Hi Friends, Just want to know, day to day is increasing or decreasing Cognos Usage in the Market? New Reporting tools to driving Reporting Market Spotfire, Tableau,Qlick View, some other New Tools. Which Reporting tool can generate Lot of Opportinities in the Market? Please Reply to this, My Advanced Thank to you. Thank You Kumar

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i was asked what are the caluclations done by you in your report? plz give reply

0 Answers   IBM,

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how to improve performance in report studio level

1 Answers   Wipro,

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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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at what level u prepared the reports in cognos???? in dataware housing what is the automation tool u r using???

1 Answers   Covansys, IBM, Wipro,

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Give me any example of semi and non additive measures?

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What is the difference b/w macros and prompt?

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There is any option to delete temp files automatically from temp directory in COGNOS? (without manual)

1 Answers   CTS, IBM,

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APPLYING COLORS TO ALTERNATE ROWS IN A LIST REPORT

5 Answers   Satyam,

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Can we create 2 conditions in report expression of a single data item..Eg: I added 2 new dataitems each one should show revenue for Q1 and Q2..Pls advice

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In which type of report we can create school time table in cognos? [I want period numbers in rows like period 1, Period 2, period 3, period 4, period 5 and class numbers in columns like 8th class, 9th class, 10th class and subject names in cells] Genelally school time table is prepared in crosstab report, but subject names are not measures and a crosstab cell can not contain non-measures. This is my problem,,,,,

2 Answers   Tech Mahindra,

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Write some methods to apply securities in framework manager model?

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