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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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By: Austin Rexroat , 22 days ago

Latest Discussions

RE: Add a Column in Cognos report at runtime, and will ...

By: Hashim Raza , 22 hours ago

HI Robert - i just added a Text prompt in my List in the Design Mode, and after Run the report i am able to write values there, but these values are not exported in Excel, while on browser we can write our values. we can say Write back there . Thanks. ...
IBM Cognos first-time users: Monthly Q&A session W ...

By: Zachary Taylor , yesterday

Summary Joing this introduction and Ask-Me-Anything session with the IBM Cognos Analytics product team, created for those new to IBM Cognos Analytics. Bring your questions about building dashboards, visualizations, and reports - or any other question ...
RE: Can you change the default setting not Allow Horizontal ...

By: Kathrina James , yesterday

For all users, if the option is available. ------------------------------ Kathrina James Business Analyst ------------------------------
RE: Can you change the default setting not Allow Horizontal ...

By: brenda grossnickle , yesterday

Do you want to permanently change the default settings for Report -> List -> Properties -> General -> Pagination -> "Allow contents to break across pages" just for yourself or for all users? I don't know the answer on how to change pagination or any of ...

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RE: Execution time dependendies

By: brenda grossnickle , yesterday

How to improve performance by reusing cached data when running a report in Cognos Analytics 11. (ibm.com) - it says per user ------------------------------ brenda grossnickle BI Programmer Analyst FIS ------------------------------
RE: Change of Audit and Content Store

By: Dagur Egonsson , 2 days ago

Hi Robert, found out that we had two installations of Cognos Configuration since upgrading from version 10 to 11. Once I started the current version all parameters where there. Thanks for the tip ! ------------------------------ Dagur Egonsson ---- ...

Have burning questions about IBM Cognos Analytics?

By: Austin Rexroat 3 days ago

Have burning questions about IBM Cognos Analytics? Join our live Ask-Me-Anything (AMA) session on Thursday, May 30th at 10:00 AM EDT. This is your chance to: Engage directly with the Cognos Analytics product management team. Get ...
Migrating from Secure Gateway to Satellite Connector

By: Bimpe Adefowora 18 days ago

Migrating from Secure Gateway to Satellite Connector: In transitioning from Secure Gateway to Satellite Connector we wanted to ensure the experience was intuitive for both new and existing customers of Planning Analytics and Cognos Analytics. ...
Exciting visualization enhancements in the April 2024 (12.0.3) Cognos release

By: Agathe Chapelle 19 days ago

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 ...

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The April 2024 Cognos Analytics release is here! (12.0.3)

By: Tim Aston 22 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 22 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 22 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 ...