Bex Query Designer running against a Cognos Cube

Hi
Is it possible to run Bex Query Designer against a Cognos cube ? I know you can do it the other way around - run Cognos against a BW cube. But I can't find anything on creating Bex Query on a Cognos cube.
John

Hi John,
I think that's not possible. I've never seen that, there is no information about it anywhere.
But, why would you like to connect BEx to another tool? As you said, you can connect Cognos to BW (as well as Microstrategy, Business Objects and ohters). And this is because all these tools are better in front end desing (even after BI7, i think BEx reporting tools are awful).
Regards,
Diego

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