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when trying to join a table with lat, long values with Shape file follow below steps .
Add below to the query item.

geography::STPointFromText(‘POINT(‘ + CAST([LONG] AS VARCHAR(20)) + ‘ ‘ + CAST([LAT] AS VARCHAR(20)) + ‘)’, 4326) as loca_geo

join should be Intersects

Join to geometry.

percentage([Counts])
percentage(count (distinct [DataItem]))

Create a calculation by above syntax. Drag that column to cross-tab. You should be getting percentages of summary data.

Topics: Cognos Cross Tab & percent calculation in Total
cognos cross tab how to add percentage

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cognos notification test pass but email doesn’t come

Unable to send emails from Cognos Server but no errors appear in the cogserver.log file
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21339824

CNC-SDS-0408 There are email messages waiting to be sent.

cognos analytics [Validate mail server properties.] [ ERROR ] The mail server cannot be reached.

Cognos Scheduled Jobs Randomly Stuck in ‘Waiting’ State
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21689979

Testing mail server connection: [ERROR] Mail server authentication failed
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21342280

Follow below steps:

select Help → Settings and Performance → Start Performance Recordingfrom the Tableau toolbar.

Then right click on the source in the Data toolbar and select ‘Refresh’. This will force Tableau to re-run the query.

Once the query completes, select Help → Settings and Performance → Stop Performance Recording from the Tableau toolbar.

This should result in a new Tableau window opening with a workbook called ‘Tableau — PerformanceRecording’

Right-click anywhere in the bar next to ‘Executing Query’ and select ‘View data’