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.
7 comments:
hey hi
glad someone is looking at cognos ipad reports !
one thing i wanted to ask is , did those visualizations worked for you?
I did download all of those visualizations (10.2.1) and had those imported in the library and when i using the reports xml and opening those report, it cant seem to work on those visualizations , maybe some different visualizations were being used.
Any idea , can you help me?
I did download and play with most visualizations and they work absolutely fine for me. If you have any particular visualization that you are looking at then I can brief you more about it. It might also depend on the version of COGNOS you have. Do you have the latest 10.2.1 with the fix pack that was released recently ?
hi,
I am unable to access the link to
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/data/sw-library/cognos/mobile/All/index.html.
Can I get the report specification of Control Metrics report ?
Thanks,
Kailash
kailashbk@gmail.com
Hi Kailash
I have emailed you the XML in a txt file. Let me know if it works.
The link for the Sales Dashboard report spec seems to be showing the Customer Satisfaction report. Anyone have access to the Sales Dashboard report spec?
Thanks Sandeep. This will help a lot. I will have a look at it.
hi many thanks for your sharing.
I learned a lot from your blog.
I am exploring the active report.
Can i have the xml from you for the active report samples which is bundled with the apps?
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