Active report limitations

[Chandrasekar]

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

[MFGF]

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.

[Ganesh Kedari]

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/

[Chandrasekar]

Hi MFGF &  Ganesh Kedari,

Thanks for your reply.