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  1. BICentre

    Anybody recommend something similar for android

    Hi, you can view new books on Amazon Kindle that talk about PhoneGap and cross platform development with HTML5 in general. There`s a few new ones coming out in the spring, but there`s a good primer that i bought the other called ``beginning mobile application development in the cloud for...
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    Blue Prints

    hello, can you be more specific? are you referring to best practices? Wallace Taylor http://bicentre.blogspot.com
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    Error Messagge displayed when trying to run the report in PDF in Cogno

    Hello, you need to supply a value for the paramter 'pStr'. You should check to see if you set it to mandatory or optional and if you entered a default value. Wallace Taylor http://bicentre.blogspot.com
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    Back up reports in Cognos 8 Report Studio

    hello, you can create a deployment package based on these reports which will generate .zip for their metadata. another option is to locally save the report specs as .xml files into a versioning control software or to your hard drive. Wallace Taylor http://bicentre.blogspot.com
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    Adding a prompt based on previous selection on Prompt Page

    hello, you could also explore cascading prompts and this would allow you to have the prompts all on one page. Wallace Taylor http://bicentre.blogspot.com
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    report status

    Hello, if you want to find the specific details for a report then you can use the Cognos SDK to view its status and you should also be able to capture this info from the generated log files. You would have to enable logging from the Server Administration panel in Cognos Connection. Wallace...
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    Report Studio for vs for all

    Hello, can you put this into some type of context and show us the Cognos definition? Wallace Taylor http://bicentre.blogspot.com
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    Monitoring Cognos Services / Processes

    Hello, I'm not familiar with a 3rd party tool but have you tried to find the corelation between the process values for cogbootstrapservice.exe, BIBusTKServerMain.exe, Java.exe and the specific Cognos activities that you're performing? If so, then you can use the Audit package along with Event...
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    modifiing cognos report

    Hello, juanita1963. Are you able to view the generated SQL before applying the filter? If so, then review it to see if you do reference the expected data column. Also, you should validate that your filter is logical and that you're attempting to filter a numeric on numeric, text on text...
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    Cognos 8.2 Report/Job/Folder Ownership

    Hello, did you check if the Audit package would capture this info? You could also use the SDK to achieve this result. Wallace Taylor http://bicentre.blogspot.com
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    Send a report by mail, is that possible ?

    Hello, don't forget to confirm if you have the correct license type to do this action. I believe that you would need BIRecipient...or something like that. Wallace Taylor http://bicentre.blogspot.com
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    Joining local results in query explorer?

    Hello, the first question is why can't they be reproduced in FM? Could you create SPROCs that use the required SQL statements and crate SPROC based query subjects in FM? You could then re-publish and use them in Query Studio. Wallace Taylor http://bicentre.blogspot.com
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    how can i check the prompt status?

    Hello, it sounds as if you're running into a tricky situation, but here's a couple of thoughts: You essentially need to get at the date controls default value and do a validation on the prompt page. Try adding a HTML item with a .js that will set the control's value to your default value (ie...
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    Cognos BI Architect Jobs

    Hello, I'm not to sure about Kuwait specifically but this site gives you some of the global Cognos jobs that are currently available. http://c8jobs.blogspot.com/2008/01/httpc8jobsblogspotcom.html Good luck! Wallace Taylor http://bicentre.blogspot.com
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    question on prompts

    Hello, what happens when you hard code a value instead of using the prompt? Do you get a result set? If so, then are you having any issues with datatypes where you think that you're passing 2 but it's actually '2'? Did you try breaking down the query to a very basic: select T1.STU_ID...
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    question on prompts

    Yes. Assuming of course that your operations have the correct data types where column name is a numerical value and not a textual value. The syntax that you have in your example wouldn't work. Wallace Taylor http://bicentre.blogspot.com
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    question on prompts

    Hello, yes you can use a ReportExpression on your report in order to work with the prompt. The sample below will prompt you for a parameter value to add to the EmpCount. Your ReportExpression would then display the EmpCount + your prompt value. TblA ---- EmpCount (int) ReportExpression...
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    Open URL in Cognos Connection in new window ??

    Hello, yes you can do this by modifying your C8 environment to have a new .xts morphlet. Your Cognos Connection URL item's property would contain a reference to the morphlet such as...
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    Cognos Scheduled Jobs Failing (Integrity Risk)

    Yes, you would want to visit the documentation on Event Management. You can create a task in Event Studio that will monitor success and failure for various activities that are logged to your Audit datbase. This will also mean that you'll need to have logging turned on in your Cognos Connection...
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    Steps to create a production environment ?

    Hello, ideally you would want all of your environments to replicate each other and you just change the specific domain values. Is there a specific question related to your PROD environment that you need to know? You may want to consider your security settings, logging levels, and ensuring that...

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