Hotfiles in Framework Manager

[johnpenna]

Has anyone experience in Hotfiles with Cognos 8. Apparently there not supported.

I have migrated a number of catalogues with hotfiles from impromptu to Cognos 8 using the latest migration tools.

Cognos tell me Hotfiles are not supported in Cognos 8 framework manager.

My understanding is that it is just a link to a csv file or such that holds data..Anybody now how to fix the hotfiles to another method??  ???

[MFGF]

Hotfiles are essentially offline data stores, designed to get around Impromptu's inability to connect to more than one logical database.  Cognos 8 does not have this limitation, but does not support hotfiles - throw your hotfiles away and point Cognos 8 at the data sources from which the data was originally gathered for inclusion in the hotfiles.

Regards,

MF.

[ComplexQry]

You need to check out Composite Information Server, that comes packaged with Cognos 8.  It basically serves the same purpose and supposedly does it much better.

[johnpenna]

Thanks MF explained in a non technical way...Great many thanks. I will Try this.

[COGNOiSe administrator]

Theres is also ODBC for TEXT/CSV ...  ;D