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Welcome to the Cognos Analytics Community!

Communicate directly with IBM subject matter experts, learn from the experiences of fellow Cognos users, and have the opportunity to share your own best practices! The Discussions tab great venue to ask questions of your peers and IBM subject matter experts to share best practices, pitfalls to avoid, and to learn from each other. Navigate to the Blogs tab to read about the latest and greatest, how-tos, best practices, and use cases from our experts and experienced product users. We would love for you to blog with us! IBMers can blog without approval. All other users please apply here to become a blogger. Lastly, don't forget to check up all of our upcoming Events as well as past resources located in the Library tab.

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Tips and tricks from your industry peers
News, announcements, and enhancement details
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You’ll also get information regarding our regional and virtual user group meetings, upcoming webinars, how-to blogs, and training. We invite you to participate and ask that you contact support@communitysite.ibm.com with any questions.

IBM Cognos Analytics Resources:

Check Out IBM Cognos 12.0.3!

By: Austin Rexroat , 5 days ago

Latest Discussions

RE: Change the background color of the Cognos Welcome ...

By: Peyton David , yesterday

Hi Peter, Thank you! This worked for me. However, the information below it did not necessarily shift up as I was hoping for. If I wanted to disable the entire Welcome Banner on the Home page, so that the Custom Home Tabs that I have added in through ...
RE: How to edit content on a report

By: CP24 INDUS , yesterday

Hello @Chris Turner , I was able to fix the issue by doing just what you suggested. I was able to edit the content of the table after unlocking the page. Much appreciate your response. ------------------------------ CP24 INDUS ---------------- ...
RE: How to edit content on a report

By: CP24 INDUS , yesterday

Hello @Robert Dostal , Thank you for your response. It was actually a simple table layout with labels and corresponding data fields. I was able to resolve this issue by simply unlocking the page contents on top right side corner. ------------------------------ ...
RE: Short Date to YYYY-MM Expression

By: Roger Lewin , yesterday

Does it have to be YYYY-MM or would YYYYMM also work? That's even easier ;) cast( year([Renewal Date])*100 + month([Renewal Date] as varchar(6)) ------------------------------ Roger Lewin All for One SE Senior Technical Consultant - Analytics All ...
RE: Activation in Progress

By: Bimpe Adefowora , yesterday

Please sent me an email at adebimpe@ca.ibm.com and I will look into your account ------------------------------ Adebimpe Adefowora IBM Ottawa Canada ------------------------------
RE: Receiving Error Whenever I try to Login to my Trial ...

By: Bimpe Adefowora , yesterday

We are aware of the issue and looking into it. ------------------------------ Adebimpe Adefowora IBM Ottawa Canada ------------------------------

Exciting visualization enhancements in the April 2024 (12.0.3) Cognos release

By: Agathe Chapelle yesterday

Risk Matrix The Risk Matrix is a powerful tool, available as a Custom Visualization for visualizing and understanding potential risks in the business. Presented in a 4x4 grid, it assesses the likelihood and impact consequences of incidents on a scale ...
The April 2024 Cognos Analytics release is here! (12.0.3)

By: Tim Aston 5 days ago

Today I'm happy to announce that our latest release of Cognos Analytics, the April 2024 release, is now available! (Version 12.0.3) Its available for all our on-premise and cloud customers right now! We highly recommend upgrading to this latest release ...
Introducing reusable Native Custom Controls in IBM Cognos Analytics April 2024 (12.0.3) release

By: Shaveta Srivastava 5 days ago

"Seamless User Experience" is the theme for this blog - we are committed to delivering what our customers ask for!! We are thrilled to announce an extremely intuitive method for integrating custom controls into reports. With this latest release, native ...
Having Cognos generate a dashboard for you just got way easier in the April 2024 Cognos release (12.0.3)

By: Tim Aston 5 days ago

Did you know that Cognos Analytics can generate an interactive dashboard from your data automatically? Often the hardest part of building a dashboard is the blank page syndrome , where you don't know how to get going. By starting with a generated ...
Introducing PAaaS data source connection in IBM Cognos Analytics April 2024 (12.0.3) release

By: Shaveta Srivastava 5 days ago

Planning Analytics as a Service is available as a new data source connection within both the on-premise and cloud versions of IBM Cognos Analytics. This integration enables IBM Cognos Analytics users to seamlessly connect to PAaaS cubes, whether they ...

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I'm ready to upgrade Cognos Analytics. Which release should I upgrade to?

By: Tim Aston 16 days ago

For so many of you, Cognos Analytics is a critical part of running your business. You rely on it to deliver analytics you can trust, and you can't afford downtime. So naturally, when it comes time to upgrading Cognos, you prefer to proceed with caution. ...

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