Warning Message Appears When Excel Opens an IBM Cognos Analytics Report

Each time the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software opens an IBM® Cognos® Analytics report, a warning message appears.

The warning message is as follows:

Some of the files in this Web page are not in the expected location. Do you want to download them anyway? If you are sure the Web page is from a trusted source, click Yes.

The Excel workbook in HTML/XML format requires the presence of the file filelist.xml. IBM Cognos Analytics does not allow the creation of local files on the client side. In addition, a local file that contains URLs introduces a security issue. Consequently, this message will appear whenever you open an IBM Cognos Analytics report in Excel. If you see this error message, click Yes to open the report.