Cognos reports and local file system

One of the issues which we faced during my new assignment was to store the report output on local computer’s file system. Till date we were just storing the output to only content store. So for us it was not the major task to maintain the report output. But later on as requirement changed we have had to come up with the solution.

After doing lots of analysis and research, I came up with following solution and that works guys!!!

1) open Cognos configuration on the server.
2) Edit global parameters
3) Go to general tab and give appropriate path to file system
4) Save the settings and then restart the services
5) Then go to Cognos connection and open dispatcher and services.



6) Click on define file system option

7) specify the folders and subfolders if required

8) select a report to store the output to local file system and provide appropriate parameters

9) And run the report in background.

10) Checkout the output in respective file folder.


this is just a draft version... i m yet to prepare complete document.....

comments are accepted.

Cheers!!!!
C1PH3R