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IBM Cognos 8 Platform => COGNOS 8 => Report Studio => Topic started by: siris_y on 03 Aug 2009 12:43:06 PM

Title: can we avoid xml files to be generated / saved when we save reports to local sys
Post by: siris_y on 03 Aug 2009 12:43:06 PM
I'm saving some reports to a directory on the server.

in the PDF and excel formats. But along with those files we have xml files also generated.

could we avoid these xml files to be saved to same location as the reports saved?
Title: Re: can we avoid xml files to be generated / saved when we save reports to local sys
Post by: armend.shabani on 07 Aug 2009 03:08:38 AM
Hi
You can't tell Cognos to not save XML files.
Cognos saves an _dexc.xml file for each report, and this is a DESCRIPTOR for the report (you can find different information there).
Example, i use xml descriptor to find the report name (as it is like 12343345345345345.mht and 12343345345345345_desc.xml, and with the help of XML file i find the real report name - Sales for the Month)