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What is the security module used in cognos? The security module used in cognos is cognos access manager. What is report burn and where it occurs?
Report can be divided into different parts and sending these different parts of report to different users.It occurs in cognos connection.
For example I developed some reports on employee package now I have to develop same reports to another package. How can I change reports to another package?
Open that report and save as that report Select public folder and then select package in which package u want to save then save it
Macro is set of instructions to run report. Prompt is just like a dialog box which will ask user to select/enter the information what he needs. A MACRO IS RUN TIME PARAMETER WHICH CAN BE PLACED IN ANY PART OF SQL SELECT STATEMENT,WHERE AS PROMPT IS USED TO GIVE CONDITIONS
Cognos Visualizer is a tool for creating charts(bar, pie, histogram......) & maps using datasources(datafiles like mdc,iqd,csv,excel etc).
What are the Ways to Import Data into Catalog? Create a catalog with .cat file... Report studio has two SQL tabs one native SQL and another one cognos SQL which one is get more preference? which one we need to consider? Cognos sql When we save a report in reportstudio with what extn it save? It saves as .XML It will save as .CRR
When we save the report it save our specifications like u can choose(in report studio RUN MENU by cliking down icon) HTML,XML,CSV,OR PDF Format if u save the report HTML u can also run report different format as u like or different language also Depends on the format on which the report is being run. By default its .html format. The report can be made to run in any formats like HTML, PDF, XLS, CSV ( Comma separated format) and XML and based on that, report can be saved in either .html, .pdf, .xls, .csv or .xml When u r viewing the report in the package is shown with extension .crr
How can I convert a list report/Cross tab Report in Cognos EP series into a bar chart or pie chart etc.? This can be done in Impromtu administrator How many numbers of cubes can we create on a single model? How can we navigate between those cubes?
Using a single Model, we can create as many number of cubes u want. By using the dimension views...etc. Regarding the navigation, when we save cubes, these act as separator multidimensional databases. There wont be any relations. Navigate means opening the cubes separately.
In cognos 'group' is used to suppress the duplicate values. And 'associate' is used to suppress the values if it is one-one relationship. Group - It Eliminates the Duplicate values from the report break the columns. Its having a one to many relationship. Association-It Eliminates the Duplicate values from the report and its having oneone relationship. Both Group & Association eliminte duplicates in a column. But we cannot use Association alone. It should have one to one relationship with grouped column.
What is Cardinality?
Cardinality is nothing but relation between tables like 1 to 1, 1 to many and many to many. Cardinality is the nature of the relationship. 1-1,1-many relation ships Cardinality is the nature of the relation between two query items
BY USING SYSTEM TESTING, UNIT TESTING, PERFORMANCE TESTING How u create security to reports?
Basically there are two types of securities for any object Levels of securities: 1. Database level security
How to find out YEAR CALCULATION? THAT MEANS YOU SHOW THIS YEAR REVENUE AND LAST YEAR REVENUE. WHEN YOU FILTER THIS YEAR VALUE THE RESULT SHOULD DISPLAY THIS YEAR RESULT AND LAST YEAR RESULT?
By using expressions, I mean by using conditional constructs and thru graphs we can view the revenue and calculated data as well.
How to configure the Cognos configurations to work in the Windows 2000 Server machine?
Go to Cognos Configuration and see the settings for cognos
in the explorer page. There u can set for win2000 server What is drill down and slicing and dicing what are the difference between them?
Drill down means it will explains the summary level information to lowest level information. Slicing is nothing but cutting edge of the cube. Dicing is nothing but viewing the cube in all possible directions. Drill down is the way to get the more detailed data. Slicing and dicing is to get the data according to where clause.
3) apply table styles Explain the different stages in creating a report in cognos report net?
Open cognos connection in that select Report studio or query studio it will displays there u have packeges(ex: gosales and goretailr (defult)) clik on that it disply Report studio in that select Object pane select required query subject then click run it displays ur report on report viewer screen
How we check the errors before running the report,plz let me know the answer?
Before u run a report. U have an option called 'valididate report' in run menu..
Then u can find the errors what u made. Actually we are migrating one project to ACTUATE business intelligence solution to COGNOS REPORTNEt? why the client want to migrate from ACTUATE to COGNOS REPORTNEt? what are the special features in COGNOS REPORTNEt?
CRN is web based tool. So it will very useful to view the reports very easily. So that they preferred CRN
How to pass multiple values from pick list prompt to sub report filter?
#parameter1#. Give this in ur filter where u pass multiple values
What is Snapshot ?
A SnapShot is a Permenant Local Copy Of the Report. Snapshot is Static DataSource it is saved with .imr File it is suitable for Disconnected Network....
example, Order No. is a grouped data item. For each order number, there is an Order Date. Order No. and Order Date have a one-to-one relationship.
Depends what we are going to use a DWH or Database. What r the names of the reports that u prepared? List report, Cross tab report, pie charts etcs.... master detail,drill through,cascading
List,Cross tab, Chart, Map report are the basic report of Cognos.
Without Dimension and Fact cannot make a relation between tables it could not be use for joins and retrieve the data as a form of reports in cognos. Dimension is a major subject area through which we can analysis our business.
How u burst the reports? if u r bursted reports is not reached to destination how u identify??? When You Import data into catalog You have complex columns names. How do you change the Name of those columns?
First you have to click on column header which you have to change. Then in property pane you will found name option. Then change column name.
How to pass parameter value into html design page? (That is YOU Create a html page and use that page in your cognos 8 report header.take <html item> my question is how to use parameter value in the html page .)
