Recent content by MISGeezer

Thanks for your responses - we now have framework 8 and it works. We can create new reports over but cannot 'cut and paste' reprot definitions and get them to work with Cognos 8. I have been trying unsuccessfully to understand what migrations tools are needed to convert ReportNet MR3 reports to...

HELP... I am having a problem setting up Cognos 8, and was wondering if you could help. I have loaded the Cognos 8 software, configured the Web Server and Browser and set up a content store database and user ID in SQL Server 2005. I have also set up a database that I can use for reporting in...

I spoke to quite a few Cognos people on Thursday at the Cognos 8 roadshow. I expected a generally positive response when asking about issues but i got the feeling that migrating from ReportNet to Cognos 8 is generally trouble free. Problems arise if you have any hardcoded SQL in reports or in...

Thanks for your reply - sounds encouraging..! Did you have any specific problems with migrating existing reports or did they all work..?

does anyone have any views on the relative merits of migrating to Cognos 8. I'm starting to see migration issues and bugs that seem like more pain that the migration would be worth. Would I be better off waiting for a few more releases to fix the bugs / issues or is it worth the going through...

I have started the certification and passed the ReportNet User test on my 2nd attempt. The questions are sometimes vague and any of the 4 choices could be correct in my opinion..! However, generally they are clear and well presented. You need to know the interfaces quite well - you might know...

Thanks NAVSHIV This would work but my report is actually made up of about 35 small queries serving a variety of small crosstabs on one page. I'm beginning to think that the work is not worth the end result as I will need anything up to 10 models for each query to get the possible 10 headers for...

Ah - most of my tables will be inner joins...

Now I'm confused ! I am creating a very simple crosstab. I'm dragging diffirent data items for the rows and columns and a simply count of items for the content. Example data set would be Apples Pears Bananas East 2 0 1 West 3 3 3 If I...

I'm beginning to see the error of my ways... The headers are themselves data items so if there is no data item to form the header then the column doesn't get produced... This is probably more to do with the headers than the actual data item... Back to the drawing board..? Geoff

Close ! if I use that data format option I get zero's apperaring in columns all over the place - excellent ! However, if every row of a column has a zero then I still lose the column . Eg I get Column 2 Row 1 When I should get Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Row 0...

I'm referring to ReportNet an the items are numeric... Any help very welcome...!

Hi again... My second post of the day... Does anyone know how to produce a 0 (zero) if no data exists in a particular list or crosstab. Currently I rows or columns for those without any data and I'd like to show a ZERO where no dta exists.. I tried the zeroifnull expression but it says iut is...

Afternoon all... I have potentially two sets of users and I want to be able to present them with their own views of congos connection (home page). I don't want people to have to log in until they need to, just presenting the two sets of 'anonymous users' with some basic stuff until they log...

I get the same error - were cognos able to come up with a solution..? Geoff