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BI Curious Cognos: September 2011
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Adventures in applying intelligence to Business Intelligence. Friday, September 9, 2011. Display a # of rows per page based on output type. That being said, the user also wanted to potentially run this thing out to HTML or Excel. Well, if the data set is potentially large I want to show a good amount of it on the screen in html but not enough that rendering will take a significant amount of time. For this you can use the Rows Per Page property. What do we do? I assume this is a MHTML. I couldn't figure o...
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BI Curious Cognos: Debugging Cognos Issues
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Adventures in applying intelligence to Business Intelligence. Monday, March 26, 2012. Like the programmers on the Jersey Shore, I like to follow a GTL approach to debugging cognos issues. Cognos is an off the shelf product and has standard error messages. Anything you might see there's a guy with a blog explaining how to fix it. *cough*. Google that error code, message text or other identifying issue. Yes I made this post because I thought of an acronym). November 16, 2012 at 5:29 AM.
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BI Curious Cognos: August 2011
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Adventures in applying intelligence to Business Intelligence. Thursday, August 25, 2011. Interviewing for a BI position. Does HR think BI is junk? I want to know that! I want to know how easy it will be to work in that department, these rankings of maturity don't really answer the main question that I've got when I'm interviewing for a BI position: "How effective is this department, and how interested are it's customers in analytics? What's the 1 and 5 year direction of BI here? Do you have a system of m...
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BI Curious Cognos: October 2011
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Adventures in applying intelligence to Business Intelligence. Tuesday, October 18, 2011. The Downside of Stored Procedure Based Query Items. In Cognos Framework Manage one of the query item options is a stored procedure. This item seems promising, but I would suggest avoiding it. First of all, to setup a stored procedure based query item in framework manager:. Write your stored procedure. It can expect prompts. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Follow Us on Twitter! Simple template. Powered by Blogger.
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Automatically looping through charts in Active Reports | Paul's Cognos Blog
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Paul's Cognos Blog. Cognos, Cognos, Cognos! Book Review: IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager, by Terry Curran. Automatically looping through charts in Active Reports. June 18, 2013. BLOG HAS RELOCATED TO: http:/ cognospaul.com/. Please make sure to update all links and bookmarks. The existing pages will remain, but will not be updated. Comments left here will be ignored. This is the first of a series of articles on extending the usability of Active Reports. I stuck a Data Iterator under it. By pressing t...
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Book Review: IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager, by Terry Curran | Paul's Cognos Blog
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Paul's Cognos Blog. Cognos, Cognos, Cognos! Information On Demand 2013! Automatically looping through charts in Active Reports →. Book Review: IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager, by Terry Curran. June 10, 2013. A well built metamodel is essential for any successful Cognos project. This book offers a solid guide to the best practices for building your model. The entire process of building a model, from joins to dimensional layers, is described in detail. My only criticism is that it is sometimes too short...
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BI Curious Cognos: Why do you want a new job?
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Adventures in applying intelligence to Business Intelligence. Thursday, December 15, 2011. Why do you want a new job? Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail To Keep Their Best Talent. Is it one of these reasons? I've defiantly changed jobs because of some of these complaints. Developers in the BI area have somewhat of a green field of jobs to choose from. Companies need to recognize the retention risks around keeping their most talented employees. January 23, 2015 at 5:41 AM. Follow Us on Twitter!
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Information On Demand 2013! | Paul's Cognos Blog
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Paul's Cognos Blog. Cognos, Cognos, Cognos! Javascript drill up and down buttons. Book Review: IBM Cognos 10 Framework Manager, by Terry Curran →. Information On Demand 2013! June 4, 2013. One of my most memorable moments was waiting for the flight back, talking to a woman from the Miami-Dade police on the way they use Cognos and BI to catch criminals. BSP – G13BSPSOFT. Ironside – G13IRONSDE. Motio – G13MOTIO. PerformanceG2 – G13PERFG2. Obviously, I am planning on going this year, and I have an offer....