Save Report to File System - Report Name

[Robl]

Hi,

I have a process that saves the reports to a file system using the scheduled delivery option.

It works perfectly, and for burst reports I have set the burst label to be a concatenation of customer_name and year_month which means that when monthly reports run they have different names each month.

But, I also have some scheduled reports that ARE NOT burst reports, and I want to be able to add the year_month to the report name on these reports too.

The obvious workaround is just to make them burst reports, but only burst a single page.
I'm just wondering if there's a more elegant solution that allows me to add a data item to the report output name.

Thanks.

[cognos810]

Hello Robl,
I think bursting would be the only route available to achieve this from within Cognos.
You can use VBS with WMI and File System Monitoring, to rename your file as soon as it is created and append the create date for the file to its name.

-Cognos810