or use jobs to schedule multiple entries at
once .
Jobs have their own schedules independent from report schedules.You can schedule Cognos 8 entries to run at a time that is convenient for you. For example, you may want to run reports or agents during off hours when demands on the system are low. Or you may want to run them at a regular weekly or monthly interval.
If you have administrator privileges, you can also schedule tasks that:
maintain your content store
import or export entries from a deployment archive
run jobs
run metrics maintenance
You can schedule entries to run at specified intervals. You can
schedule entries individually or use jobs to schedule multiple entries at
once .
Jobs have their own schedules independent from report schedules.
You can schedule entries to run on the last day of each month .
You can also schedule entries to be triggered by occurrences, such
as database refreshes or emails .
Only one schedule can be associated with each entry. If you require
multiple schedules for a report or agent entry, you can create report
views or
agent views and
then create a schedule for each view.
After you create a schedule, the entry or job runs at the time and date specified. You can then view the scheduled entries and manage them. For more information, see Activities Management.
If an entry that contains prompts is scheduled, you must save
the prompt values or specify default values to
ensure that values exist when the report runs according to the schedule.
In a job, you can specify prompt values for job steps. When an entry runs as part of a job, the prompt values saved in the job definition are used instead of the values saved with the entry. If no values are specified in the job definition, Cognos 8 uses the values saved in the entry.
When you schedule an entry, you may be able to select a run priority from 1 to 5. For example, an entry with priority 1 runs before an entry with priority 5. If there is more than one entry with a specific priority, the one that arrived in the queue first runs first. The default is 3. If you do not have permissions for entry priorities, the priority appears but you can not change it.
When you schedule a job, you can set priority for the whole job only, not for individual entries within a job. However, you can change the priority of individual entries when they are pending in the queue.
The priority of entries in the queue does not affect an entry that is already running. The running entry completes and then the queue priority is checked for the next entry to run.
For more information, see Manage Entry Run Priority.
Cognos 8 keeps history information each time a scheduled entry runs. You can use the run history for an entry to see the times at which it ran and whether the it ran successfully . For more information, see View the Run History for Entries.
