Cognos 10.2.2 New Features
1. Pre-Defined Templates and Style References
A template is a report without metadata from which other reports can be created against any package in order to expedite and standardize the development process
2. Tabs for Report Output
Allow the report author to specify whether report pages should function as pages or as tabs in the report output
3. Dynamic Cubes Hardware Sizing Wizard
The Hardware Sizing wizard helps take the guesswork out of allocating memory, CPU, and hard disk to your dynamic cubes. Simply right click on your cube to open the Input Dialog where you will enter information about your cube, such as the number of users, members, and attributes.
4. Live Preview of Active Report
With the new Active Report live preview feature within Report Studio, you no longer have to download an MHT file every time you want to view and test and Active Report. You can now preview your report directly from Report Studio with the click of a button.
5. My Data Sets Feature
The new My Data Sets feature allows users to do more robust analyses of data that lives outside of a Cognos framework model or cube. This feature allows end users to import their own Excel or text files, which are turned into Cognos packages that the user can then use for analysis or reporting.
My Data Sets differs from the current External Data feature in three main ways
• First, with My Data Sets, much higher volumes of Excel and text data can be imported
• Second, this data now persists on the Cognos server for as long as the user or administrator specifies.
• Finally, rather than being incorporated into an existing Cognos package, My Data Sets are created as standalone packages.
6. Extensible Visualization Enhancements
New Extensible Visualizations
• Chord chart
This visualizes relationships between categories by the thickness of the line between the categories
• Combination chart
Allows for both bar and line chart, leveraging different axes, to be displayed on the same visual.
• Tornado chart
It is a bar chart where categories are listed vertically, typically with two metrics to be compared to one another.
7. Cube Designer Enhancements
• Custom Relative Time
The new Custom Relative Time ability allows the modeler to establish custom relative time members in Cube Designer using the same properties available in Transformer
• Import Framework Model Metadata to Cube Designer
Another new feature in Cube Designer is the ability to import Framework Manager Metadata directly and use it as the basis for a Dynamic Cube.
8. In Memory Aggregates
• User Defined In Memory Aggregates
User Defined In Memory Aggregates allow the Cognos administrator to define new aggregates manually, rather than relying solely on what the Aggregate Advisor recommends
• Autonomic Optimization of In Memory Aggregates
Enabling autonomic optimization of in memory aggregates on a dynamic cube will allow the cube to periodically run a limited version of the Aggregate Advisor in the background while the cube is running.
9. Framework Manager Enhancements
• Bridge Query Subjects
The new Bridge Query Subject in Framework Manager allows the modeler to now simply set the usage property of a query subject to ‘Bridge’ while maintaining a one to many relationship and Cognos will identify this as a bridge table rather than a fact table
• Filter Join Optimization
This new feature allows Cognos to filter one side of a join using the values retrieved by the other side
• Parameter Map Refresh
These values were previously cached for the duration of a user’s session, now you can specify down to the second, how long the values will be cached.
• Summary Query Subjects
New Summary Query Subjects in Framework Manager allow you to specify grouping and aggregation in the framework model query subject
10. User Interface Profiles
This tool allows administrators to customize the UI elements and default behaviors for each studio in Cognos. Once enabled, administrators will see the User Interface Profiles section under the Library tab.
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