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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 , 2 months ago

Latest Discussions

RE: Cognos Analytics 11.2 change Welcome Banner

By: atluri k , 12 hours ago

Have you updated the background color of welcome banner.... Please let me know the process ------------------------------ atluri k ------------------------------
RE: Cognos Analytics 11.2 change Welcome Banner

By: atluri k , 12 hours ago

Have you updated the background color of welcome banner.... Please let me know the process ------------------------------ atluri k ------------------------------
Future-Ready Cognos: Amplyifying Your Analytics Capabilities ...

By: Sherie Wigder , 16 hours ago

It's time for another TechXChange: North Texas User Group virtual event! This is always an educational and fun event where Motio addresses topics to help improve how you oversee, enhance, and harness your Cognos analytics ecosystem. By adopting ...
RE: Crosstab with Column Headers for grouped rows using ...

By: GREG MCDONALD , 17 hours ago

Hi Ralf, I spoke with someone who knows this area well and he feels that this is working correctly and that they area you are looking at is expected to either have a messure in it or nothing. You should log an IBM Idea: https://ideas.ibm.com/ Greg ...
RE: Endless Redirects happening

By: Chris Stadler , 17 hours ago

If this ever happens to anyone else Log directly into each dispatcher and check advanced settings for a login redirect url If when you hit the magic one, it starts looping add ?factoryMode=true to your url remove all login redirects that manifested ...
RE: Reporting, displaying Pages as Tabs - ways to ...

By: Milan Milovanovic , 18 hours ago

I guess it was browser cache. After some tweaking of the report, it started working. Thanks for your help Thomas. ------------------------------ Milan Milovanovic ------------------------------

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Preparing for the Migration to Satellite Connector - Cognos Analytics on Cloud

By: Bimpe Adefowora 13 days ago

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 ...
Important Update: Service removal for Cognos Dashboard Embedded on IBM Cloud Catalog

By: GREG MCDONALD 22 days ago

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

By: IAN HENDERSON one month ago

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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Secure Gateway Connection Clean-up

By: Bimpe Adefowora one month ago

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. ...
Slash BI Complexity & Empower Your Business with Watsonx BI Assistant!

By: Austin Rexroat one month ago

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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More Efficient Report Microcharts

By: Marc Reed one month ago

In this blog I hope to show you how to make a typical microchart report more efficient and easier to write. Microcharts are a great way to visualise data and add visual flair to a report. Here is a very simple list, that shows the sales for each Product ...

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