View the Run History for Entries

Sometimes entries are scheduled to run in the background, without anyone waiting to view them. This includes scheduled entries, entries that are run once and saved, and interactive entries that are saved or mailed. Interactive entries do not have run histories.

Cognos 8 keeps history information each time an entry runs in the background. The run history for an entry includes information such as the request time, start time, completion time, and whether the report ran successfully.

You can look at a more detailed run history for the entry, which includes general, error, and warning messages related to the entry and any actions you can take. If there is email associated with the entry, the status of the email delivery is included.

Some types of entries display additional information in the detailed run history page:

• For reports, a report output version is kept each time a report is run according to a schedule. You can view the report output version from the detailed run history.

• For jobs, you can view a list of job steps and see a detailed run history for each one. You can also see the parts of the job that have not yet completed. If the entry is part of a parent entry, you can view the parent entry that initiated the run.

• For deployment export and import entries, you can view the public folders content.

  You may see the following message: Only progress information is currently available. The information will be updated following the completion of the parent activity.

  This means that the deployment has completed but the parent activity is still running. Once the final completion information is obtained from the Content Manager, the message no longer appears.

• For data movement, you can view nodes that were executed as part of a data movement entry. For more information about nodes, see the Data Manager User Guide.

You can rerun failed entries from the detailed run history page. You can view a list of related runs that are part of the rerun series and see a detailed run history for each one. You can specify how many run history occurrences to keep or for how long to keep them .

Steps in Cognos Connection

1. Start Cognos Connection.

2. In the upper-right corner, click the my area button , and click My Activities and Schedules.

3. Click Schedules or Past Activities.

4. Next to the entry, click the arrow and then click View run history .

5. If you want, select the Status of entries that you want to view.

   A list of selected entries appears.

6. If you want to view the run history details, in the Actions column, click the view run history details button  next to the entry you want. Then, if you want, from the Severity list, select the severity of the entries.

7. If there is a report output version, in the Actions column, click the view outputs button  for the entry you want. Then, from the Versions list, click the version you want. To delete a version, click Manage versions click the check box for the version, and then click Delete.

Steps in Cognos Administration

1. Start Cognos Connection.

2. In the upper-right corner, click Launch, Cognos Administration.

3. Click the Status tab, and then click Schedules or Past Activities.

4. Next to the entry, click the arrow and then click View run history.

5. If you want, from the Status list, click the status of entries that you want to view.

   A list of selected entries appears.

6. If you want to view the run history details, in the Actions column, click the view run history details button  next to the entry you want. Then, if you want, from the Severity list, select the severity of the entries.

7. If there is a report output version, in the Actions column, click the view outputs button  next to the entry you want. Then, from the Versions list, click the version you want. To view the version in Cognos Viewer, click the version you want to view. To delete a version, click Manage versions, click the check box for the version, and then click Delete.

8. If there is a log file associated with the entry and you want to view it, click the view the log file button.

9. If you want to view messages, click an item with a link in the Messages column.

   Tip: Messages are nested. There may be child messages within child messages. If a message is displayed as a link, you can continue to drill down through the child messages.