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Creating a report using Cognos 11

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Creating reports with Cognos 11 differs from previous versions of Cognos. Use this procedure to create a report using the pre-defined OnCommand Insight reports.

About this task

Use the following steps to generate a simple report on physical capacity of storage and storage pools in a number of data centers.

Steps

  1. In the toolbar, click new report

  2. Click Report

  3. Click Templates > Blank

  4. Click Themes > Cool Blue > OK

    The Source and Data tabs is displayed

  5. Click Source > new report

  6. In the Open file dialog, click Team content > Packages

    A list of available packages is displayed.

  7. Click Storage and Storage Pool Capacity > Open

  8. Click new report

    The available styles for your report are displayed.

  9. Click List

    Add appropriate names for List and Query

  10. Click OK

  11. Expand Physical Capacity

  12. Expand to the lowest level of Data Center

  13. Drag data center to the Reporting palate.

  14. Expand Capacity (MB)

  15. Drag Capacity (MB) to the Reporting palate.

  16. Drag Used Capacity (MB) to the Reporting palate.

  17. Run the report, by clicking run report and selecting an output type.

Results

A report similar to the following is created:

cognos 11 report