Managing reports using IBM Cognos
This topic lists some of the main tasks that you can perform on built-in and ad hoc reports and provides references to documentation for detailed instructions on performing the tasks.
When you first log on to
, several built-in reports are available for your use. These reports provide a wide-range of information about your server environment. You can change the filter settings and schedules of a report to meet your needs. You cannot modify built-in reports unless you installed the add-on package; however, you can create new reports that are customized to deliver information that is of interest to your organization.For information about the built-in reports that are included with
, see Data collection and reports.For assistance with issues running reports, see Troubleshooting-reports-Report-Studio-or-the-Report-Administration-Utility.
Your role must have the appropriate permission to perform some of these tasks. This list is a subset of all of the report-related tasks; for information about using reports, consult the following documentation (IBM Cognos documentation is available from the Help menu; for instructions on accessing it, see Additional-IBM-Cognos-documentation). For information about creating reports or modifying custom reports, see the BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Server Automation User Guide: Report Authoring at PDFs.
The following table lists the main tasks and references to documentation.
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Creating, removing, and rearranging folders, pages, and tabs | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Organizing your report definitions | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Searching for reports | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Moving, copying, renaming, or deleting reports | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Creating shortcuts to reports or bookmarking reports | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Running reports | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Saving reports as report views | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Viewing reports in PDF, HTML, Excel, or XML format | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Viewing report output versions | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Specifying default report run options, including the default behavior when a report is selected (viewing the results of the most recent report run is the default setting), setting the default report format and language, or specifying the default prompt values. | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Setting options for the current report run, including specifying the filter prompts, report format and language, and delivery method | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Specifying advanced report run options, such as the time reports should run, multiple output formats for reports running at a later time, one or more output formats and languages, one or more delivery methods, prompts for values, and to burst reports | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Modifying report properties, including the report language and name, the number of run histories and report output versions to keep, or the associated packages | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Saving report results to the reports repository, emailing, printing, or bursting report results | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Scheduling reports | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Managing scheduled reports using the Schedule Management tool, including viewing the status of scheduled runs, modifying and canceling schedules, stopping running reports, or running a scheduled report | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Saving scheduled reports |
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Importing report definitions from files or exporting report definitions to files (using the copy to or paste from clipboard) Note that you can also import and export report definitions using the Report Administration Utility (see Working-with-the-Report-Administration-Utility). | IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Report Studio Professional Authoring User Guide |
Editing report definitions To edit built-in reports, you must use Report Studio, an add-on to BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Server Automation. |
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Modifying the layout of built-in reports or prompts in built-in reports using the report Layout Library and Query Tables Library included with BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Server Automation | IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Report Studio Professional Authoring User Guide |
Working with existing reports created in Report Studio to perform tasks such as opening reports locally, managing changes to the package, and customizing reports using conditions | IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Report Studio Professional Authoring User Guide |
Troubleshooting your reports |
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