Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Step 3: Login to Cognos Connection and begin writing the report. (Make sure your IE settings are correct.)
Step 1: Become Familiar with the ODS data for the report
Use the ODS Metadata Business Concept Diagrams to become familiar with the joins (relationships), keys, hub views, and the various reporting views available for your report . http://www.temple.edu/ers/metadata
See the document How to Find a Banner Field in the ODS on the ERS/Report Studio Web page.
Step 2: Locate the data items needed in a Cognos package. Use the ERS developed MS Excel spreadsheet to locate the required packages, subjects, and query items/fields. List of ODS packages, query subjects, and query items/fields
Grab as many query items as you can from the hub query subject/view.
Use as many recommended search columns as possible for report columns, filters, and sorts.
Use as many recommended search columns as possible for report columns, filters, and sorts.
Example:
[Course Catalog].[Course Catalog].[COURSE_IDENTIFICATION] [Course Catalog].[Course Catalog].[SUBJECT] [Course Catalog].[Course Catalog].[COURSE_NUMBER] [Course Catalog].[Course Catalog].[ACADEMIC_YEAR] [Course Catalog].[Course Catalog].[ACADEMIC_PERIOD] [Course Catalog].[Course Attribute].[COURSE_ATTRIBUTE] [Course Catalog].[Course Attribute].[COURSE_ATTRIBUTE_DESC] [Course Catalog].[Course Coreq].[COURSE_TYPE] [Course Catalog].[Course Coreq].[COURSE_TYPE_DESC]
Include the filter and it takes 1 second. Academic Period is a recommended search column for the Course Catalog query subject.
Use as few queries and query subjects as possible for better performance.
Use hard coded prompts when possible versus query sources, including List of Values (LOV).
LOV is useful when there are a lot of possible values. However, the user can then select a valid value that results in no data being returned. For example, Academic Period LOV includes values like 202036.
Use as many filters as possible to limit the amount of data requested from the ODS.
Build the report one query subject at a time to monitor when performance issues occur. Use the tabular view to test your query performance.
Use the view tabular data feature in Report Studio to help troubleshoot and see what data is being retrieved by your query(s).
Use the view tabular data feature in Report Studio to help troubleshoot and see what data is being retrieved by your query(s).
Use the row number insertable object in Report Studio to provide row counts for troubleshooting purposes.
Use the row number insertable object in Report Studio to provide row counts for troubleshooting purposes.
Use an HTML object to record notes and comments about the report. Make sure that the text is commented.
When using the GUI to get the possible values for a field, Cognos issues a select distinct which scans the entire table and this scan may take a very long time to get all of the unique values.