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Hi All, Happy Friday. So here's the scenario... older Dell Dimension E520 running XP Pro, Pentium processor, 3 Gig RAM, 260 Gig HD, Integrated Video Intel G965 Chipset. This unit has served me well over the years, but over time has become slow and less responsive. As the machine is no longer...

Hi Everyone, Win XP SP3 on a Dell Dimension 1 Gig ram. I cannot get on the internet with either IE or Firefox. It appears something is blocking access. I'm also going through AVG hell. It didn't install properly and I had a hell of a time getting rid of it. I tried a system restore to an...

Okay, so I feel like an idiot and maybe I shouldn’t mess with my computer after ..... [cheers][cheers][cheers][cheers][cheers][cheers][cheers][cheers][cheers][cheers][cheers][cheers][cheers][cheers] Here’s my dilemma. I was messing around with control panel and was in Add Remove Windows...

Hi All, Our user group received a demo of 8.3 recently and we were advised by an offical Cognos rep that the "core product" became available last Friday. For those of you who are interested...... http://support.cognos.com/supported/en/support/downloads/index.html Nuffsaid.

Our OLTP system records transactions with a UTC/GMT timestamp. Business requirements state “Customers want reports based on their respective time zones”. (daylight savings is a non issue at this point) In the past what we have done is duplicated the “fact record” 8 times, once for each...

Hi All, My company is very interested in uncovering consumer web behavior that is buried within our Apache web logs. Currently we use a product called "Sawmill" which is resource intensive and produces limited web analytics. We would prefer to extract this information and populate fact and...

Hi All, We’re currently in the process of migrating from ReportNet to Cognos 8 and I’ve come across a few issues that have made this migration a little painful to say the least. Here’s the latest one. In Report Studio I have a cross tab report that calculates percent of total. This report is...

Hi All, So here’s the situation, I’ve created a couple of scheduled monthly reports that run on the 5th of the current month that return information for the previous month. What I’m trying to accomplish is to display the month and year in the report page header. When I add a Layout Calculation...

Hi All, Using Reportnet and I have a report where I need to prompt the user for a date range and a time zone, then filter based on the responses. The dates in the model are stored in GMT and we created calculations to accomodate various other zones i.e.EST,CST, etc. I've got 2 problems; How...

Hi All, Fairly new to Cognos. Using Report Net / Report Studio. Trying to Drill Through from a summary report to a detailed report using date ranges from the summary report. Not having much success. All help appreciated!! In order to demonstrate what I'm trying to do follow these steps using...

Hi All, We run CE 10 on Windows Server 2003 and I've just been informed by our OS guy that there is now a service pack (sp1) out there that he thinks we should install. Have any of you applied the service pack? What happened? I don't have my test environment anymore for CE 10. Using it to...

Hello All Here's a snipet of an email I received from my sales rep; Upcoming Pricing Changes List prices for all products with the exception of Crystal Reports will increase by an average of 8% in January 2005. For Crystal Enterprise and BusinessObjects Enterprise Premium a 25% price increase...

Hi All, I’m trying to do away with the log on screen using Single Sign On and Windows NT Authentication in CE 10. Using IIS 5 in my test environment, I’ve got the Win NT Authentication working, however I can’t get rid of the log on screen, even after changing the default authentication in...

Hi All So here’s the situation, We currently run a CE 8.5 shop, trying to move to 10. Our current 8.5 configuration is as follows; (all machines are dedicated to CE) Three machine deployment; CRYSTAL0 Windows 2000 Server (SP 3) Dual Processor 1 GIG RAM 1.4 GHz 40 GIG HD IIS 5.0 CE Web...

Hi All, Ok, so I might be in the wrong forum for this, but I thought I’d check in with my peers first. This is more of a stored procedure problem than a Crystal one. The Readers Digest Version: I require information from 2 tables (really 4, detail, header, for each) which I cannot link in...

Hi All, I need a little direction on stored procedures. I know how powerful they can be, but I have no idea on how to write the code. A colleague is more familiar with SPs but we’re still having difficulties. Here is what I’m trying to accomplish. I have info in 3 tables which I cannot link...

Riddle me this Batman…. I have an ODBC connection to a SQL db I created in win 98 which works perfectly on the 98 machine. I recreated the “EXACT SAME” ODBC connection on a Win 2000 Server box, and although I can connect to the db, not all tables are visible. It seems to be logging on to the...

Hi All, So we’re going to upgrade from Info 7.0 to 7.5 (OEM), piece of cake. I’ve heard of lots of people who have made the transition, no problem. We copy the input, output, cache directories and the Cinfo file to another drive, install Info 7.5 on a new box, (Win 2000 from NT 4, gotta keep...

Hi All, Just wondering if any of you have any experience with this. We’ve been having the well-known web server time out problem, the page server error message, etc, etc,. CD sent us a couple of “Hot Fixes”, which are supposed to be self installing, you just click and they search for existing...

Hi All We have this Sql statement which converts real dates into julian dates. I would like to incorporate this statement into my report so a user could enter a date into a parameter field and the sql expression would convert it, then pass it down to the server as a julian date. Although this...