Managing past activities from the Manage tool

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 .

Procedure

  1. From the Manage menu, click Activities.
  2. Click the type icon activity type icon, and then click Past.

    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, click the Filter icon Filter icon.
    Tip: You can filter by the following attributes:
    • The user who performed the activity.
    • The activity owner.
    • The activity status.
    • The activity type.

    The following diagram shows an example of how past activities are displayed from the Manage tool. 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. These two report runs appear in the list below the job that contained them.
    diagram showing how past activities appear in the Manage tool
  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 activity, click the More icon More icon for the entry and choose an action:
    • Click Run once to perform the activity again.
    • Click View versions to see details about previous runs of the report.
    • Click Run details to see information about the most recent run of the report.