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How to Schedule a Cognos Report

How to Schedule a Cognos Report

Owned by Durendal Huynh
Sept 19, 2016

 

Procedure

  1. Open IBM Cognos Connection:
    1. Start your Web browser.
    2. In the address bar, type https://bi.oit.uci.edu/ibmcognos/
    3. Log in using your UCINetID
  2. In the IBM Cognos Welcome page, click IBM Cognos content. In the Public Folders tab, navigate to the report.
  3. Locate the report
  4. Create a report view for a daily view of the report:
    1. Under Actions, click the Report View icon Report View icon next to the report.
    2. In the Name box, rename the report.
    3. Under Location, click on Select another location...link to navigate to your own folder, or folder where the report view will be saved
    4. Click Finish.
    A new entry appears in IBM Cognos Connection, with the report view icon, the folder specified in step 4.d
  5. Schedule the report view to run daily:
    1. Click the Schedule icon Schedule icon next to the entry.
    2. Under Frequency, click the By Day tab.
    3. Accept the default time and other defaults.
    4. Click OK.
  6. Check the schedule:
    1. Click My Area Options My Area icon, My Activities and Schedules.
    2. Click Schedules.
    3. In the Filter pane, select Any status and Any priority, and click Apply.

Results

Your report view appears in the list of scheduled reports.  For example:
A screen capture of IBM Cognos Connection showing the report in the list of scheduled reports.