Gunny,

We had the same issue occur with us and found this to be related to a Web application firewall rule (external to cognos itself) that was preventing http delete actions from reaching cognos when the corporate CDN was used, vs logging into cognos directly (via port 9300) which allowed for "My Content" owned-object deletion by users.

 

I'm assuming that you consciously made the decision to not put the macro into the data source connection property and, instead, pursue this approach. Could you explain why that method was not suitable please. 

Any free training material to use with VAI S2K?

I swear I have done this before and it used to work but somehow in ver 11.2 it doesn't work.

I want to change the Database depending on which Database the user wants to connect to so I created two Data Sources in Cognos and reports are working from both. Now I created a Model Query subject with two columns.

1> DS_ID  - Value is '1'
2> DS_NAME - CASE
    WHEN #prompt('Type NewDB or LegacyDB','string')#  = 'LegacyDB' THEN 'LEGACYDB'
    ELSE 'NEWDB'
  END

LEGACY and NEWDB are the Data Sources in Cognos.

I created a Parameter Map with the name DS_NAME and pointed that to the Model Query Subject. DS_ID as the Key and DS_NAME as the Value.

In the Data Source , property - Content Manager Datasource - I am putting this #$[DS_NAME]{'DS_ID'}#

It gives an error 'QE-DEF-0286 Unable to find the connection #$[DS_NAME]{'DS_ID'}# in the Content Store'

What am I doing wrong?

Quote from: MPritchard55 on 29 Jun 2023 01:08:32 PMNo parameters or filters in the report (other than the interactive filter data drop down for the Active report).  HOWEVER, we do have 3 instances of our db (test, dev, prod) that we get prompted to select one of them every time we run the report.  This is the case with every report.  So every time I schedule a report, I set the prompt to the Prod selection.  I did this when scheduling this report as well. 

Just to be clear....you can absolutely schedule an active report, correct?  It's also only giving me the option of scheduling it to an HTML and yet I could swear you could export it to Excel and still have the interactivity within the excel spreadsheet, no?

Hi ! i've got the same problem witj the scheduling, could you please tell me how did you fixed it ?
Thanks

Quote from: Suarez on 19 Jun 2025 03:51:34 AMHi everybody, Cognos Version is 10.2
After a recovery/restore due to hw server fails we have a problem.
In the IBM content administration we see all the packages we had and the reports works
In the framework we don't have all the project we used to work on.
Is it possible to create a new project importing model data from an already published package?

Hi,

Yes, it's possible to do this, but bear in mind that the model you end up with will only contain what was published in the package.

Take a look at the below tech note for details on how to do this:

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-recover-parts-corrupted-or-lost-framework-manager-model

Cheers!

MF.

Hi,

I am new to Cognos. I have a bit of experience with Power BI and Tableau. Where would be a good place to independently study what Cognos can do for someone who will make reports? I am an EDI business analyst, and my goal is to move to various departments within the organization to do reporting from our ERP, connected to the tool.

Quote from: Cogency on 20 May 2025 11:53:42 PMI've found a 3-step solution

1.    Reverse = reverse([String_Column])
2.    ParseReverse = substring([Reverse], 1, position(' ', [Reverse])-1)
3.    ReverseParseReverse = reverse([ParseReverse])

It's a bit long-winded but it works.

You can use it in one item:

reverse(substring(reverse([String_Column]), 1, position(' ', reverse([String_Column]))))

I am using Cognos 12.0.3 and having issues with sending reports via email.  Currently I have it set up and it tests successfully.  However, when I schedule a report to run and email, it shows as "Waiting" in Activities.

I haven't really been able to find much helpful documentation on this.  But, I have found some info that says I should have an option to configure it under Manage > Configuration, but see nothing there.  The only options I have are System, Logging, Drill Through Defs, and Routing rules. Am I missing something?

I wish to effectively create a "prompt" on a dashboard based on a date column to enable me to select Current Period vs. Prior Period.
Current Period would represent X months of data within the Data Set/Data Module and Prior Period would be the X months immediately prior to Current Period chosen.
Ideally, the selection of X months (or the driving criteria) would be entirely dynamic in the dashboard by the particular user and would not be known at DataSet/Data Module creation.

The current and prior period need to be calculated at Dashboard run time, not Data Set creation time.
One user may want to compare 1/1/2024 - 12/31/2024 (12 months) as Current Period against 1/1/2023 - 12/31/2023 (immediate prior 12 months to current period of 12 months) as Prior Period.
The next user may want to compare 1/1/2025 - 3/31/2025 (3 months) as Current Period against 10/1/2024 - 12/31/2024 (immediate prior 3 months to current period of 3 month) as Prior Period.

If I was in a Report as opposed to a Dashboard, I would create a calculation based on a prompt for the current period that would determine all the current period rows and all the prior period rows.
I could then setup calculations for variances, etc.

However, I don't know how/if this dynamic calculation is evenpossible in a Dashboard?
Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Adam