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James MuellerGraceland UniversitySaturday May 30th, 11:00am – 12:00pm

447: Cognos Customization Showcase                   ( and CX/JX II Track Closing )

Jenzabar’s Annual MeetingMay 27 - 30, 2015

Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention CenterNashville, TN

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Performance

User Experience• Appearance • Author Assistance

Why did we Customize?

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\bin\cogdmif.iniControls the way in which Cognos works with Informix for SQL generationNote: Problem 1 should be done by your school

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Caused When• 3 or more tables are needed for your query• 1 or more tables are outer joined in model

Symptom• Generated SQL shows all fields from table in the SELECT clause• Report fails when field level security is on table and user has no

SELECT permissions to a field• Report fails because SQL statement is too long

Example to Reproduce

Problem 1: Entire Table pulled in SELECT

cogdmif.ini.Problem_1.txt

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Solution

Problem 1: Entire Table pulled in SELECT

FIND Nested_Inner_To_Product=TREPLACE Nested_Inner_To_Product=F

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Caused When• Any outer joined table is filtered on

Symptom• If field in outer table is filtered on result set is limited to rows that

meet that filter (essentially making it inner joined)• Think aa_rec and cell phones, you likely want all people on the

report and their cell phone if they have one. Solution and Discussion

• http://lists.jenzabar.net/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=JENZA-COGNOS-L;c2b680b6.1212

Problem 2: Need Informix Extension Outer Join

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MOVE THE HOURGLASSHourglass indicator defaults to middle of page, this moves it upUseful when embedding reports in JICS so users know it is workingFile

QSRVCommonUI.cssLocation

\webcontent\skins\There will be multiple subfolders that contain these filesSearch for name:QSRVCommonUI.css contents: modalwaitpage

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ExampleBefore After

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Do a find and replace in a text editor that support REGEX• Such as Notepad++• Make sure you have “.” matches new line selected

CSS Change

FIND \.modalWaitPage\s\{.*?(?=\})(?<=\n)REPLACE .modalWaitPage\n{\n\tdisplay: block;\n\ttext-

align: center;\n\tz-index: 100;\n\tposition: absolute;\n\ttop: 150px;\n\tleft: 150px;\n

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CUSTOM CSS STYLES IN REPORT STUDIOQuick way to add school colors and styling to reportsXML File Changes

\msgsdk\reportstudio_en.xml\webcontent\pat\res\reportstudio_en.xml

CSS File Changes\webcontent\schemas\GlobalReportStyles_10.css\webcontent\reportstyles\GlobalReportStyles_10.css\bin\GlobalReportStyles_10.css\reportstyles\GlobalReportStyles_10.css

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Example

IE in Compatibility, Outlook IE in Edge, Chrome, Safari, Etc

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Example

In Report Studio

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Not fully CSS 3 compliant for PDF output• Report will fail if it doesn’t know how to handle the CSS• this is Adobe’s code issue

Important Note

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Add below all other IDS_CLASS_* xml string in file (~line 1992*) <string id="IDS_CLASS_[CSS Class Name]">[Report Studio Class Name]</string>

Example: <string id="IDS_CLASS_gukg">Glass: Black</string>

Our Changes:

XML File Changes

* As of version 10.2.2, this changes with versions

CSS_Changes.xml.txt

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! Must add directly to files, will not work with @import Add below @charset "UTF-8" and above IBM CSS

Example:.gulb{

/* Light Blue with Dark Blue Lettering */padding: 4px 5px 4px 6px;color: #050505;background-image: url('https://cognos.graceland.edu/bi/images/system/gulb.svg');background-color: #5DB7F4;

}

Our Changes:

CSS File Changes

CSS_Changes.css.txt

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COMMENT SYNTAX IN REPORT STUDIOAdds a drag and drop Cognos Comment syntax to Report StudioAllows authors to not have to remember the syntaxFiles

\Configuration\Functions\ExpStrings_en.xml\Configuration\Functions\ExpTree.xml

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Example

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Add below <!-- Common Operators --> (~line 106*) <string id="ces_comment.tip" type="String">Adds a comment to your Report Studio Expression</string><string id="ces_comment.syntax" usage="Custom" type="String">#/* Comment Goes Here */#</string>

XML File Changes – ExpStrings_en.xml

* As of version 10.2.2, this changes with versions

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Add below <!-- Common Operators, see COP section in strings files --> (~line 16*)<operator>

<id>ces_comment</id><name>#/* Comment */#</name><dropText>#/*

Comment Goes Here*/#</dropText></operator>

XML File Changes – ExpTree.xml

* As of version 10.2.2, this changes with versions

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DEFAULT QUERY STUDIO TO NO-DATA MODESpeeds authoring in Query StudioFile to change

\templates\ps\async\system.xml.sampleInstructions

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21344995

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TURN OFF QUERY RESULT CACHINGAllows database changes to be seen immediatelyDoes slow down reports when used in rapid succession (re-runs query every time)Template file location

\configuration\CQEConfig.xml.sampleSave as

\bin\CQEConfig.xml\configuration\CQEConfig.xml.sample

Same file as used for Commenting SQL Sent to Informix

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Find and Replace

Changes

FIND <entry name="queryReuse" value="5"/>

REPLACE <entry name="queryReuse" value="0"/>

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COMMENT SQL SENT TO INFORMIXSee from Informix side who is running the SQL from CognosHelpful when trying to find out who is bogging down the system (onstat –g sql SESSID)Template file location

\configuration\CQEConfig.xml.sampleSave as

\bin\CQEConfig.xml\configuration\CQEConfig.xml.sample

Same file as used for Turning Off Query Result Caching

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Example

User

Folder

Report

SQL

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Find and Replace

Changes

FIND <!-- entry name="GenerateCommentInNativeSQL" value="1"-->REPLACE <entry name="GenerateCommentInNativeSQL" value="1"/>

FIND <!-- entry name="NativeCommentMacro" value="#'user=' + $account.defaultName + ' reportPath=' + $reportPath + ' queryName=' + $queryName + ' REMOTE_ADDR=' + $REMOTE_ADDR + ' SERVER_NAME=' + $SERVER_NAME + ' requestID=' + $requestID#"/-->

REPLACE <entry name="NativeCommentMacro" value="#'user=' + $account.defaultName + ' reportPath=' + $reportPath + ' queryName=' + $queryName#"/>

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CX/JX II TRACK CLOSING

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         Enhancement Requests

“…to inform Jenzabar Corporation of the needed and desired product enhancements.”

First year for Institutional Intelligence ehancement requests• Already have: Faster model updates for SMOs

Blank Form:• https://cognos.graceland.edu/public/ERF.docx

Return To:• jmueller@sting.graceland.edu• By first week of June

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Session Requests

Sessions you want to see repeated (any JAM years) Sessions you want to see that haven’t been presented

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Track Opinions / Feedback

Second year we’ve had the II Track First year we had a track coordinator

Send me feedback you want sent on to NACU

Have feedback you don’t want me to know about? Send to:• mgower@springfieldcollege.edu