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Mack L posted Fri February 14, 2025 09:48 AM

Hi,

I would like to know if the date of generation of report can be suffixed to the filename of report output.  I have an existing scheduled report in Cognos that delivers pdf output via email to an email group daily. I want to have the file names of report outputs to include the timestamp. Can this be done?

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Milan Milovanovic posted Thu February 20, 2025 02:50 AM

I think that this could be done with Event Studio. Event Studio will work only with CQM packages. Here is a video tutorial about Event Studio:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x4nYsWL7pk
Here is a short tutorial how to add bursting key to file name by using Event Studio:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/how-set-bursting-reports-burst-key-attached-filename

Event studio was removed in version 12.0, but it seems that it is part of Cognos again, from the version 12.0.1 with a new name Event Agent:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.0.0?topic=ea-event-studio-reinstated-as-standard-component-renamed-event-agent


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