Managing past activities from the Administration console

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. 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. 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 Viewing the run history of entries.

Procedure

  1. From the Manage menu, click Administration console.
  2. On the Status tab, click Past Activities.

    A chart appears, showing when past activities were run and whether they succeeded, failed, or were canceled. Below the chart, details about the activities are listed.

  3. To filter the activities that appear in the chart and the list, go to the Filter panel and select the attributes you want.
    Tip: You can filter by the following attributes:
    • the period within which the activities ran
    • the user who performed the activity
    • the activity owner
    • the activity status
    • the activity type
    • the dispatcher that ran the activity
    • the scope of folders in Team content where the item resides

    The following diagram shows an example of how past activities are displayed from the Administration console. In this example, note the following:

    • The list is filtered to show only reports run by Harry Miller.
    • The job named Metrics contains two reports that are run as job steps. However, these two report runs do not appear in the list of activities.
    Diagram showing the how past activities appear in the Administration console
  4. If an activity failed, you can pause over the error button next to the status to see the severity of the error.
  5. To perform an action on an individual entry, click the Actions arrow for the entry and select the action.

    To perform an action on several entries, click either the Show Details Show details icon icon or the Hide Details Hide details icon icon in the toolbar.