Cognos 11 Report Schedule

[dwsudheer]

Hello,

I am unable to schedule the Cognos 11 reports in any formats except PDF format and it's showing only this format.What would be the possible reason for this.Please find attached snap for the same.Please advise.Thanks

[Cognos_Jan2017]

We use CA 11.0.11.  Click the Report's ellipsis and click Properties.

You should be able to Schedule the Report by filling in your requirements there.

[dougp]

I remember seeing something about this in the documentation.  I'm not implementing it, so I don't remember where it is.  The administrator has the ability to change part of the configuration via Cognos Administration or by modifying an XML file to control what types of outputs, which tools, etc. users (groups?  roles?) have available in different contexts.  You should read the documentation.

One reason I can imagine for doing this:  Some of my users like to use Cognos as an ETL tool.  Cognos is very bad at that -- it's not what it was designed for.  It uses an enormous amount of resources.  One user can disable my entire system.  In order to prevent this, I may want to prohibit my users from scheduling reports to output to Excel or CSV so that the system remains available for the other 6000 users.

[MFGF]

That's one of the best answers I have seen - concise, reasoned and accurate. Not that anything you post ever needs my endorsement, but you're getting it here :)

MF.