You can specify advanced run options for a report
for the current run.
The advanced run options for a
report include the following:
The report runs in the background if you run the report later.
For this type of run select multiple report formats or languages,
select to save, print or email the report, send the report to your
mobile device, or burst the report. If you set your preferences to
show a summary of the run options Personalize the Portal, the
summary appears whenever the report is not run interactively. When
done, the output versions button appears next to the report on the Actions toolbar.
Default
options are set by the report author. You can change default run options
for reports Set Default Report Options.
If
you choose to save, print, or send the report by email, you can choose
multiple formats. If you choose to run the report later, the delivery
option is automatically changed to save. For more information on saving
report output, see Save Report Output.
You
must have execute permissions for the report you are attempting to
run. You must have read and traverse permissions for the folder that
contains the report. You need the appropriate permissions to set advanced
run options.
To run reports in the delimited text (CSV), PDF, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
(XLS), or XML output formats, you require the generate output capability
for the specific format. For more information, see Report formats.
Procedure
- In IBM Cognos Connection, for the report that you
want to run, click the Run with options button on
the Actions toolbar.
- Click Advanced options.
- Under Time and mode, click Run
in the background, and then click Now or Later.
If you specify Later, set a date and time for
the report to run.
- Under Format, click the formats
you want for the report output.
- Under Accessibility, select Enable
accessibility support to create accessible report output.
- If you want to select a different or additional languages
for the report, under Languages, click Select
the languages and use the arrow keys to move the available
languages to the Selected languages box and
click OK.
Tip: To select
multiple languages, use the Ctrl key or use the Shift key.
- Under Delivery, choose the delivery
method that you want:
- If you schedule a report for a future time, select multiple formats
or languages, or burst the report. You cannot view the report now.
Select one of the other delivery methods.
- If you choose to print, click Select a printer.
Click the button next to the printer you want to use and click OK.
Or, if the printer is not listed, you can type the printer information.
- If you choose to save using report view, you can change the name
or destination folder of the report view. Click Edit the
save as options, make the changes and click OK.
- If you choose to email the report, proceed to the next step.
Tip: If you have administrator privileges
and want to set up the printer for future use, click New
printer. You must type the network address of the printer
by using the format \\server_name\printer_name for
a network printer on a Microsoft Windows operating system installation
and printer_name for a UNIX operating system installation or for a
local printer.
- If you choose to send the report to your mobile device, enter
your Mobile device ID.
- If you select Send the report by email,
click Edit the email options and set the following
options:
- To display the blind copy field, click Show Bcc.
- To choose IBM Cognos Business Intelligence recipients, click Select
the recipients. Select the check box for the names you
want to include, and click To, Cc (copy),
or Bcc (blind copy). The entries that you select
are listed under Selected entries.
Tip: To remove names from
Selected entries,
select the check box for a name and click
Remove.
To select all entries in the list, select the check box for the list.To
search, click
Search. In the
Search
string box, type the phrase you want to search for. For
advanced search features, click
Edit. For more
information, see
Searching for entries using name, description, and name or description.
When
you are done, click OK.
- To send the email to other recipients, in the To:, Cc,
or Bcc boxes, type the email addresses separated
by semicolons (;).
Tip: If you logged on, your name
automatically appears in the To list box.
- Under Subject, type the subject of the
email.
- Under Body, type a message to be included
in the email.
By default, the body of the email is in HTML format,
which provides advanced editing features such as font type and size,
text color, text formatting and justification, numbers and bullets,
indentation, and tables. To use plain text, click Change
to plain text.
Important: To insert HTML
format from an external source, you must view the text in a Web browser,
and then copy and paste the rendered HTML into the e-mail body. If
HTML text is manually typed in the body of the e-mail, the markup
is treated as plain text. For security reasons, the email options
dialog box accepts a limited set of HTML elements and attributes.
If your pasted HTML is not accepted by the validation schema you might
receive the following error message: The "VALIDATE" transform
instruction could not validate the given XML content.
- To include a hyperlink to the report, select the Include
a link to the report check box. To include the report
as an attachment, select the Attach the report check
box.
- Click OK.
You can
prevent users from including attachments. For more information, see Disable Report Attachments in Email Messages.
- Under Bursting, select the Burst
the report check box to specify whether the report should
be bursted. This option is available only if the report
author defined burst options for the report in IBM Cognos Report
Studio.
If needed, you can change any of the following options that
control the internal execution of burst reports on the server.
- Run in parallel
The burst reports are
broken into segments and the different report segments are executed
in a series of parallel processes. This type of processing uses a
larger percentage of the system capacity and the burst report outputs
are produced much faster. By default, this way of bursting reports
is enabled and represented by the value of Default.
If you set this property to Disabled, burst
reports run sequentially in one process, which takes more time.
- Use query prefetching
This option applies
to dynamic query mode only. When this option is enabled, the dynamic
query mode packages can prefetch burst report queries when the burst
report outputs are rendered. As a result, the burst report outputs
are produced much faster because the queries run in parallel with
the report rendering. By default, this way of bursting reports is
disabled and represented by the value of Default.
- Maximum key limit
Represents a positive
integer that specifies the maximum number of burst keys for each distributed
report segment. Depending on the data source type, it might be necessary
to set this limit so that complex SQL clauses cannot be generated.
The default is 1000. The value of 0 allows for unlimited number of
keys. This option is used only when the Run in parallel option
is enabled.
For information about globally changing
the default burst reports processing options, see Changing the default processing of burst reports.
Tip: If a burst report contains a drill-through link to another
report and the report is distributed by email, select the Include
a link to the report check box in step 8. Otherwise, if
you include the report in the body of the email, the drill-through
links in the burst report will not work.
- If you want to be prompted for values to filter the data
in the report, under Prompt Values, select
the Prompt for values check box.
If
you run the report later, the prompt values you provide are saved
and used when the report runs.
Tip: You are prompted
for values only if the report specification or model includes prompts
or if you have access to multiple data source connections or signons,
even if the Prompt for values check box is
selected.
- Click Run.