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Sarmistha Panda

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Cognos Report Studio Performance Tuning

When we run reports, there are a few reports that take a long time to execute. To make it faster we can improve our report performance by following these steps: Prompt Page: We have to ensure that the parameter definition matches the parameter usage. Parameters are defined in filters and calculations. The resulting parameters are […]

How to Fix Excel Merged Columns in Cognos Report Studio

The Cognos default output is ‘HTML’. When we design a report in Report Studio, not only in HTML format, but also in Excel and PDF, the report output should be good. Most of the time when we export to Excel, we experience Merged Cell issues in Excel. Hence it is difficult for the user to sort […]

An Introduction to Cognos Drill Through

Introduction to Cognos Drill-Through Drill-Through is useful to navigate from the Source Report to the Target Report by passing data values between reports. The following example shows a drill-through from the Summary report to a detail report showing Revenue breakup by Product Line. To set the drill-through we have to create a filter parameter in […]