IBM Cognos 11.0.8 on Cloud Issues and Resolutions


1. When running report, we got error for oracle driver missing. It was restored by IBM to resolve the issue
 2. Non-interactive Reports drill through to Excel doesn't work. An interim fix was applied to Cognos 11.0.8.
 3. Excel output based reports were taking more than 5 minutes to run. Root cause identified was Image folder access/path was not enabled and causing report to stuck for 5 minutes. IBM resolved it via PMR.
 4. When calling reports in Dashboard as web page url, drill through defined via image not working. It was working fine in 11.0.7. Issue is under investigation with IBM.
 5. Data sets can not be scheduled with dependencies to each other thus limiting it's usage to sumarrize data over base data sets. They can't be added to Job or Event Studio to define auto refresh. As per IBM, This is planned for future release.
 6. Reports name can't be changed dynamically based on parameters. There is RFE raised for this enhancement.
7. Audit database timezone was 1 hour behind EST.
8. Data sets icons in scheduled tab of Cognos Admin console -> Status are not visible.
9. Deployment folder location shared so shared path between two different version of environment (Production being lower) was broken.
10. Cognos Office 11 is still have limitation to render list/crosstabs in word document.
11. In Drill through window, when there are long list of parameters, setting parameters after scrolling down, reset window to top row instead of keeping focus to current view. This is possible defect in UI.
12. In Report - Query Explorer when a query is selected, it shows which query is selected but when a data item within query is selected, highlight on query selected is lost. Since there are no up/down arrow like 10.2.2, in long list of queries, query navigation focus is lost. This is another possible UI bug.
13. Sharepoint as data source is available only for CQM; hence it will not work on cloud.
14. When report is set for different format to run by default, unlike Cognos 10.2.2, report icons don't reflect it.
15. When using data module as source for query with a filter, running tabular data gives error whereas report runs fine applying the filter. It's possibly a defect.
16. Cognos Admin Console logon taking longer time. There are parameters to set for openid with OKTA to improve performance. Issue is still under investigation with IBM.






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