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 about performing the tasks.
When you first log on to BMC Decision Support for Server Automation, 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 Report Studio 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 BMC Decision Support for Server Automation, see Viewing-built-in-reports.
For assistance with issues running reports, see Reporting-issues.
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 about accessing it, see Cognos-documentation). For information about creating reports, see Creating-ad-hoc-reports. For information about modifying built-in reports, see Customizing-built-in-reports.
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 Note: You cannot delete built-in reports. | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Creating shortcuts to reports or bookmarking reports | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Running reports Note: Do not confuse saving reports as report views with running, viewing, and saving reports. For more information about troubleshooting the report views issues, see Saving-reports-and-report-views. | IBM Cognos Connection User Guide |
Saving reports as report views Note: Do not confuse saving reports as report views with running, viewing, and saving reports. For more information about troubleshooting the report views issues, see Saving-reports-and-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 by 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: You can also import and export report definitions by using the IBM Cognos Administration. | 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 Decision Support for Server Automation. |
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Modifying the layout of built-in reports or prompts in built-in reports by using the report Layout Library and Query Tables Library included with BMC 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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