hi,dis is kumari.I'm searhing on cognos.1 want realtime scenarios with solutions.persons having hands on experience in real time plz help me out. my mail-id is vicky_ceti@yahoo.co.in hope u will respond as soon as possible. thank u in advance

26 Answers   IBM,

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how can you get the errors in job? when loops are araised we get error?

0 Answers   Syntel,

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what is dimention?explain dimentable with example?

3 Answers   Syntel,

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How to configure the Cognos configurations to work in the Windows 2000 Server machine?

1 Answers   IBM, Infosys,

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What is a Query Subject?

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What is render variable?Where do you exactly use in developing a report?

3 Answers   IBM,

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How can we create a dynamic column name in cognos?

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Explain is there any comparison available for cognos reportnet vs crystal reports?

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Part 1 : Cognos 1.What are the technologies that are used in cognos? 2.What are complex reports? 3.What is page break? 4.What is layout component? 5.How do you use extract function? 6.What is the use of Crosstab space? 7.What is Rank()? 8.What is the use of Query calculation and layout calculation? 9.What is Slicer and Dicer? 10.How can you create users in Cognos? 11.What is last child member? 12.What is the use of Conditional blocks? 13.What is Conditional Formatting? 14.What is group span? 15.In which types of reports does the page breaks applicable? Is it applicable in excel reports? 16.I want to show a up arrow and down arrow image in cross tab report, if the revenue is > 5000 (up arrow) and if <5000 (down arrow)? How will you achieve this? 17.What are types of Filters in RS? What is Summary Filter and Detail Filter? 18.What is Cast Function? 19.How will you create prompts for the example like this : In a single report I want a) List report (Need a prompt for this) b) Crosstab report (Need a separate prompt for this) c) Chart ()(Need a separate prompt for this) Part II : Framework Manager (FM) 1. What is Determinant in FM? 2. What is Cardinality? 3. What are the types of filters used in FM? 4. Can we create cubes with Relational Data sources? 5. What is Aliasing and Shortcut? 6. What is Session Parameter & Parameter Maps? 7. How many types of securities that we have in FM? 8. What is Data Security in FM? Part III : Data warehousing 1.What are various types of Schemas? 2.What is Star Schema and Snow Flow Schema? Difference between both? 3.What is surrogate key? Part IV : Databases 1.What are NVL Functions? 2.What is left outer join? Give an Example? 3.Can we straightaway use the tables that we have in the database instead of creating the package’s FM and making use of them, through Report Studio (RS)?

2 Answers   Satyam,

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What are variable report studio?

1 Answers   HCL,

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what r the reports u faced critical and how it can be solved .. any once can u give a best ans for interviw

0 Answers   IBM,

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Why we take so long time to display date prompt before displaying a report? How can we reduce the time?

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