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misscognos:
Hi,

I know you can enable legacy components. But, if you don't AS functionality seems to be missing. Is any aware of plans for the replacement for AS when legacy components will no longer be available? You don't need a lot of skill to use AS but you need more skills to use RS (and the reporting studio in CA). Have there been any announcements that I may have missed? The way you can explore a cube in AS cannot be done outside it. Power play studio is the closest I can think of but we don't have it.

MFGF:

--- Quote from: misscognos on 25 Oct 2017 08:13:43 am ---Hi,

I know you can enable legacy components. But, if you don't AS functionality seems to be missing. Is any aware of plans for the replacement for AS when legacy components will no longer be available? You don't need a lot of skill to use AS but you need more skills to use RS (and the reporting studio in CA). Have there been any announcements that I may have missed? The way you can explore a cube in AS cannot be done outside it. Power play studio is the closest I can think of but we don't have it.

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Hi,

Just my opinion, but my guess is the reporting interface in CA will eventually replace Analysis Studio. You can do most of the basic analysis stuff already in Reporting, and the interface is far more intuitive than Report Studio used to be. I'd guess Analysis Studio won't disappear until you can do all the same things in Reporting.

Cheers!

MF.

misscognos:
Thanks! I am fairly new to ca but not all new to cognos and I thought I may have overlooked something.

I said the exact same thing to my boss. Just wanted to make sure I didn't miss something.

"Live exploration" is what I mean. I couldn't find a way to do it in reporting. So dump some dimensions and a measure and you see it right away without having to run.

It has been announced that cognos admin will be changed. Nothing has been announced for this. What I fear is that down the road we may need to buy powerplay. Our users are not sophisticated enough for that and when we moved from series 7, analysis studio was more than sufficient even though everyone knows that pp studio was the intended replacement.

MFGF:

--- Quote from: misscognos on 25 Oct 2017 11:58:34 am ---Thanks! I am fairly new to ca but not all new to cognos and I thought I may have overlooked something.

I said the exact same thing to my boss. Just wanted to make sure I didn't miss something.

"Live exploration" is what I mean. I couldn't find a way to do it in reporting. So dump some dimensions and a measure and you see it right away without having to run.

It has been announced that cognos admin will be changed. Nothing has been announced for this. What I fear is that down the road we may need to buy powerplay. Our users are not sophisticated enough for that and when we moved from series 7, analysis studio was more than sufficient even though everyone knows that pp studio was the intended replacement.

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Yes - you can do "Live exploration" in reporting. Just use the "Page views" button at the top (looks like an eye) to toggle into Page Preview mode and you'll see live data on the page as you drag your data in. You can also go to More (three dots to the right of the Properties button) and select Options, and from there you can set your desired "Start page view" so that you default to Page Preview every time you author a new report.

If you don't already have PowerPlay, my understanding is you won't be able to purchase it as an add-on. I might be wrong, but I don't think IBM will sell any new licenses for PowerPlay. I'd start looking at migrating your users over from Analysis Studio to Reporting if I was you (assuming Reporting does everything your users need).

Cheers!

MF.

misscognos:
Ahai hadn't seen that! Perfect, so reporting is much better than I thought!

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