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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
  • Participation in community challenges

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

  • Hi everyone, You can watch the on-demand recording here . Please let me know if you have any questions below! ------------------------------ Sophie Kim Yen Liem Product Marketing Manager, Process Mining & Blueworks Live IBM Italy ------------ ...

  • Hi everyone, You can watch the on-demand recording here . Please let me know if you have any questions below! ------------------------------ Sophie Kim Yen Liem Product Marketing Manager, Process Mining & Blueworks Live IBM Italy ------------ ...

  • Why not let them start directly on teamcontent? Instead of the homepage? By just adding a small tekst to the url: ..ibmcognos/bi/?perspective=content. And let them set teamcontent as a list and compact. The Cognos 12 teamcontent feels the most like ...

  • Hello, I experienced problems in Transformer when upgrading Cognos from 11.2.4 FP2 to FP3. For me, opening the updated Transformer version, I would try to open my previously saved cube models (we use IQDs as data sources), and the Transformer interface ...

  • Hi Henk, I would appreciate your help in understanding and solving this issue. I have sent email for the same. ------------------------------ Yugandhar Jebiti ------------------------------

  • Thank you for your response Roger, Is it possible to setup the Dbeaver for Cognos analytics? If yes, please let me know the procedure. if I have 1000 lines of SQL statements, it is impossible to debug 1000 one by one, I am looking for an optimized solution ...

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 ...

  • 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 ...

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  • 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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