HOT TIPS
IBM Cognos Proven Practice: Improving IBM Cognos Report Studio Master Detail Report Performance
This document describes an IBM Cognos Report Studio report design technique that can be used for master-detail style reports running against a relational data source.
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HOT TIP: Allowing User Selection of a Hierarchy in a Report Studio Report
By Michael Vilhauer, Consultant, Brightstar Partners

Allowing users to change a hierarchy used in a Report Studio report while maintaining the drill-up and drill-down capabilities from a DMR or cube data source may seem very difficult to achieve. This article outlines how to achieve this user functionality in both manageable and relatively simple steps using a prompt page and Cognos macros.  
 
For detailed steps for how to create this user on-demand hierarchy maintaining the drill-up and drill down functionality in a report in Cognos 8, click here.

 
HOT TIP: Dynamic Date Dimension in Cognos 10
Date dimensions are in high demand. Nearly every warehouse and data mart has at least one date dimension. They are extremely useful in Cognos reporting - end users frequently want to analyze data by year, quarter, month, etc.
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Simple Adjustments to Increase Performance and Capacity
Article taken from BSP Newsletter 052, April 2011

The question is always asked "How can I improve performance on my Cognos environment?"  Unfortunately the generic answer seems to always be "It Depends..." 
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Hot Tip No. 15
Indexes are critical to good performance. However many people don't understand how indexes work. Here is an introductory article on the basics of indexing.

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