .
Yeah my question sounds little weird question But I am trying to do a simple thing .I am automating a process where in every 2 hour we will be getting the report having the details of failed reports...
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