Hi All,
I am beginner to active reports. I need the information of active report benefits and limitations.
Please give your efforts.
Thanks & Regards,
Chandrasekar
Quote from: CHANDRASEKAR on 16 Jun 2014 01:45:42 AM
Hi All,
I am beginner to active reports. I need the information of active report benefits and limitations.
Please give your efforts.
Thanks & Regards,
Chandrasekar
An Active Report is a means of delivering interactivity in a report without having to maintain a connection to your cognos server. This is achieved by including report data in the report output. There are obviously advantages and disadvantages to this. The advantages are that you can use the report remotely, and not have to rely on maintaining a network connection. The disadvantages are that there is a finite amount of data you would want to add in to the report - or else you risk it becoming an unmanageable monster.
Active Reports are best suited to high-level summarised data, and probably no more than (say) 10Mb in total. Otherwise you might have issues with email attachment limitations, mailbox sizes and network transfer speeds.
Cheers!
MF.
Ironsidegroup has nice article about getting started with Active reports
http://www.ironsidegroup.com/2010/12/14/ibm-cognos-10-%E2%80%93-active-reports-is-it-a-solution-for-your-organization/
You can start Active Report development using Cookbook available on IBM Site
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/reporting/active_report/page593.html
For Best Practices using Active reports and limitations refer following links
http://zameersayed.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/active-reports-file-size-limitations/
http://www.ironsidegroup.com/2012/02/07/5-tips-to-building-effective-ibm-cognos-active-reports/
Hi MFGF & Ganesh Kedari,
Thanks for your reply.