Locate and run an existing reports using one of three methods. If your request has not yet started running, you can access the screen via gl responsibility requests view find. If just one report is slow, the issue may be due to a specific report element. This document applies to ibm cognos analytics version 11. Cognos analytics ti process create time dimension the create time dimension turbo integrator process enables users to instantly create a time dimension in planning analytics for a specific year that is specified as a parameter. Because files print more slowly using this option, make sure you specify only. Running reports in cognos san diego unified school district.
The journey to cognos analytics paul rivera, eric smith. To make it faster w e can improve our report performance by following these steps. Also, they need to convert all sas based platform to cognos, or from all sas codebased report into cognos, or modelbased reports. Another cause of problem can be amount of visuals on report page. If all reports from a specific package are slow, the issue may due to the model design. Drillthrough report fails no error, just cognos connection home 2 analytics 11. Report studio renders only the first page in html, whereas it renders the entire report in pdf. For example, the latest release includes an interactive performance assistant ipa to. Tips and tricks for cognos report studio performanceg2. You can also run a report or a group of reports in the ibm cognos analytics portal. How to resolve slow download speeds for attachments from. There is a very long pause cognos bi appears to hang. If a crosstab or chart created in ibm cognos analytics reporting using a dimensional data source has a contextdependent set function such as filter. If possible, can you examine the generated sql and run it directly against the database e.
Cognos 8 getoutput error when running to pdf cognos. The only way i can get this report to run is by manually running the report and saving it. How to gain insight as to what reports the users are running. Get control over the manual processes, upgrades, and development methods in cognos analytics with motioci. This document applies to ibm cognos business intelligence version 10. You can run a report in pdf, xml or in a csv format. Steps you can take to improve the performance of cognos report studio.
Reportnet administration, cognos connection, framework manager, report studio, query studio, sdk. The cognos report is very slow when running using jre version 8. Cognospaul cognos tips, cognos tricks, cognos techniques. To run a report in different formats, select the report and click on run with options.
Our solution helps you become efficient, improve the quality, performance, and accuracy of bi assets, and gain faster time to market. Browsers compatible with cognos analytics knowledgebase. To specify the orientation and page size of your pdf report, from the run. Report tier use the right approach for marker and baseline cache cognos parameter when using baseline and marker mean and standard deviation in cognos chart, your report is probably very slow. The pro is that first page appears fast and user can generate export to excel or pdf, the.
Studio tool cognos analytics report studio cognos workspace advanced viewer merged together. I had the report html output trouble on report retrieving 32000 lines. Motioci ibm cognos analytics management software motio. When we run reports, there are a few reports that take a long time to execute. For example, a value prompt that picks 00 entries will be slow. You can select from different format to select paper size. Ibm very slow logon to cognos connection caused by. While ibm is promising searchable tree prompts in cognos 11. Type a report name, report number or key word in the search field in the upper. If you have copied the native sql and executed it outside of cognos and it takes about 60 seconds, and your report is taking about 60 minutes, the slowness is most likely in local processing of the returned results set things like local calculations, accumulations, conditional formatting, sorting, and the like. You can select from different paper sizes, orientation select data mode. This report can be run by following the prompt screen for this report, or by clicking the hyperlink in the pending transaction column of the bavl report. A diverse set of reports and tools are available via the cognos portal.
Does your ibm cognos environment conform with the supported environments. I have talked to cognos tech support but we havent been able to. Is the performance slow for all reports or just one report. Arithmetic overflow error when running a report in pdf format. The key to improving performance a threephase approach to successfully beat performance issues in ibm cognos there is a need for an integrated approach in solving this problem. Using an ibm cognos report, you can define the fact query and the data you want to import for your powercube. We have to ensure that the parameter definition matches the parameter usage.
