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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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  • Learning and certification opportunities
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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.

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Latest Discussions

  • Post: Find Schedules Associated with Cognos Reports MotioPI gives you the ability to search for schedules associated with reports, jobs, report views, and query objects in Cognos. Select the "Schedule Tab" from the panel column in MotioPI. ...

  • Hi Lokewara To clean up user content you need to run a maintenance task. Content store maintenance tasks - IBM Documentation ------------------------------ TREVOR COMEAU ------------------------------

  • (1) If the schedule belongs to an object (like report) that is located in users profile (my content) then anything including the schedule will be removed. (2) If the object that is scheduled is located outside of users profile (somewhere in team content) ...

  • Hello Cognos Experts, I'm looking SQL query for the Cognos content store database to extract details about scheduled reports. Specifically, I need a query that will provide: Schedule Owner Name Schedule Owner Email Report Name/View Name ...

  • I'm not 100% sure, but my understanding is that if you remove the userprofile, the user reports, including the schedule, will be deleted along with the profile. ------------------------------ Nabin Poudyal ------------------------------

Latest Blogs

  • At every release, Cognos Analytics prioritizes performance improvements to ensure a seamless user experience and faster insights delivery. In this blog, we will be introduced to few additional key techniques that serve as the initial touchpoints when ...

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  • Due to the complex integrated nature of the bundled experience with Cognos Analytics and Satellite Connector, our teams are taking extra care to ensure the implementation and migration approach from Secure Gateway to Satellite Connector are as seamless ...

  • We want to inform you that the Cognos Dashboard Embedded service on IBM Cloud Catalog is being phased out. All of your existing dashboards will continue to operate smoothly until support officially ends on September 30, 2024. To ensure a seamless ...

  • Another frabjous day! You can now edit Unions, intersects, and excepts With the release of Cognos Analytics (CA) 12.0.2, you can edit set operations (Unions, intersects, and excepts). This is an extension of the ability to edit views, which was introduced ...

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  • As we transition both Cognos and Planning Analytics to Satellite from Secure Gateway we are looking to minimize the number of inactive connections where possible. This will help us ensure a smoother migration of the connections our customers are utilizing. ...

  • The business intelligence (BI) software market is projected to surge to USD 27.9 billion by 2027, yet only 30% of employees use traditional BI tools, creating a huge gap between investment and impact. This is often due to their complexity. The ...

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