How IBM Cognos Determines Search Order When Building a Request

IBM® Cognos® uses a search order to determine which settings (options and parameter values) are applied when a request is initiated to run an object. You can specify different settings in different places to dictate different behaviors based on how an object is run. For example, you can schedule a report with one set of run options, but use a different set of options when running the report interactively.

Because options and parameter values can be specified in various places, a predefined search order exists for determining where to obtain the options and parameter values used to build the request that runs the object.