Version controlling
Cognos allows direct connection to certain version controlling software (Visual Source Safe being the most popular) for Framework Manager. However, there is no direct mechanism for reports.
The following methods are seen in different organizations for version controlling of reports:
- Copy the report specification to the clipboard, save it as an XML file, and store it in the version controlling system. This method allows easy comparison to prior versions of the report, and hence is good for code review during any changes. However, it can be tedious. Also, restoring to an older version needs to be done for one report at a time. This also breaks any existing report views defined at the target location.
- Export the whole suite of reports ...
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