Naming data containers (lists, crosstabs, and charts) for use in Cognos Workspace

With IBM Cognos v10, there is a new tool introduced called IBM Cognos Workspace—Cognos Business Insight in Version 10.1. It is meant for end users to build their own dashboards by pulling required objects from prebuilt Report Studio reports.

This is great for end users because instead of running individual reports, they can bring together required contents from multiple reports (and hence multiple sources) onto their own dashboard and look them as and when required in one go. Also, each user can build their own dashboard without necessarily being trained on report development. All the report development can be done centrally, and end users can pull together their required objects as per individual demand.

Though the Workspace tool is not covered in this book, we will see a best practice when building Report Studio reports for use in Workspace.

Getting ready

Start a new report in Report Studio.

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