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RE: IBM Cognos Analytics Audit Extension is available for 11.2.4 and 12.0.x

Posted By Richard Chester Thu January 25, 2024 03:16 PM
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Thanks Greg! The link works for me now. Rich ------------------------------ Richard Chester Director of Business Intelligence LPA Software Solutions ------------------------------

RE: IBM Cognos Analytics Audit Extension is available for 11.2.4 and 12.0.x

Posted By Richard Chester Tue January 23, 2024 02:35 PM
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Hi Greg! FYI - the link you provided above returns an error (500) when you go to it directly, or when you search the support page for Audit Extension info. Rich ------------------------------ Richard Chester Director of Business Intelligence LPA Software Solutions ----------------------- ...

RE: Unable to install in-place Cognos 11.1.7

Posted By Richard Chester Thu September 07, 2023 03:58 PM
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Hi Will, This happened to me often, and I used the approach you outline (set to manual, reboot) to get around it. It would have been the first thing I suggested to you! it occurs to me that there are add-ins for Cognos that one installs in the same folder as Cognos (ex: that use the WLP system ...

RE: Email and license requirement with Cognos Analytics

Posted By Richard Chester Wed March 08, 2023 01:28 PM
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Hi Rachel - thank you for the very clear response! A follow-up question that I've received as I've shared your note above: Does this apply to non-bursted outputs too? In other words, if a user never logs into Cognos in any way, shape or form, and they receive an output that was ...

Issues with Unions in reports in 11.2.1

Posted By Richard Chester Thu February 10, 2022 08:21 AM
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​Good morning! We recently upgraded a customer from Cognos 11.0.13 to Cognos 11.2.1 IF3. Windows environment. New server - so not an upgrade in place. After install and config we imported a deployment archive from production 11.0 system into new content store database. In testing after the upgrade ...

RE: Event Studio in version 11.1.7 FP3

Posted By Richard Chester Wed October 20, 2021 07:37 AM
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Good morning Ori, The good news here is that IBM has made Event Studio available in Chrome and Edge Chromium in version 11.2.1, and has plans to include that update in the next 11.1.7 fix pack (#4 - timeframe tbd). Of course, standard disclaimer on future functionality... they might not get it ...

RE: Active Report Viewer

Posted By Richard Chester Thu October 07, 2021 08:19 AM
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I believe the real question here is this: Does a person opening an active report - regardless of how they open it (using this new viewer, using a browser with MHT support, etc.) need a Viewer license (at least) to open it? Not so much a license question on the Viewer tool itself -- but on the act ...

RE: Report Studio - Formatting Zeroes

Posted By Richard Chester Wed September 08, 2021 07:31 AM
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Good morning Mark. My approach to this requirement would be to do the scaling in a calculation -- something like round(AMOUNT / 1000000, 1). Then your format would just include number of decimals (1) and Missing or Zero Value Characters "-". By doing this as a calculation you'll actually have ...

RE: Jupyter Notebooks using R Kernel question - cannot install a package

Posted By Richard Chester Wed September 08, 2021 07:27 AM
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Just a quick follow up to this post: IBM Support has acknowledged that the issue I'm seeing is a bug in the 11.2.0 version of Jupyter Notebooks. A fix is targeted for the 11.2.1 release. Rich ------------------------------ Richard Chester Director of Business Intelligence LPA Software Solutions ...

RE: Jupyter Notebooks using R Kernel question - cannot install a package

Posted By Richard Chester Mon August 23, 2021 10:55 AM
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Hi David, Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, when I issue the first command (devtools::install_github("tidyverse/dplyr")) I receive fatal errors. I'll continue troubleshooting to see if I can get your suggested solution to work. And hopefully others who have worked with the R Kernel will chime ...

Jupyter Notebooks using R Kernel question - cannot install a package

Posted By Richard Chester Thu August 19, 2021 03:48 PM
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Good afternoon Cognos-ers! I'm hoping someone has solved this problem before. I'm getting underway with Jupyter using the R Kernel for the first time. The notebook I'm trying to create needs certain packages installed. One of them is dplyr. In the notebook I issue this command in a cell: ...

Configured Processes vs. High Water Mark - Question about HWM being higher than Configured Max

Posted By Richard Chester Wed August 04, 2021 05:50 PM
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I've noticed something in my 11.1.7FP3 environment that I wonder if anyone has seen before. I do not know that this is unique to 11.1.7.3 -- could be that it happens across many/any releases. What I'm seeing is this: For the Report Service I have 3 processes configured. Most of my dispatchers show ...

RE: Exporting Data in Dashboards

Posted By Richard Chester Thu June 24, 2021 08:33 AM
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Hi Shub, You're welcome! The default "Embed" code that Cognos provides for the iframe (using the Share option) includes &ui_appbar=false and &ui_navbar=false in the code. Of course you could change this code when you use it in your website, but that's what is generated when you click Share for ...

RE: Exporting Data in Dashboards

Posted By Richard Chester Wed June 23, 2021 07:56 AM
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Good morning Shubhendra, The export option that is described in Torben's note, as well as in Alexis' note, is only available to users Editing the Dashboard. It is not available to users Viewing a dashboard. That is why you are not seeing the option in your embedded version, as Dashboards open in Viewing ...

RE: Editing a job in CA 11.2

Posted By Richard Chester Fri May 21, 2021 07:25 AM
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Hi Wayne, The process I outline above is the way to edit these jobs in 11.1 until such time as a fix is released from IBM. You need to leave the 11.1 interface and use the Cognos Connection interface to do it, but it does do the trick. I understand your frustration. I also know that IBM is aware ...

RE: Editing a job in CA 11.2

Posted By Richard Chester Thu May 20, 2021 09:17 AM
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Good morning Kwadwo, I assume you know how to edit jobs using the native 11.1.7 and/or 11.2 interface, and that the job steps do not appear in the interface to edit, or they throw an error when you attempt to edit this way. There have been issues for multiple releases with the job editor - esp. ...

RE: Release date for 11.1.7 FP3

Posted By Richard Chester Thu May 13, 2021 07:46 AM
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To be clear: 11.1.7 FP3 is not yet released to the general public. the latest posting to Fix Central is Interim Fix 5 on April 19. I do hope IBM responds to your original note with an approximate timeframe for its release. We are also eagerly awaiting that fix pack so we can upgrade to the 11.1.7 LTS ...

RE: Check box instead of scroll list as a filter

Posted By Richard Chester Wed April 14, 2021 07:42 AM
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Let me build on Robert's reply. Once you've placed a data item in the "This tab" filter dock, you can click the More button on the right side and choose "Add to canvas". Doing so will add a check-box widget to the canvas that you can place wherever you wish. this is not available for the ...

RE: Past Activities are not listed in My Schedules and Subscriptions

Posted By Richard Chester Tue March 16, 2021 07:24 AM
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Good morning Leslie, The documentation is not super clear here. It's my observation that the Active Content Manager controls the indexes. So at a minimum you should delete the search indexes following the instructions https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-reset-search-indexes-cognos-analytics-1112-and ...

RE: [QUERYSTUDIO] Cognos Portal prevents starting QS with Microsoft Edge Chromium v88 & Chrome v88

Posted By Richard Chester Wed February 24, 2021 08:32 AM
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Query Studio will only open in IE11 and Firefox. It is not supported in Chrome or Edge. It is my understanding from conversations with IBMers that this is not expected to change, as QS is a legacy tool. AS and Event Studio have the same browser limitations. Rich ------------------------------ ...