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Update the Default Action for Multiple Cognos Reports

MotioPI Pro provides a quick and easy way to mass update the Default Action for a set of Cognos reports. First – let’s revisit the “Default Action” for a Cognos Report. This determines […]

Celebrating 13 Years of Motio

Today Motio celebrates its 13th anniversary.   For the past thirteen years, Motio has been a home for software professionals who are passionate about the art of software development. Our mission […]

4 Common Cognos Version Control Scenarios

MotioCI proactively versions all modifications in a Cognos environment. This includes changes made in the authoring studios and administration settings. Today we’ll walk through some of the basic concepts of MotioCI version […]

Mass Update Cognos using Search and Replace

Have you ever needed to update an image or change the footer text on hundreds of reports? Have you ever refactored your framework model and needed to change the query […]

Find Schedules Associated with Cognos Reports

MotioPI gives you the ability to search for schedules associated with reports, jobs, report views, and query objects in Cognos. Select the “Schedule Tab” from the panel column in MotioPI. […]

Cognos Validation – Batch Validation of Cognos Reports

As a Cognos modeler I’m sure many of you have had this experience: After your latest round of model updates, you publish a new version of a package from Framework […]

Log In to MotioPI

The first time you log in to MotioPI, you will notice a dispatcher pre-filled in the “Cognos Dispatcher” text box. This is only an example, you will need to enter […]

Document Cognos User Security

Using MotioPI’s User Access panel you can quickly and easily identify (and export) security information on IBM Cognos users. The readily available information includes: The user’s access levels to specific […]

Locate Cognos Schedule Recipients

This blog entry will demonstrate how to use the MotioPI schedule panel to quickly find all schedules which deliver Cognos outputs to a particular recipient. The PI schedule panel lets you query […]

Setting up your Java environment for MotioPI

The following blog contains information pertaining to MotioPI version 2.8 and earlier. We suggest you launch the most current version of MotioPI. Go here to register for the latest version. MotioPI requires […]

Recover Deleted Content In Cognos

Recovering deleted Cognos content usually means getting your DBAs involved to do a database restore. But more often than not, this means losing even more content, especially on heavily used […]

Web Portal Integration with IBM Cognos Mashup Service

As a custom solutions shop that deals with IBM Cognos on a daily basis, one of the problems that comes up frequently is the integration of a specific report into […]

Cognos Mashup Services vs. Cognos SDK

Demystify the differences between the IBM Cognos SDK and Mashup Service. If you are facing a custom solution centering around your IBM Cognos BI, then this article will help align […]

Cognos Mashup Services Boot Camp – Introduction

This week we will be taking a look at the fundamentals of the Cognos Mashup Service.  We’ll break it down into its component parts in order to see how it […]