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title: Cognos Series 7 Documentation
description: DocuVisn - Documentation for your Cognos Series 7 environment. Easily document Impromptu catalogs and reports and more.
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# Cognos Series 7 Documentation with DocuVisn

## End-to-end documentation for your IBM Cognos Series 7 environment.

### Impromptu Catalogs

- All information about the catalog, including data sources for all catalog items, file name, description, database information, folder links and hierarchy, join definitions, user classes, and more at your fingertips
- Fast and easy navigation of folder hierarchy
- All references to alias tables are maintained
- Calculations have database references, not folder references
- Validate user class permissions and governors
- Shows which reports use which catalogs

### Impromptu Reports

- Key report info: including file name, catalog used, database information, query items, and report items
- Identifies data columns associated with report items and calculations
- Identifies the source folder path for query items and source catalog used
- All catalog join definitions are shown for easy analysis

### PowerPlay Cubes and Reports

- Full documentation of PowerPlay cubes
- Identifies all attributes and data sources for dimensions and measures
- Fully documents PowerPlay client reports (.ppx and .ppr)

### More

- Documents the entire Upfront Portal
- Fully documents all security settings
- Versioning and compare function
- Full search capability

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