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Thanks for your reply! I'm using Sybase and asa it turns out my admin logon didn't have execute rights and therefore Cognos would not import the procedures. Once the rights were granted to my ID the procedured imported as expected. Thsnks for your help. Issue resolved! Tom

Object to import existing stored procedures into Cognos Framework Manager >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< After running the Metadata Import Wizard and selecting the data source I expanded Procedures. A this point none of the existing procedures were available (or...

After completing an initial installtion of Cognos 8.4 and starting the services, it seems to be running fine for a while and then without warning, it simply stops with the following error: The IBM Cognos gateway is unable to connect to the IBM Cognos BI server. The server may be unavailable or...

Hey Dude, Just thought you should know that regardless of your conditional formatting results, both queries will execute at run time. If performance is an issue this could and unneeded overhead to your report. A suggestion would be to convert to native SQL and place a condition around the...

If I read your question correctly... Check to make sure that your naming conventions are consistent. You should have only one common name for each date value. If they aren't you will be prompted twice. IN some prior versions of Cognos there was a bug and you had to delete the prompts and...

I love it when i get to answer my own question... The fact is can only import from Erwin once! Other wise you risk over writing work you've already completed.

We are looking to share a single Content Store (installed on a Windows 2003 box) in three virtual environments (ITS, ITS2 and ITS3) using vmware. Sr far we're getting the error that the dispatcher is still initializing... In the log file we see the error DRP-CMI-4009 Unable to determine the...

Although imports from Erwin are common, can a Framework model be updated and/or maintained from an external Erwin design model?

Da... I forgot that the session parameters contain these values. Just use the syntax: #sq($account.personalinfo.userName)# I answered my own question... Da....

I have a requirement to get the RACF for a ReportStudio report. Is there any way to acquire the RACF ID? Thanks Near

When I "Manage" versions, they appear in alphabetic order. But when I go in to open the dropdown list it appears to be in random order.

Thanks! But I'm pretty sure there is a settings perhaps in a XML file that can be set to eliminate the column name. I'll look further into it. Thanks anyway for the prompt reply!!!

Does anyone know where the atrribute is set to dispable the column name from displaying in a drop down control? C8 Thanks

When scheduling excel reports and then try to email them, they show up with a .mht extension. How can that be changed to show the .xls extension.

In Framework we created a Query Subject Dimension and Query subject Measure which works fine, However we'd like to control the sort of some of the Dimensional Data. Is there a way to manually change the sorting defaults in Framework? Thanks NEAR