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IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio Cookbook, Second Edition

You're reading from   IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio Cookbook, Second Edition Getting the most out of IBM Cognos Report Studio is a breeze with this recipe-packed cookbook. Cherry-pick the ones you want or go through the tutorial step by step – either way you'll end up with some highly impressive reports.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849688208
Length 364 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

IBM Cognos 10 Report Studio Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Report Authoring Basic Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Report Authoring 3. Using JavaScript Files – Tips and Tricks 4. The Report Page – Tips and Tricks 5. Working with XML 6. Writing Printable Reports 7. Working with Dimensional Models 8. Working with Macros 9. Using Report Studio Efficiently 10. Working with Active Reports 11. Charts and New Chart Features 12. More Useful Recipes 13. Best Practices Recommendations and References Index

Enabling a larger worksheet size for Excel 2007


Let's say that you have built a report that primarily is a data extract. It produces more than 65,000 rows. When users run it in Excel 2007, it is spread across multiple sheets though Excel 2007 supports over a billion rows. Let's see how to fix by changing server settings.

Getting ready

You require admin rights for this so you can change service settings.

How to do it...

In this recipe we will see how to enable a larger Excel 2007 worksheet by changing IBM Cognos BI server settings.

  1. Open Cognos Administration from Connection Portal and go to Configuration | Dispatcher and Services.

  2. Click on the dispatcher and it should show you all services.

  3. Go to the Properties pane of Report Service and open Advanced Settings.

  4. Define a new parameter called RSVP.EXCEL.EXCEL_2007_LARGE_WORKSHEET and set its value as TRUE.

  5. Do the same for the Batch report service. Restart the services.

How it works...

By defining this parameter, we enable Cognos to produce large worksheets...

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