Another February brings another edition of everyone’s favorite yearly head scratcher – the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence! I have expressed some strong opinions on the worth of the Magic Quadrant as a tool for decision makers in the past and this year will be no different. As always I strongly urge you to […]
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The 3 Cognos Query Modes
This is actually a sequel one of the very first blog posts I ever wrote for blueview. While a lot has changed since 2015 understanding the difference between Compatible Query Mode and Dynamic Query Mode is still crucial. With the addition of data sets running on the compute service (aka ‘Flint’) things are even more […]
What being an IBM Champion means to me
I received some great news on Tuesday from IBM – I have been selected as an IBM Champion again in 2020! And not only that, but my colleagues Cognos Paul Mendelson, Sonya Fournier and Mike DeGeus were selected as well. This brings our total IBM Champion count at PMsquare to 4! I’m extremely proud of […]
Relative Time in Framework Manager
Kamil asks an excellent question about relative time in framework manager in response to my Framework Manager vs Data Modules article: Great article. I have one question, is it possible to use relative dates with packages from framework manager? – Kamil Like all questions in Cognos, the short answer is ‘no’ and the long answer […]
Cognos Analytics Data Servers
Joe Schmoe asks a fairly common question about Cognos Analytics data servers in the comments to my Framework Manager vs Data Modules article: In Cognos Analytics 11.1.5, I don’t see a way to use a data source to feed a data module. It looks like in order to use data from a database, you need […]