General Trigger Question

[damienm]

I am new to Cognos and was just wondering how people in general trigger their reports to run and email. Basically I work in a AS400/JDE environment which Cognos hangs off, the problem we have with scheduling is that a number of our reports cannot run unable a exact/table in JDE has been updated, the timing of the update depends on the user and will occur at all different times, ideally I am thinking of setting up a table with a Y flag to indicate table updated so run the report, however it then needs to be changed once cognos report runs, does anyone use the same approach or have something better?

[Rocks]

you could use the trigger functionality, and submit a batch file call at the end of your table builds. 

we do this today , once our ETLs are completed, we send a command through SSH to a wintel box, that executes a batch file with the cognos trigger.bat fuctionality.