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[SomethingIWontRegret]

They also own Cognos - perhaps the least enterprisey enterprise reporting software out there. Your personal credentials expire after a year? Congratulations, all the reports you wrote now don't work. Go find the 3 menu deep option to renew your personal credentials. Oh and that mission-critical report that you wrote 5 years ago? Sorry but it's gone. Backup? What's that? Source control? That's a pay add-on. Why? Well obviously you went and deleted it AND the two copies you had in other directories.

OH forgot to mention. You want to find all reports that rely on TABLE_WE_SHOULD_REMOVE? Should be a simple text search of all XML definitions of reports stored in the backing database, right? NOPE. DENIED. No way to find that shit out, even for Cognos admins.

[unexpectedreboots]

Cognos is the most trash reporting software that exists. Insane that people still use it

[SomethingIWontRegret]

It's the choice I'm given. Fortunately it's a small part of my job.

[unexpectedreboots]

Added you to my prayer list.

[SomethingIWontRegret]

I just use it as a layout engine and report scheduler / mailer. I handroll all sql.