Cognos Analytics Upgrade Issues/Observations



Environment:

  • Cognos 11.0.6 on Cloud


Issues/Observations:

  • Some time when you right click on Package to see it's properties, it is missing.
  • On Laptop, sometime report output is cutting some content on header or footer end. On zooming out, problem resolves.


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