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BLOBs/CLOBs in Cognos

Started by Kanag, 27 May 2011 01:17:29 AM

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Kanag

Hi Guys,
             We have word,excel files stored as CLOBs/BLOBs in Oracle database..,

Is there any way , I can pull those files from DB to Cognos reports??

Any help on this is much appreciated!

Regards,
KR

Kanag

Hi Guys,
            Any help on this is much appreciated! Thanks!

Regards,
KR

blom0344

Don't think so. My 2 cents would be to store the Office files on the server as files and use the database to store the link. That way you can create a report containing links to the various office files

Kanag

Hi blom0344,
                      Thanks a lot for the reply!

I am going in ur way and came up with few steps to do the same. Would appreciate if u can validate and let me know..,

STEPS:

* Extracting the files ( in my case, MS Word,Excel files) from DB which are stored as BLOBs and CLOBs

* Storing those extracted files in a Microsoft Sharepoint

* Sharepoint link would be a column in a DB table

* Import the table in FM and pull the column in to the report and make it as a HYPERLINK

* Whenever the Hyperlink is clicked, it would be routed to the Sharepoint portal

Hope above steps would work :)

Regards,
KR