Scheduling the reports in Cognos 8

Cognos 8 architecture differentiates the requests requested by Interative and Non Interactive processes. For Ex: when the user is running the report manually, Report Service will process the reauest received whereas the scheduled report request will be processed by the Batch report Service.

Using Jobs to Schedule Reports

We can use jobs to schedule one or more reports rather keeping the Individual schedule. Jobs can be submitted to run as follows: All at once or in Sequence.

Job and Scheduling Service Settings

All scheduling will be processed by the Job and Scheduling Service. This service is directly related to the Batch report Service which runs the scheduling requests.

Following are the parameters settings which we can set while configuring the Job and Scheduling Service.

Maximum Jobs During Non-Peak Period
The maximum number of jobs during non-peak periods identifies a configurable limit to the number of jobs that can simultaneously execute during the specified non-peak period range.
Maximum Jobs During Peak Period
The maximum number of jobs during peak periods identifies a configurable limit to the number of jobs that can simultaneously execute during the specified peak period range. If an application does not perform scheduled activity during the specified peak period range, this setting is inapplicable.

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Soma