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IBM Cognos Analytics Platform => Cognos Analytics => Reporting => Topic started by: lrjurgen on 28 Jun 2023 03:53:43 PM

Title: Send report only when data present
Post by: lrjurgen on 28 Jun 2023 03:53:43 PM
Is there a simple way to suppress the sending of a report when there is no data?

We have a few reports that should be sent when specific conditions occur in the system we are reporting from, so we have a report scheduled to run hourly that checks for this condition and emails. 99.9% of the time, the report will present with no data, but it still emails out...

Cognos 11.1

For example, report has the following fields:
Sku, description, location, transaction, timestamp

When a receipt is processed to a specific location and there is no inventory for that item elsewhere we need a to know about it.

I have tried to setup bursting for this, but that seems overly complicated for this simple process.
Title: Re: Send report only when data present
Post by: dougp on 28 Jun 2023 06:37:03 PM
Quotesimple process

Predicting if a report will produce 0 results may not be as simple as you think.

This may be a job for Event Studio.
Title: Re: Send report only when data present
Post by: lrjurgen on 29 Jun 2023 07:27:35 AM
Our Cognos environment is provided by our supply chain vendor (and its cloud based), I don't know if we even have event studio...