Find How Many Times a Field is Used in "X" Reports

[dmhackett8]

Hello,

I'm wondering if there's a way to search all created reports for use of a specific field. For example, someone asks me if changing "x" field will affect any reports I've made. I've made MANY reports and can't remember all of them that reference a specific field.

Any easy way to check this?

Thanks,

Dave

[bdbits]

If you have access to Framework Manager and the model for your package, you can do that quite easily.

[raj_aries81]

Open Framework Manager and under Tools-->Find Report Dependencies gives you the list of reports impacted. If you are building a new Framework Model, I would recommend to use Durable Models feature.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/page60.html


Thanks & Regards
Raj