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Get Data vs Send Data
Nowadays Cognos EP system should look like a set of Contributor Applications exchanging data. That’s an axiom, refer to Cognos Since we have these numerous apps, we need to transfer data between them....
View ArticleCognos Contributor easter egg
Can you imagine such a Contributor Application: 2 Cubes (A&B for example), each linked to each other so that when you input a value in a cube A cell, corresponding cube B cell changes to that...
View ArticleCognos “Real-time” Reporting on Contributor Data
8.2 makes many things nice&simple. To get a full budget report we need to do the following: 1) Publish the whole application 2) Run the report on published data Publishing a typical...
View ArticleCognos Enterprise Planning Design principles
Usually these are the signs of coming disaster in an EP system: 1) too many dlists of the same “dimension”, some elements thrown out for cutting volumes, calculating or not calculating smth, and you...
View ArticleThat parallel-parallel Contibutor
Remember me muttering about array languages? Just in case, famous Jhost7.exe is a J language execution process. So every computation in Contributor is performed by array-processing J machine, packed to...
View ArticleMore on real-time reporting on Contributor
Since I’ve got a couple of questions considering how to do it, I’ll get in more details on setting up Event Manager to detect application changes. See original post, and mind the second PS, especially....
View ArticleIncremental Publish in EP
Just found an excellent option “Table-only Publish Post-GTP” that detects changes that make incremental publish incompatible and republishes application. It should be set to “Yes” by default, imho. See...
View ArticleIncremental Administration Links
In 8.2 we’ve got incremental publishing, allowing us to create real-time reporting on contributor data and that sets up new frontier in model data transfer speed. Now the slowest part of models are...
View ArticleContributor transactional logic example
Finally, we’ve solved problem stated in communities. And Robert allowed me to publish resulting library here as well. See attached zip file. Problem statement We have 2 cubes, one containing product...
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TM1 + Enterprise Planning, When, Why and How?
This post will be some extracts from a recent PoC, where we made a complex planning system including a rich scenario modeling part. So it was our first big TM1 + EP integration experience. Some basic...
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