Interview Questions

How to create users and permissions in cognos?

Users and Permissions can be given in Access manager - Administration.

Individual users can be created using their names or their Ids (if any) in Access manager and then be given permissions.

This tool is loaded when you install Cognos 7.x in your machine.

In content manager--we have one component called cognos process manager, using process manager we can integrate with third party tools like LDAP or NTLM. we cannot create users in reportnet directly. in real time we can use LDAP.


What is the difference between macros and prompt?

Macro is set of instructions to run report.

Prompt is just like a dialog box which will ask user to select/enter the information what he needs.

A MACRO IS RUN TIME PARAMETER WHICH CAN BE PLACED IN ANY PART OF SQL SELECT STATEMENT,WHERE AS PROMPT IS USED TO GIVE CONDITIONS.


What is Cognos Visualizer and Cognos Scripting?

Cognos scripting is like a language, with this we will create macros, Macro is a set of instructions to run a report.

Cognos Visualizer is a tool for creating charts(bar, pie, histogram......) & maps using datasources(datafiles like mdc,iqd,csv,excel etc).


What is query subject?

A query subject is the basic building block in Framework Manager. A query subject is a set of query items that have an inherent relationship.