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Title: Hotfiles in Framework Manager
Post by: johnpenna on 15 Oct 2007 10:07:47 AM

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?? ???

Title: Re: Hotfiles in Framework Manager
Post by: MFGF on 16 Oct 2007 02:28:05 AM

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.

Title: Re: Hotfiles in Framework Manager
Post by: ComplexQry on 23 Oct 2007 09:16:34 AM

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.

Title: Re: Hotfiles in Framework Manager
Post by: johnpenna on 23 Oct 2007 10:57:19 AM

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

Title: Re: Hotfiles in Framework Manager
Post by: COGNOiSe administrator on 23 Oct 2007 12:56:57 PM

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

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