By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.One of the biggest challenges in managing a Cognos environment is how to identify and deal with failed reports. This blog is focused on the best way to address this...
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By Paul Hausser, Envisn, Inc.This blog is focused on how to make visible the invisible in Cognos. Administrators need to be able to see Cognos Security the way they need to manage it.
By Gary Larsen, Envisn, Inc. One of the more misunderstood areas of Cognos Security is how object permissions are set and how they need to be managed within Cognos. In this blog article we’re going...
By Elwood Philbrick - Envisn, Inc.In our previous blog on the subject of Cognos Scheduling, we reviewed the basics of scheduling in a Cognos environment. Over time, many environments will get to the...
By Elwood Philbrick - Envisn, Inc.In this article we will cover the basics of scheduling in a Cognos 8 BI environment. The basic challenge is getting the report or cube you want, where and when you...
By Rick Ryan - Envisn, Inc.It’s almost as if there is some immutable law that dictates that as things become larger they become inherently more complex. There are certainly enough examples around...
By Rick Ryan - Envisn, Inc.In our recent posts to the Envisn blog one of my colleagues, Eugene Marcotte, shared some of his learnings on the Cognos audit logs and the data tables. Our work with them...
By Eugene Marcotte - Envisn, Inc. In my last article I discussed the Cognos audit tables – what they are, what they contain and I provided a link to the sample Cognos Package that can be used to...
By Kathie Davis - Envisn, Inc.This BLOG will focus on planning and executing a Cognos BI migration between versions. Most of these recommendations are broad enough to be considered for all types of...
Eugene Marcotte - Envisn, Inc.In Part I we covered Cognos Framework Manager and transforming XML documents for IBM Cognos BI using XSLT. Here we will cover using XQuery.