Local processing requires the ibm cognos server to compute operations on the result set. Try doing a view tabular data run menu if that comes back in the 60 seconds. Charts in pdf output show unexpected results charts, when viewed in pdf output, have different levels of interaction support, depending on the version of adobe acrobat reader and the style of chart element. As our cubes are now becoming available and we bought cognos 8 were switching from cognos express list reports on relational data to cognos 8 crosstab reports on msas cubes.
Has the report always been slow or did it recently become slow. Parameters are defined in filters and calculations. Alternatively, you can use the tools context menu and select options. See tips to improve your cognos v10 and v11 environment. From there, you will need to click on the ibm cognos bi tab and you can modify the connection to set up the audit.
Set up a cognos report view prior to scheduling a report, you must create a report view, a copy of the report that is stored in your personal folder within cognos. Cognos provides us a way to identify the documents that make up those pending transactions. The architect team decided to apply for the very best data warehousing concept, socalled slow changing dimension type 5, or slowchanging type 2 with bitemporal. In cognos transformer, you can specify unicode as a valid character set. We can use a select and search prompt instead of a value prompt if the list of values are very long. Run a report from the left side navigation bar, singleclick a report folder and then subfolder containing the desired report. In my case i had to activate interactive paging to allow user see first page and able to generate excel file. With file based formats like pdf and excel cognos must fetch all the data and. Sometimes, there will be an attempt of the report running in the run history log but the status would say canceled, without an explanation. The real bottleneck is identified as baseline and marker related queries to calculate mean and stand deviation. Can it be a cognos server problem or a pdf engine on server. Because files print more slowly using this option, make sure you specify only the.
What i would like to do is get a distinct count of the different courses each professor teaches for the fall and spring semesters. An advanced guide to bursting reports in cognos report studio. I have a cognos report that i would like to try and speed up if possible. Browsers treat excel report formats and pdf if it opens outside the browser as popups. The errors do not occur when you run the report in other formats, such as pdf or saved html. My cognos analytics distribution system is wellover specified, but it is still slow.
You can specify not to render a report page if it does not contain any data. Cognos report studio performance tuning perficient blogs. No user would have manually canceled it so were unsure of what that means. You can run mfin reports in cudata if you have a fiscal role on a speedtype or if you have access to the finance system. Also, its likely that prompt will only work in interactive mode, so a noninteractive mode prompt would be very useful. If the cube is big and slow create a smaller cube with just the relevant information in it required by the report.
When you run a report in an export format such as pdf, delimited text csv, microsoft excel spreadsheet software xls, the ibm cognos report name is used as the exported file name. The following is a list of questions that will help you to troubleshoot a slow report. Clicking on the minus sign next to the report name will close the report. Cognos analytics report how long should they take to run. This document is for the business intelligence solutions architect who oversees the setup, administration, and use of ibm cognos bi, a webbased business. Knowing their capabilities will ensure your cognos environment is tuned for best performance and stability. To do this, you can select the create a connection option from the gateway selection drop down. The number of queries on the report will proportionally affect the report execution time.
Running reports page 1 running reports in cognos version 1. Software product compatibility report for cognos analytics 11. Select language in which you want to run the report. If the package that the report is based on contains a design filter, performance is improved. Does the report run slowly for everyone, or just for one user. Cognos analytics has literally hundreds of configurations and settings options. If all reports are slow, the issue may be due to your environment or database. A way to test if this is an issue is to select a slow running report with a single report query and get the. The cognos report is very slow when running using jre. When you run a report in pdf format, curly brackets and parentheses no. Cognos powerplay, the worlds bestselling olap software, lets users analyze large volumes of data with subsecond response times. You may need to do one or more of the following to get cognos 10 reports running on your mac. You can also download documentation in pdf format from the cognos global.
The report takes 4 minutes when i direct the output to html including jumping to the last page to ensure that the whole report is created, 7 minutes when directing output to excel and 8 minutes for a pdf. Ibm business analytics community ibm business analytics. Log in to your campus portal and on the cu resources home tab, click the cudata tile inperson training on how to run and read mfin reports is. Batch report service manages background requests to run reports and.
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