How to create a job for multiple reports simultaneously in Cognos Analytics 11.

Answer

Steps on how to create a job using multiple reports are as follows:

1. Login to the Cognos ‘Welcome’ dashboard.
2. Under the ‘Manage’ tab in the bottom-left corner, click ‘New job…’.
3. Provide a name for the job such as ‘Test’ and choose where you want to locate the job. For example, select ‘Select My Folders’ to save it in ‘My content’ and click ‘Next’.
4. Click ‘Add…’ to add in the reports you want to add to the job.
5. Tick the boxes against all the reports you want to add and select the arrow button to confirm your selection before clicking ‘OK’.
6. If you want to add pre-defined prompts to any report which uses prompting, click the pencil icon against ‘Default’ under ‘Options and prompt values’. There is the option to ‘Override the default prompt values’ by ticking the box and clicking ‘Set…’ to determine which values you want to use before clicking ‘OK’.
7. Click ‘Next’ and determine which action you want to take for the job. For example, select ‘Save and run once’ to run the job once for all reports before clicking ‘Finish’.
8. Provide a time when you want to run the job before choosing ‘Run’ and click ‘OK’ to confirm.
9. Browse under ‘My content’ to view your newly created job and its properties.