ReassignRSReportsusingIITPackages-IllinoisInstituteofTechnology.ppt

* * * * * * * * Instructions for Moving a Cognos Report Studio Query to a New Package Changes to the ODS The Office of Institutional Information and the Office of Technology services are modifying many of the Operational Data Store (ODS) packages to mask social security number. This requires: copying the Sungard delivered packages, modifying the copy, removing the delivered package from Cognos. good news and bad news… Bad News All reports written using Query Studio based on Sungard delivered packages will need to be recreated from scratch using the IIT customized packages. All reports written using Report Studio will need to be transferred to the IIT customized packages. Good News Reports written using Report Studio can be modified and moved without starting from scratch. Your original report will continue to work for a while* so don’t delete them until you are absolutely sure you’ve successfully recreated them. Upgrades to Cognos and the ODS packages won’t break your reports. nor will future package customizations. So, you will never need to recreate your reports again. “Mr. Corleone is a man who insists on hearing bad news immediately. * We will notify report authors at least two weeks prior to removing the standard package. After that deadline, reports not yet recreated in the new package will no longer function. Schedule for Reassigning RS reports Reassign reports to IIT customized packages : Now through Friday February 27th Any new reports created in Query Studio or Report Studio should be based on the new IIT package. These will not require package reassignment. What does this mean for me? Report Authors Will need to revise queries that were written in Report Studio based on delivered packages, and transfer these from the delivered package to the customized package. Will need to recreate from scratch queries that were written in Query Studio based on delivered packages. Report Viewers Run reports all day long! Have fun! Nothing will stop you! Please