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Envisn's IBM Cognos Blog

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 Eugene Marcotte, Envisn, Inc.

Background

Large complex software systems often have logs for various information that can be useful for debugging, data mining and analysis. When an application or a...

Best Practices for Implementing IBM Cognos BI Security

  By Gary Larsen - Envisn, Inc.(A series of blogs on understanding and managing security in the IBM Cognos environment)If you have read the...

  By Elwood Philbrick - Envisn, Inc.This blog focuses on some of the best practices used by Cognos BI administrators. Most of these have come from some of the key members of our support team and our...

  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.

Eugene Marcotte - Envisn, Inc.This blog article explains some of the issues involved with managing XML data for use in Cognos and some ways you can deal with them. The primary focus is the initial...

by Eugene Marcotte - Envisn, Inc.In Part I we covered the basics of XML data. Here we will continue to broaden this subject area.

by  Eugene Marcotte - Envisn, Inc.This blog article attempts to give a quick overview of Cognos data sources, XML documents and how you can start to bridge the divide between the two. IBM’s developer...