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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 18, 2020

Scheduling reports on a 4/4/5 or 4/5/4 week period basis in Cognos Analytics

We need the ability to schedule reports/ report views & jobs etc. to run a 4/4/5 week period basis, so for example to schedule a report to start on say January 1st 2021 then every 4 weeks, then again in 4 weeks, and then in 5 weeks time, and repeating so on.

We have researched this, and forums mention using Event Studio, but that is not ideal as we would prefer our user community to use the Cognos Analytics UI for all reporting and scheduling.

We already have reports scheduled by trigger, but we have hundreds of users who need the ability to schedule reports on a timed basis, but without having to worry about trigger names.

For example people may want reports to run at the beginning/middle/end of the accounting period, then every 4 weeks, 4 weeks and 5 weeks.

I would imagine a lot of your customers have a similar issue of trying to schedule reports based on an accounting calendar.

Needed by Date Dec 21, 2020