By writting the javascript code in the html item,we can insert the parameter values. Here is the URL to use to call report from java The following URL will work. Please note that prompt names are case sensitive and we need to prefix 'p_' to the defined prompt names. Although this passes the prompt values, it doesnt suppress the prompt page. So, in order to achieve that we include an additional expression (&run.prompt=false) http://<server_name>/cognos8/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi?b_action=xts.run&m=portal/reportviewer.xts&ui.action=run&ui.object=%2fcontent%2fpackage%5b%40name%3d %27<Folder_name>(optional)%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%3d%27<report_name> %27%5d&run.prompt=false&p_p_year=2007&p_p_month=09
Here p_year and p_month are the parameter name for prompt WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LIST REPORT AND CROSSTAB REPORT?
List report show data in rows and columns versus a crosstab report show data in grids with dimension in rows and columns and measures in cells or in the intersection points. List Report and Crosstab report both contains rows and columns but difference is list report is a detail report for analysis whereas crosstab report is the intersection of data or summarized data for analysis.
What is exact catalog size? There is no limit for catalog size. It may be 3MB Or 4MB. Give me some examples for Lifecycle reporting, I mean which lifecycle we will use for reporting?
There is no specific reporting lifecycle. We can generate the reports from datawarehouse/data marts or we can generate the reports directly from OLTP systems.
What I mean generating reports from OLTP systems is loading data into one system and generating the reports.But this is not recommended. This will depends on the business. 1) Generating reports from the olap interface system retrieving the data from the dataware house to generating forms and reports.
2) They can use Business intelligence project life cycle. HOW MANY LEVELS CAN BE USED IN DRILL THROUGH REPORTS? Two levels summary and detail. Where u can save the Report net documentation in our local system?
Whenever we Install Cognos Server we get it documentation alone otherwise we can store it in Deployment Folder of Cognos
What is model and how to create model and how to test model?
Create a Model In framework Manager and then publish it, make sure that Model meets the requirements, don't overload the model with unwanted query items Model is nothing but a project. And the project will be created by framework manager in which we can extract the metadata from the various operational sources... we will test the model by using the TOAD Model contains meta data which is related to business reporting Information. We import this data from the data base. Using this metadata we are creating Packages, Publishing packages, This metadata contains query subjects and namespaces.........
1) These iqd sources are coming from impromptu How to create a dynamic column name in Cognos?
These are the steps i. Create a calculated column which contains the information that the header is to contain, such as "Report for year 1999" (concatenated text and date to string sub string extraction). ii. Highlight the report, and then right-click. iii. Select Properties, and then click the Headers/Footers tab. iv. Clear the Column Title Header check box. This will remove the headers from your columns. v. Reinsert the rest of the column headers; insert text will work. vi. For the dynamic column, from the Insert menu, click Data and select the calculated column you created and insert it into the report. In cognos 8.0, First create a Calculated Data Item, select the list, associate it with the Query in Which Calculated Data Item is created, then click on Structure
and then List Header and Footers. Check List Header and make the Box Type of the Column header as None. Unlock and then drag the Calculated Data Item into the required header which will look like a Column Header in the report. For making a column name dynamic the only thing that you have to do is insert a layout calculations from the toolbox tab in report studio. I came across this answer because I wanted each column in across tabulation to have a text description different from the variable (column's) name. Cognos's gloriously useless documentation says nothing onhow to do this and adding text isn't an allowed action in page design mode (the error message you get goes beyondunhelpful). To have the column titles, row footers, etc., you want: 1) Switch to page structure view in report studio 2) Expand the crosstab by clicking the plus signs untilcrosstab row levels, crosstab level(variable_name), etc. arevisible 3) From the insertable objects, drag a 'Block' at the levelyou'd like to add the text. This takes some experimenting 4) after the block's been added, add into the block a TextItem from the insertable objects 5) a window will open and you can type in whatever text youwant. It's no wonder Jim Goodnight has such harshness towards Cognos.
What r the migration tools available in the market with respect to cognos such as impromptu reports are migrated to cognos reportnet?
reportnet1.1 migration tool is available to migrate the impromptu report to reportnet
Can reportnet supports cubes? No What are versions of cognos from starting release to latest in the market?
Cognos EP7 series,Cognos reportnet1.1 Mr1,MR2,MR3,MR4,cognos8.0,8.1, 8.2,8.3
What is IQD?What is contained in IQD? How you create IQD In ReportNet FrameWork?
IQD is impromptu Query Definition. It's a transformer report. To use an IQd in reportnet framework manager, there is a process called externalization using which you can import the IQD. IQD Is impromptu query definition, the name it self indicating dat, it contains the SQL statement. To create the iqd in Frame work manager, create a new query subject with required query items .Set the Externalise method property of that Query subject to 'iqd'. While the publishing the package select the 'Generate the files for Externalized query subjects'. And publish it to the local machine, which can be used as data source for Transfromer model.
Through Access Manager How to select multiple values from Type-in prompt? Example - I want to enter into type-in prompt in 'Product name--- Liza' display report data in 'product name is Leza' only OR I want to enter into type-in prompt in 'All', that time display report data in all are report data. How is possible this Scenario using in type-in prompt.?
Here we can enter one value, here it can't shows lovs. In catalog colomns we can select the value for which we can insert the pick list. Can you be more specific abut this. What i understand from the question, you have a prompt page with a text box prompt and the user types the value. When the user types the product name 'ex: laptop' and clicks 'finish' the report page has to display all the records relevent to laptop. When the user types 'All' in the text box prompt and clicks 'Finish' the report has to display all the products. BY USING STRING VARIABLE WE CAN SELECT(OR)ENTER MULTIPLE VALUES By using the following condition as the filter for the textbox prompt we can get the data for the specified product as well as All products when we type ALL in textbox prompt