Dynamically change pdf export of report name in Cognos 10.2.1

[Seveman]

Hi,

I have a report called "Sales". This report is run once a month by a scheduled job and sent by email in PDF format. My users want to have the month of the data to be shown in the filename, for example "Sales_201901" for the January execution "Sales_201902" for february and so on.

I've looked all over to see how can I do that and so far I've seen no option to do that. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

[Francis aka khayman]

you can't per se.

you can however save the report to a folder and run a batch file to change the filename... research on cm.outputscript

not sure if you can then email the report... you might have to ask users to copy it from that folder.

[CognosPaul]

There is a way, but it's a bit complicated, and it involves using the Browser That Shall Not Be Named (i.e. IE).

Basically you need to set up the report as a burst, and use the month key as the label.

Once the burst is set up, use the instructions from IBM here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21966700