Monday, August 12, 2013

IBM COGNOS 10.2 iPad mobile report samples xmls and creating the Metric Control active report


The new IBM COGNOS 10.2 active reports and their mobile samples on the iPad are really fascinating to look at on what we can achieve with the new IBM COGNOS version.  To what I have seen and experienced with the creation of active reports; there are a lot of advantages and disadvantages depending on how we want utilize them.  Especially the color scheme and the new graph representation are good; where as the size and the filters options avaialble kills the active report on the other hand. We did find that it has a lot of restrictions on the way filters work. I will add in my opinion of IBM COGNOS active reports soon.

Anyways, I found this URL that leads to the IBM portal with all the report ppts, xmls and screen captures. Every time a new IBM COGNOS mobile sample is updated on the IBM COGNSO iPad app this page gets updated with the report specifications.


The only thing to observe here is that, the ‘Control Metrics’ sample has lots of custom graphs / images that need to be added manually for now.

All you got to do is download the visualizations from 

https://www.analyticszone.com/homepage/web/visualizationsDownload.action 

and import them to your IBM COGNOS install location and you have them available for your active reports; just like any other custom report that we build with our own custom images.

F Y I --- The new IBM COGNOS 10.2.1 has improved icons and colors,  the feel is modern.