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Demystifying IBM Cognos 8 Security

October 28, 2009 by
C8 Security Model

One of the most challenging aspects of establishing any enterprise business intelligence platform is the design and implementation of a security model that is flexible and extensible enough to meet the needs of your business while also remaining simple enough to administer and maintain. Every organization is unique in how they operate, so a structure [...]

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How to Implement a Dynamic Page Break Using an Optional Filter

October 27, 2009 by
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Page Breaking is a useful feature to offer report consumers. However, it’s often difficult to do this if the item you want to break on is dynamic. Here we show you how to do this with cascading, optional prompts while page breaking on the lowest level chosen.

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How to Enhance Text Box Prompts in IBM Cognos 8 with On-The-Fly Validation

September 16, 2009 by

One of the issues with using text box prompts is the possibility of receiving incorrect, misspelled, or non-existent entries. This allows the report to run and return unexpected data. Recognizing this, a user would have to return to the prompt page to re-enter values into the text box prompt. Wouldn’t it be nice if there [...]

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