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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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Latest Discussions

  • Hi Marc, you cannot use Cognos data items between { }. All elements have to be named like in the native tables like you wold have written manually in SQL. I've never used these kind of Oracle functions but your expression { REGR_SLOPE( [Revenue], ...

  • @NIGEL CAMPBELL Thanks for the link. But I have run out of talent in trying to get CA to use Oracles Linear Regression Functions. For example, let's say I have a query with [Product Line], [Month] and [Sales]. In Oracle I would write something like ...

  • Hello, Why SSO is not working ? It is a huge question that cannot easily answered. Did you use the IIS script provided with the installed version? What kind of delegation are you using (Constrained, Identity Mapping, Other) ? What does the ...

  • ISO-SQL defines functions which may not include a window specification. Dynamic Query provides both a built-in implementation of the ISO-SQL regression aggregates (non-Windowed), it will push them to vendor's whose product/version supports them re the ...

  • I've already created a calendar style report using repeaters but my question is if it's possible to display events that are multi-day... for example something to look like the screenshot below: Please advise. Thank you. ------------------------------ ...

  • Installed IBM Cognos Analytics 12.0.2 and configured it for SSO (single sign on). When URL http://iis-host/ibmcognos/ . is opened in Chrome i am prompted with the message "your connection to site is not private" and prompted for my network username ...

Latest Blogs

  • I was thinking of titling this blog post Conditional, Conditional, Conditional Styles. But the purpose of the post is to show that I only need one Conditional style... Reusing Conditional Styles Within Reports Conditional styles are a great way ...

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  • Just a short post today! Here are some handy hints on how to put developer comments within reports. I always say to my team “if it looks like you’ve done something unusual, then make sure you comment it”. I was told that code is written once but read ...

    4 people like this.
  • Meet Paul Mendelson, a Senior Solutions Architect or Product Manager at PMsquare. He has been an IBM Champion for last 6 years!. With more than 15 years in the industry, Paul is well versed with all phases of the data lifecycle. From planning a warehouse, ...

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  • I am very excited to announce that the support for datasets has been extended to include storing data directly to a DB2 database resulting in a better performance of the dashboard. There is a need to manage data differently so the rendering is faster ...

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  • IBM Secure Gateway has been announced for deprecation (End of Support) on October 26, 2024 ( https://ibm.biz/ibmsg-announce ). IBM Satellite Connector is the new and improved solution offered by IBM for secure connections. In response to this strategic ...

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  • In 12.0.2 on-premise installations of IBM Cognos Analytics, dashboard users will find a new toolbar icon that looks like "< />". This action button generates the html snippet needed to embed 1 or more dashboard elements in any javascript-enabled ...

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