I think the aggregate of the responses is the correct one.
PVU licenses are unlimited user licenses, and you can send Cognos output to whomever you wish.
Named user licenses do work differently, and the rule has been explained to me as follows:
- •If the report you are distributing is NOT specific to the recipient... ex: the same report goes to everyone in the company... then you do not need a license for those recipients
- •If the report is specific to an individual or group of individuals... ex: specific prompt or filters for those recipients... then they must have at least a Cognos Viewer license (this license used to be called Information Distribution but that recently changed).
The most recent license document I could find describes the Cognos Viewer license this way:
Licensee is
not authorized to use any of the following components or functions of the Program:
- Administration
- Run reports
- Report
- Story
- Create/Edit Dashboard
- Data module
- Exploration
- Upload files
- IBM Cognos Analysis Studio
- IBM Cognos Event Studio
- IBM Cognos Query Studio
- IBM Cognos Workspace
- Notebook (of IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook)
This license exists for the exact use case you're describing.
Rich
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Richard Chester
Director of Business Intelligence
LPA Software Solutions
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed July 15, 2020 02:20 PM
From: Guy-Philippe Arseneault
Subject: Email to recipients without a Cognos license
Hello,
I want to schedule a report delivery to multiple people, but some do not have a Cognos license. The report has prompts that are preset in the schedule configuration. From my understanding of the Cognos licensing model, this would not be permitted, but would still work?
It would be for a PDF attachment with the report.
Thanks
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Guy-Philippe Arseneault
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