Monitoring Cognos Jobs

As Cognos tasks run as pre-scheduled or event-based jobs, you can monitor the jobs as you would any other type of job in TA using the Job Details dialog. You can also use Business Views to monitor job activity and view when the jobs are active.

To monitor job activity:

1. Click Operations > Job Activity on the Navigation pane to display the Job Activity pane.

2. Right-click to choose a job and choose Details from the context menu.

   The Job Details dialog appears. The Status page displays by default. You can view the status of the job, the start and end time, how long it ran, and how it was scheduled.

3. Click the Output tab to view a task summary after the job completes.

   If running a pre-existing job, this is an example of the output in full:

   Job: Execute Daily Reports
   
   Search Path: /content/folder[@name='Saved Jobs']
   
   Parameters
   
   P_Year={2007}[all].[2007] P_Quarter={Q1}[all].[2007].[20071],{Q2}[all].[2007].[20072]
   
   Event ID: 0A0A593201424189011EE12EA5CD80240011efb6358ec
   
   Submitted: 01/21 14:50:38:700
   
   Started: 01/21 14:50:38:967
   
   Completed: 01/21 15:17:50:047 Status: Succeeded
   
   Job Steps
   
   Step: Employee Training by Year
   
   Folder: /content/package[@name='GO Data Warehouse (analysis)']/folder[@name='Report Studio Report Samples']/report[@name='Employee Training by Year']
   
   Event ID: 0A0A593201424189011EE12EA5CD80250011efb635e8a
   
   Submitted: 01/21 14:50:40:137
   
   Started: 01/21 14:50:40:857
   
   Completed: 01/21 14:51:00:043 Status: Succeeded
   
   Messages
   
   01/21 14:50:58:120 (Info): CNC-SDS-0408 There are email messages waiting to be sent. 01/21 14:50:59:573 (Info): CNC-SDS-0409 The email messages were sent to 1 recipients.
   
   Step: Employee expenses (report)
   
   Folder: /content/package[@name='GO Data Warehouse (query)']/folder[@name='Report Studio Report Samples']/report[@name='Employee expenses (report)']
   
   Event ID: 0A0A593201424189011EE12EA5CD80260011efb635ea9
   
   Submitted: 01/21 14:50:40:183
   
   Started: 01/21 14:51:00:497
   
   Completed: 01/21 15:17:49:997 Status: Succeeded
   
   Messages
   
   15:17:47:577 (Info): CNC-SDS-0408 There are email messages waiting to be sent.
   
   01/21 14:50:59:573 (Info): CNC-SDS-0409 The email messages were sent to 1 recipients.
   
   Step: Employee expenses (report)
   
   Folder: /content/package[@name='GO Data Warehouse (query)']/folder[@name='Report Studio Report Samples']/report[@name='Employee expenses (report)']
   
   Event ID: 0A0A593201424189011EE12EA5CD80260011efb635ea9
   
   Submitted: 01/21 14:50:40:183
   
   Started: 01/21 14:51:00:497
   
   Completed: 01/21 15:17:49:997 
   
   Status: Succeeded
   
   Messages
   
   15:17:47:577 (Info): CNC-SDS-0408 There are email messages waiting to be sent.
   
   01/21 15:17:48:950 (Info): CNC-SDS-0409 The email messages were sent to 1 recipients.
   
   Output
   
   01/21 14:50:36:952 Submitted request to run job Execute Daily Reports 01/21 14:50:38:937 Successfully submitted job Execute Daily Reports

4. Click the Run Info tab to view additional details about the job. You can also view this tab to view information about the runtime status while the job is running, including any messages.

   • If you run a job that completes abnormally, you can click the Messages tab to view notes associated with the failure.

   • If you run a pre-existing job, the Run Info tab contains a Job Steps tab.

5. Click the Diagnostics tab to view the diagnostic information for this job.

6. Click the Cognos tab to view the job definition details and the variables that were used when the job was submitted.

   While the job is running, the fields are disabled; however, prior to running or rerunning the job, you can override any value on this screen. Your changes here only apply to this instance of the job, the original job definition is not affected.

7. Click OK when you have finished viewing the job activity details to close the dialog.