Thursday, October 4, 2012

Cognos Diagnostics

Cognos sometimes stops working or it is nearly to freeze. Sometimes we need to watch load balancing and so on..  Here is a list of links that I usually use for troubleshooting:

Dispatcher diagnostics, Cognos load balancing
http://host_name:port/p2pd/servlet/dispatch/p2plbDiag

Memory diagnostics
http://host_name/cognos10/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_action=/diagnostics

Content Manager
http://host_name:port/p2pd/servlet

Dispatcher
http://host_name:port/p2pd/servlet/dispatch


Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Cognos Background Effects

Have you seen Background effects in property list of any Cognos object (chart, table cell, ...)? Have you tried to use it? I tried it several times with no success. Finally I found a clue. At first you must set fix size of the object by setting fix width and hight. Very nice Cognos behavior :-) I love Cognos programmers :-)


You can find short note in Cognos doc here:


The background effect is rendered within the rectangle area that bounds the object. To use a generated background in a chart, the chart must have a fixed size.
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Background effects are rendered only if the data container has a fixed height and width; if a percentage size is used, the effects are ignored.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Cognos, Cognos, Cognos

I am going to share my everyday Cognos experience.