Sharing Results

After you complete your analysis and identify the data that best answers your business question, you may need to share that information with colleagues.

A saved analysis can be viewed, printed, scheduled, or enhanced further in IBM® Cognos® Report Studio like any other report.

If you have the necessary permissions, you can open your analysis in Report Studio to enhance an analysis or deliver it to different people. You can change the default presentation styles to meet your corporate standards, define bursting rules, or modify the query expressions to improve performance. For more information, see the IBM Cognos Report Studio User Guide.

Tip: To open your analysis in IBM Cognos Report Studio, from the File menu, click Open with Report Studio.

Note: If you make and save changes to an IBM Cognos Analysis Studio analysis in Report Studio, the analysis can no longer be opened in Analysis Studio.

When an analysis is imported into Report Studio, the report contains one query which processes all the sets found on the crosstab. Each set is defined by 18 data items that segment and summarize the base set definition. To maintain reports converted from Analysis Studio in Report Studio, you should understand what each of these items represents and how they relate to each other. For more information, see the IBM Cognos Report Studio User Guide

Analysis results can be shared in the following ways:

as HTML output in IBM Cognos Viewer
as a PDF
as an Excel spreadsheet
in CSV or XML format

Note: When you run a report in an export format such as PDF, delimited text (CSV), Microsoft Excel (XLS), the IBM Cognos report name is used as the exported file name.

To improve the presentation of the results, you may want to add a title, separate the data on different pages, or expand the values in More to show all the details.