Manage Past Activities

Past activities are entries that have finished processing in IBM® Cognos® software.

Each entry is listed by name and shows the request time and the status. You can sort the Request time and Status columns. The bar chart shows the total number of entries, broken down by status. If an entry has failed, a button appears showing the severity of the error.

In IBM Cognos Administration, the user who ran the entry is also listed.

You can filter the entries to display only those you want. You can choose to view a list of activities that occurred over a specified length of time, such as the last four hours or the last day, or you can specify a date or time range. You can filter by status, type, and scope.

In IBM Cognos Administration, you can also filter by the user who ran the entry, the user who owns the entry, and the dispatcher where the activity ran.

You can view the run history View the Run History for Entries.

Procedure

  1. If you are an administrator, from the Launch menu, click IBM Cognos Administration. On the Status tab, click Past Activities.

    If you are a user, in IBM Cognos Connection, in the upper-right corner, click the my area options button My area icon, click My Activities and Schedules, and in the left pane, click Past Activities.

  2. In the Filter section, click the filtering items that you want to use.
    Tip: If you want to use advanced filtering options, click Advanced options. To reset all selections to the default settings, click Reset to default.
  3. If an error occurred when the entry ran, pause over the error button next to the status to see the severity of the error.
  4. Click Apply.

    The list shows the entries that you selected.

  5. To perform an action on an individual entry, click the arrow to the right of the entry and select the action. To perform an action on several entries, click one of the following buttons on the toolbar.

    The following table specifies the actions available for entries and the associated icons:

    Action

    Icon

    Show Details (top right-hand corner)

    Show details icon

    Hide Details (top right-hand corner)

    Hide details icon

Parent topic: Activities Management