IBM Cognos Series 7 Impromptu User

Impromptu® is a database reporting tool. You use Impromptu to easily create queries, run them against your relational database, and format the results.

Impromptu User

Use Impromptu to create, view, and distribute reports. You can easily add filters to rows or columns in reports; group and sort information; and use picklists, prompts, and exception highlighting to increase the value of standard reports. Output can be to a variety of formats, including PDF and HTML, or saved as Microsoft® Excel files.

Impromptu Tools

Impromptu includes the following IBM® Cognos® tools:

• Configuration Manager

  Use to configure any IBM® Cognos® Series 7 component or to configure multiple components at once. For example, you can stop all your IBM Cognos Series 7 services simultaneously.

• Access Manager Batch Maintenance

  Lets administrators automate maintenance tasks required to manage security in Access Manager.

• Access Manager Registration Wizard

  Use to register a trusted services plug-in with Access Manager.

• Scheduler

  Use to run reports and macros at specified times.

• IBM CognosScript Editor

  Use to write, compile, and run macros in the IBM CognosScript language. You can create a user interface for your macro applications using the IBM CognosScript Dialog Editor.

• Audit Configuration and Audit File Processor

  Use to enable audits of Impromptu reports and to specify the location and size of the audit file. You can also set options for processing audit data.

• PowerPrompts Developer Studio

  Use to create a PowerPrompts application, which is a series of HTML pages that allow report consumers to select the information they want to see in a report.

• User Defined Functions Software Development Kit (SDK)

  Use to create custom business functions for your reporting environment.

Documentation

A complete PDF documentation set is provided for Impromptu and the related tools.

Quick Tours

Quick Tours serve as online introductions to IBM Cognos products. The Impromptu Quick Tour is available with Impromptu User. If you want to install the Quick Tour, you must do a custom installation and select it.

Samples

Samples provide some representative data that you can use with tutorials and for testing your installation, especially if you do not have your own data created with previous releases.

For more information about samples, see the Installation Testing and Samples Setup Guide.