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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Cognos Administration => Topic started by: sunosoft on 26 Mar 2014 06:35:45 AM

Title: System File location
Post by: sunosoft on 26 Mar 2014 06:35:45 AM
Hi All,

Just wanted to confimr once that can we configure two different file system location to save report output outside of content store. ?

We have already one system location path set which is being used to save report outputs of one of applicaiton.

And we received similar request for different application and system path on which user wantes reports is also different.


Is it poosible to configure two different locations?

I tried to do that by using separator between two locations as ; and , but it did not work. I am getting error like invalid system path.
Title: Re: System File location
Post by: adam_mc on 27 Mar 2014 08:54:55 AM
From what I understand, you can only have one root location to save to.
However, you can have multiple folders within that same location.

See: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21342666#ibm-content

After the reports are run, we then have batch/script processing that, where necessary, "cleans up" and moves the output to alternate locations.

We have to run a clean-up version as Cognos appends the locale "-en-us" to the end of the file name and also produces an unneeded .xml file (both annoying) in the same default location.  If anyone knows of a way to prevent Cognos from doing this, that would be great!

Hope this helps!
Adam.