Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Errors, Cognos and Parameter Mapping

I did come across so many errors this week in Cognos. Luckily I could solve most of them. I faced errors like -9, -28. I want to put in complete details and solutions for them, but all the documents related to the errors are at office and I hardly get time in the office to blog. May be this week I could take out 20 minutes and update on couple of errors that I faced.

Parameter mapping is one thing I have been working on for over a week. I did most of the work on the first day itself but I was getting errors. The errors were not clear and were different every time I ran the report. The simple mistake I made was that, in the html code I had given a default value and in the actual value prompt, I did not have a default value. It took me a week to find that out.

My only advice to people who are using html codes is that, first check the cognos report is completely fine and only then add the html code to it. I will try to put the "parameter mapping" code on this blog soon.