Chapter 6. IBM Cognos Active Report

Active Report is a report output type in Report Studio introduced in IBM Cognos BI V10.1. It is an easy-to-use, self-contained Business Intelligence (BI) application that provides highly interactive managed dashboard capabilities.

Active Reports are built by professional report authors for end users who either require managed dashboards or are offline remote users. Active reports can be scheduled, distributed, and burst in the same way as you would a PDF (report) or another report output type in IBM Cognos BI environment. Users can use Active Reports disconnected from the server but with full interactivity.

This chapter is structured to address the needs of both Active Report end users and report authors. If ...

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