Manage Run Activities Cognos 8 BI

Objectives  At the end of this course, you should be able to:  manage current, upcoming and past activities  manage schedules  enable and disable schedules  set queue priority for schedules

Manage Activities  Activities are either run in the background, or they are interactive.  You can view a list of all the activities that are current, past, upcoming on a specific day, or scheduled.  You can also:  see who ran each activity  cancel or suspend an activity  change the priority of an activity

Set Queue Priorities  You can set the queue priority current activities that are in the queue, upcoming activities, and scheduled activities.  There is no impact to changing the priority on a currently running activity. The activity will not automatically be suspended, because another activity in the queue has a higher priority.

Current Activities  Current activities are those that are currently being processed in Cognos 8  You can cancel current activities that have one of the following statuses:  pending  executing  suspended  waiting

Past Activities  Past activities have finished being processed by Cognos 8  If an activity consists of multiple tasks, if at least one task succeeds, the status of the activity is Succeeded. If one task fails, but others have succeeded, a little red “x” appears beside the Succeeded status. View run history details for more information about the error.  When an entry fails, you can resubmit the failed entry with the same options that were specified in the original run.

Upcoming Activities  You can view all activities that are scheduled to run on a specific day.  You can cancel scheduled runs of entries, reschedule entry runs that have been cancelled, and set the priority on the activity.  When you reschedule a cancelled activity, it is set to run at the same time as it was set to run before it was cancelled.

Demo 1 Monitor Run Activities

Manage Schedules  You can view a list of all scheduled activities.  You can:  set properties  run the schedule once  disable and enable scheduled entries  modify the schedule  remove the schedule  Depending on the entry, you may also be able to perform other functions, such as view outputs or event lists.

Demo 2 Login as directory admin. modify properties of previously scheduled report. Change schedule. Set priority.

Summary  At the end of this course, you should be able to:  monitor environment activities (current, past, upcoming)  Use various views to identify the report, job, or application in the queue or being processed.  Filter the view  manage schedules  enable and disable schedules  set queue priority for schedules