CU is now running Cognos 10.2.1 in production. My thanks to UIS/IRM’s Molly Doyle for doing so much to ensure a smooth production upgrade, and I know there are others in UIS who are backing her up, making her look good. Thanks also to OUC’s Sarju Khadka and Ryan Day for testing and troubleshooting.
If you have saved links to Cognos that go to “mod2″, these links will no longer work after this week. You will instead get a (useless) message asking if you want to open or save the mod2_cognos.so file:
[10_2_1] Assuming known issues are resolved, CU plans to upgrade to Cognos version 10.2.1 in just a few days. It is available now for you to test in Cognos QA. The reports should be the same. Cognos Connection, however, gets a makeover with a new color theme and button icons. Cognos Connection is the part of Cognos you interact with when navigating folders and launching reports. This is an incremental “dot version” upgrade from 10.2.0. The significant changes are all back-room improvements. So while it looks different we expect that you’ll be able to continue using Cognos the same. If you find that you have some trouble or uncertainty about this new version we want to know before the production upgrade – leave a comment below.
This is not something requiring action from users right now. I just want you to be aware that it is happening.
CU is preparing to upgrade to Cognos 10.2.1 the weekend of July 25, 2014.
The following three reports migrate to production this week: (1) m-Fin COMPENSATION SUMMARY. Improved prompting. (2) m-Fin PAYROLL TRANSACTIONS. Internal technical adjustments for compatibility with m-Fin COMPENSATION SUMMARY. (3) m-Fin ACCOUNTING SUMMARY. Option for FY direct and indirect.
We've added a speedtype prompt. It works like the single speedtype mode in m-Fin TRIAL BALANCE SUMMARY. Type in a speedtype and hit the enter key. The report runs. The SPEEDTYPE prompt then also appears on the html output page. Use it to run another speedtype when you are ready...
Need a one-line-per-speedtype report that shows total direct expenditures and F-and-A expenditures for the Fiscal Year? We've enhanced m-Fin ACCOUNTING SUMMARY with an EXTRAS option for this. Try it out in Cognos QA. [15-May-2014 Migrated to production]...
