Cognos BI and Salesforce

As of Cognos BI 10.2 you can report of Salesforce direct without the need for Virtual View Manager:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21614133&myns=swgimgmt&mynp=OCSSEP7J&mync=R

Cognos Proven Practices on Youtube

Check out the Cognos Proven Practices on Youtube, including some good BI report studio tips:

http://www.youtube.com/user/ibmbusinessanalytics

Cognos 10 Redbook

A good resource for anyone considering Cognos 10 is the redbook available here:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247912.pdf

IBM Cognos Solution Implementation Methodology

If you are about to implement a new cognos product or a new project within an existing install then its worth checking out the CSIM roadmaps available:

 http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/services/implementation-roadmaps.html


There are roadmaps for Cognos BI and TM1 available 

Set sort order in tree prompts based on TM1 datasource

Nice little article available here on how to set a customized sort order in hierarchy prompts based off a TM1 datasource in report studio:

https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?mynp=OCSS9RTN&mync=R&uid=swg21457443&myns=swgimgmt

Integrating TM1web with Cognos BI

When you have a distributed architecture for your Cognos BI install and then you want to integrate TM1web into the environment with CAM authentication, you may find you get an error message about a CAF rejection and you cannot access tm1web.

This is due to the internal cognos firewall rules and you need to edit the CAF settings within Cognos Configuration. Normally this just involves adding the tm1 adminhost name into the CAF exception rule.

e.g. If your TM1 server is running on a computer called "TM1WebAppServ", then you would add this to the CAF exception rule

I found these sites helpful in resolving this issue:

http://www.cogknowhow.com/index.php/knowledge-articles/30-cognos-8/305-can-not-add-a-url-in-cognos-connection-to-direct-users-to-other-server-or-website

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21410316