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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 18, 2021

Improve data set adding possibility to change its connection

We have installed Cognos 11.1.7 FP2 and are having some issues with data sets on our Cognos environment:

- data set created and refreshed based on a certain connection used in data source with multiple connections, can not be changed to point to another connection from the same data source.

Steps taken to reproduce issue (using a sample connection):

1. Log in with System Administrator on a Cognos environment

2. Create GoSales data source with 2 connections, name connections as follows: GoSales-1 and GoSales-2 (for this example, you can duplicate one connection and just rename it)

3. Create a package in Framework Manager based on GoSales (choose one table and publish it in Cognos Analytics)

4. In Cognos Analytics, create a data set based on the package created at point 3 (choose GoSales-1 as the connection)

5. Refresh data set created at point 4.

6. As we would need to be able to refresh the data set based on GoSales-2 data, as well, try changing reference for the data set to point to GoSales-2 connection instead of GoSales-1. Is that possible? We haven't found the option to change it from the data set.

As a workaround for point 6, we have found that we can temporarily disable GoSales-1 connection in order to be able to refresh data set based on GoSales-2.

We opened TS005241747, but the response is that there is currently no other solution.

Needed by Date Apr 1, 2021