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Information on MotioPI for Cognos Administration

MotioPI is Desktop admin tool for Cognos and can be used independently( MotioCI is separate tool). Below are typical use cases:- Ø   Download report outputs on local machines in bulk; Ø   Model recovery from Content Store Ø   Administration of Environment - o    Data source information o    Create Report/Objects inventory creation for each application o    Content store bulk cleanup of outputs/schedules o    Owner change for reports/schedules o    Dispatcher/Environment settings o    Report execution times o    Studio to view spec/models and make changes Use the following link to launch MotioPI: http://www.motio.com/products/piLaunch.do Before you launch MotioPI, please visit our getting started webpage at https://www.motio.com/products/pi/gettingStarted.do

Download outputs in Bulk from Cognos

There are times when there are huge outputs generated for Compliance Requiement and Everyone doesn't have access to file system where Cognos saves output. Second case sometime we hit that somehow some outputs are not written to File System. If information is time critical to release and available in Cognos Content Store as well, it's manual efforts to download and save outputs for downstream processing. Downloading outputs from multiple Report Views is easily possible with MotioPI. Just select Cognos Output from tool, navigation to saved output location and download at desired LAN path!

Clean up of Cognos schedules using MotioPI

Problem: Users creates schedules and leave it and as users move out, they start failing. It leaves up to admin to see if they are genuine failure vs just clean up. Solution: One use case used heavily to find out reoccurring failure schedules for specific user and clean up them in one go using MotioPI. Benefits: Give more visibility in hidden issues in system other than having clean administration Help in clean up in schedules done from My Folders.