Configure content archival
You must configure your environment for content archival. For the configuration changes to take effect you must stop and start your IBM® Cognos® services.
- Creating a file location for a file system repository
To archive reports or report specifications to an IBM Cognos content archival file system repository, you must create an alias root that points to a file location on a local drive or network share. - Importing custom classes definitions and properties into IBM FileNet Content Manager
To use IBM Cognos content archival, you must import a set of custom classes and properties files into IBM FileNet® Content Manager. - Importing custom classes definitions and properties into IBM Content Manager 8
To use IBM Cognos content archival with IBM Content Manager 8, you must import a set of custom classes and properties files. You must also update the CMIS configuration file with the IBM Cognos folder types. - Specifying an available time to run the archival process
To maintain high system performance during peak hours, you can configure a blackout period to specify when the archive or delete tasks run. - Specifying thread execution time
You can use threads to schedule operating system processing time. - Archiving selected formats of report outputs
You can limit archiving to limit archiving to specific output formats. By default outputs of any given format, including PDF, XML, HTML and Excel, are archived. - Specifying that report specifications are not archived
By default, report specification output is archived. Report specifications describe how data was generated within a report.
Parent topic: IBM Cognos content archival