Troubleshooting
Problem
Express 10.1 includes several key components from other Cognos products. However, Express does not include every feature of these Cognos products, even though they may be described in the documentation.
Resolving The Problem
Features of other IBM Cognos products that are unsupported in Express 10.1
Express 10.1 includes several key components from other Cognos products. However, Express does not include every feature of these Cognos products, even though they may be described in the documentation.
Express® bundles several features and components that are used in the following IBM® Cognos® products:
- IBM Cognos Business Intelligence version 10.1.1
- IBM Cognos TM1® version 10.1
- IBM Cognos Executive Viewer version 10.1
- IBM Cognos Insight version 10.1
Some IBM Cognos product features and components are intentionally excluded from Express because they are not appropriate for the medium-sized companies that typically use Express.
Important: The Express documentation includes some information that applies to other Cognos products but not to Express.
The following tables identify other IBM Cognos product components and features that are not supported in Express 10.1.
Table 1. Cognos BI 10.1 features that are not supported in Express 10.1
Cognos BI 10.1.1 component or feature | Supported in Express | Restrictions |
| Metric Reports | No | |
| Metric Designer | No | |
| Metric Studio | No | |
| Lifecycle Manager Application | No | |
| Lifecycle Manager Client | No | |
| Event Studio | No | |
| Analysis Studio | No | |
| Real Time Monitoring - Dashboard | No | |
| Real Time Monitoring - Workbench | No | |
| Business Insight | Partially | Search is not available in the Content tab |
| Statistics (Report Studio add-on) | No | |
| Mobile | Partially | Support for iPad only |
| Cognos for MS Office | No | |
| Cognos Analysis for MS Excel (Cafe) | No | |
| PowerPlay Studio | No | |
| PowerPlay Client | No | |
| Data Manager Engine | No | |
| Data Manager Network | No | |
| Data Manager Designer | No | |
| Data Movement Services | No | |
| Connector for SAP R/3 | No | |
| Access to Linus on System Z SW | No | |
| SDK | No | |
| Search Component | No | |
| Dynamic Query Analyzer | Partially | Not bundled – available on request |
| Framework Manager | Partially | Component specific limitations apply |
| Transformer | No | |
| Virtual View Manager | No | |
| Cognos Connection | Partially | No full text search; no My Inbox; no My Watch Items |
| Human Task Services | No | |
| Business Viewpoint | No | |
| Content Store | Partially | Informix only (bundled) |
Table 2. TM1 10.1 features that are not supported in Express 10.1
TM1 10.1 component or feature | Supported in Express | Restrictions |
| TM1 Server | Partially | Single instance (bundled) - additional instances published through Cognos Insight allowed; CAM security (mode 5) only; no replication |
| Architect | Partially | No local server |
| Turbo-Integrator | Partially | No connection to SAP, package connector |
| Perspectives (Add-in for MS Excel) | Partially | No local server |
| Operations Console | No |
Table 3. Executive Viewer 10.1 features that are not supported in Express 10.1
Executive Viewer 10.1 component or feature | Supported in Express | Restrictions |
| Server | Partially | ICAS (TM1) connectivity only; CAM security only; Content Store repository only; no Process Distribution |
Table 4. Cognos Insight 10.1 features that are not supported in Express 10.1
Cognos Insight 10.1 component or feature | Supported in Express | Restrictions |
| Cognos Insight | Partially | Entitlement restrictions |
Table 5. Support level of miscellaneous features in Express 10.1
Feature | Supported in Express | Restrictions |
| Deployment | Yes | Windows only; single machine only; no interoperability or co-existence with TM1, BI or other Express deployments |
| Application server | Yes | Tomcat only (bundled) |
| Number of CPUs | Yes | Maximum 32 |
| Number of users | Yes | Maximum 100 |
| RDBMS support | Yes | DB2, Informix, Oracle, SQL Server and Sybase only |
| OLAP support | Yes | ICAS (TM1) only |
| Security Provider | Yes | Windows Active Directory only |
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10 November 2022
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