We have seen that cognos macro functions available in framework manager are also available in report studio.
Here is a simple list of existing Cognos Macro with description.
Tag - Cognos
vendredi 13 novembre 2009
Cognos 8 Macro functions list
Par jb le vendredi 13 novembre 2009, 11:24 - Décisionnel
jeudi 12 novembre 2009
Cognos 8 Report Studio's Conditional block
Par jb le jeudi 12 novembre 2009, 16:51 - Décisionnel
Conditional blocks allow you to add multiple reports to one page. By defining multiple zones, for example, you can coose between a Synthesis and a detailed table.
mardi 10 novembre 2009
Last period prompt option in Cognos report Studio
Par jb le mardi 10 novembre 2009, 20:42 - Décisionnel
When you build a new report with some prompts, including a time dimension; you may want to add an option to automatically select the last Period. this way users can :
- see their last data without chosing it in a time tree (but with ability to choose another one).
- schedule a report witch will always select the last period available.
This can be done by using a set containing the #promptmany()# Cognos macro
mercredi 26 août 2009
setup cognos to work with OLAP MSAS cubes security
Par jb le mercredi 26 août 2009, 20:38 - Décisionnel
Usually, when we create a data source in Cognos, it is easier to specify a connection using Cognos Service Credentials. This means that all connections to the data source are done using the Cognos service user's profile.
- Advantage of this method is that it needs less setup on the corresponding database server (only one account).
- Disadvantage is that you cannot make use of "row level security" as all Cognos users will connect using the same profile (Data source has no information about current Cognos user).
To take advantage of an eventual user level security setup behind Cognos data sources, we need to connect using the current Cognos user's profile.
Row Level security in MSAS
Par jb le mercredi 26 août 2009, 07:11 - Décisionnel
Security implementation in Analysis Services
In some cases, companies want to give different level of access to strategic data, depending on user’s profiles. Analysis services gives us ability to secure cubes data by building Roles containing security rules, mainly by filtering dimensions data.For example, if you have a cube giving Turnover amounts per salesperson, salesmen should see only the data corresponding to their sales area only. Also, one manager may want to see data for all areas he’s responsible for.
This document describes how we can achieve security on the sales Area axis for the sales domain. Notice taht in this example, we are using Cognos as reporting tool. This addidional layer has no impact on the way we setup MSAS & Active directory, results will be the same with Microsoft Reporting services
mercredi 23 janvier 2008
Curriculum
Par jb le mercredi 23 janvier 2008, 15:19 - Qui suis-je ?
Jean-Baptiste HEREN, 32 ans. 9 ans d’expérience.
Titre & fonction
Chef de projet Systèmes d'information.
Consultant ERP - Décisionnel - Technos Web