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IBM Cognos 8 Platform => COGNOS 8 => Report Studio => Topic started by: AnthonyJ on 15 Mar 2011 04:53:00 PM

Title: Add Timestamp in Document Name via Scheduler
Post by: AnthonyJ on 15 Mar 2011 04:53:00 PM
I'm scheduling a report as excel to be sent through email and would like add a timestamp at the end. I've searched around but couldn't find an answer.

Is it all possible ? Any workarounds if not possible out of the box ?
Title: Re: Add Timestamp in Document Name via Scheduler
Post by: AussiePete2011 on 15 Mar 2011 06:57:28 PM
Hi there

This is an enhancement with IBM.  If you have a support contract you should log a PMR and ask for this to be escalated.
The only way you are going to get this is external to Cognos.

Schedule the report to save to the local drive - there are a few cognoise forum discussions on this recently
Set up a batch script to rename the file - again there are cognoise forums on this
Then the issue here is how to email.
You could use Telnet, or gbmail or if you have ms exchange you could use the client command software

Cheers
Peter B