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Has anyone had issues with the following error in Cognos 8.3 running on Weblogic? CNC-GEN-2151 An error occurred while extracting the SOAP header from the SOAP envelope. CNC-SDS-0390 There was an error when extracting the BiBusHeader. The error is [null]. Any fix? Thanks. Mark Stewart...

Has any one had any success with setting the following parameter. Are there any dangers associated with sending an .xls file? Description: By default when you send by email Excel report the file extension is .html or .mht. You can change it to a .xls extension. To do this you must add a...

Is there a report I can create to report on ownership of Rpts/Jobs/Folders in Cognos 8.2? This is becomes more useful when employees come and go. We'd rather have individual ownership of things as a opposed to generic ownership and at the same time be able to track ownership on a regular...

Is there a current method or upcoming method to detect Cognos job failures (via email notification etc.) in Cognos? We have on multiple occasions now inadvertently published incorrect results because of scheduled jobs failing in Cognos. Is Cognos able to provide anything to us regarding...

I have a few spreadsheets I'm rendering and I'd like to have the contents viewable on a single page. Is there a was to control the page with in Excel to prevent users from having to scroll to the right? Thanks Mark Stewart Business Intelligence Consultant Consultants Club Corp. Windsor...

I have a question for those of you familiar with setting up Cognos 8 jobs in the scheduler. I created a job on the test server that executes 8 reports that get emailed with a message. I like and would like it to go to production. Is there a way to copy that job over there? Mark Stewart...

Hey gurus, I created a Cognos 8 Scheduler job that contains 4 reports producing .pdf output and 4 that produce .csv output. These 8 reports require email distribution. I executed the job and got 8 emails in my Inbox. Do you know how to change it so that it’s 1 mail with 8 attachments...

Hey there, I have a time dimension I want to build for the calendar below. I have two tables that contain the information below. How can I build this dimension? I was thinking one data source could fuel the time dimension and the other data source could have the effective dates that could go...

I'm having an issue with a prompt I'm creating for a report user (In Framework Manager). I need to give the user a list of Financial Months to pick from a drop down list. In the Prompt Info properties I'm selecting a different display value then the filter item. The filter item will be the...

I'm having problems installing the DataStage Release 7.0 Tutorial CD. Has anyone else tried to install this on their PC. It says DataStage Server Installation not found. DataStage must be installed on your machine. However I have client on my machine. The DataStage server is actually a UNIX...

Framework converts timestamp(6) with time zone incorrectly to a characterlength16 format. Obviously Cognos Frawmwork does not know what to do with a timestamp(6) with time zone format. Can anyone recomment a work around? Has anyone had similiar issues? Thanks, Mark Stewart Senior Analyst...

We are embarking on creating standards for the way our reports will be organized in Cognos Connection. Can anyone share any best practices or organization tips that they may have implemented that contributed to ease of use for all. Thanks, Mark Stewart Senior Analyst Consultants Club Corp...

How do you see the SQL that ReportNet generates for a report like you can in Impromptu? Thanks, Mark Stewart Senior Analyst Consultants Club Corp. Windsor, Ontario Canada www.consultantsclub.biz

I've been using SQL Navigator for the past year and now find myself back using Toad again. In SQL Navigator you can just lick on the select as updatable button to change values in a record. How do you do the same thing in Toad? Seems like it should be easy but I can't find it. Thanks, Mark...

I'm getting an annoying peice of code that refuses to work with me. I'm trying to save a simple report out to a .csv without any luck. I'm getting Error: 440 Export destination file cannot be opened. The path is correct. I even tried just sending it to c:\ and still nothing. What could be...

I have a scenario that exists where a report needs a customers billing address and their home address. This address can be different. There are 3 tables involved... Account Table - bill_address_key Customer Table - address_key Address Table - address_key In my catalog I defined a join from...

I'm reading up on the latest Cognos commitments. Our initial purchase is 500 coupons... For public education it's 2 coupons for one student day of standard public education and 3 coupons for advanced public education. I was wanting to take the 4 day ReportNet fast track classes. How many...

We have a number of applications written in VB6 and the client is asking we move quickly to rewrite the reports in some other language. This is because of Microsoft dropping support of VB6. Is anyone else moving away from V6 because of the support issues? If so what do you intend to use as...

I've been asked to convert some Impromptu reports to ReportNet. The vast majority of these reports have a Cognos script that goes with it. The ReportNet installation is on a Sun v440 with a Solaris operating system. I'm almost certain that you can write Cognos scripts in Solaris. Is there an...

All the computers in our company are getting Windows XP in mid-July. I assume there will be no impact on the Cognos software running on those machines. Has anyone experienced a similiar transition? Thanks. Mark Stewart Senior Analyst Consultants Club Corp. Windsor, Ontario Canada...