Manage Current Activities

Current activities are entries that are currently being processed in IBM® Cognos® software.

Each entry is listed by name and shows the request time, the status, and the priority for background activities. The bar chart shows the total number of entries, broken down by the number of pending, executing, waiting, and suspended entries. When the activity is processing, the process number is displayed.

You can sort the Request time, Status, and Priority columns. You can choose to view a list of background activities or interactive activities.

For entries that are being processed in the background, you can click Show Details to see more information. For each entry, this displays Last Execution Response Time and Path, for example, Public Folders > Samples > Cubes > Great Outdoor Sales (cube).

In IBM Cognos Administration, the user who ran the entry is also listed. You can sort by user.

You can suspend background entries and release them later when you want them to run. You can permanently cancel runs for entries that have one of the following statuses:

pending in the queue
executing
suspended
waiting for a process external to IBM Cognos software to complete

You can filter the entries to display only those you want. You can choose to display only those entries with a specific status or priority, or entries of a specific type or scope.

In IBM Cognos Administration, for interactive current entries, you can filter by status and the dispatcher where the activity is running. For background current entries, you can filter by status, priority, type, scope, user who ran the entry, user who owns the entry, and dispatcher.

When an entry is currently running, the dispatcher, process ID, and start time is displayed. Note that process ID and dispatcher of current background entries might be unavailable when the activity first appears. Refresh the page to see the updated process ID and dispatcher.

If you cancel an entry that contains other entries, such as a job or an agent, steps or tasks that have not yet been completed are canceled. However, steps or tasks that have already completed remain completed.

You can change the priority of entries Manage Entry Run Priority and view the run history View the Run History for Entries.

Procedure

If you are an administrator, from the Launch menu, click IBM Cognos Administration. On the Status tab, click Current Activities. In the Filter section, click Background activities or Interactive activities.
If you are a user, in IBM Cognos Connection, in the upper-right corner, click the my area options button , click My Activities and Schedules, and in the left pane, click Current Activities.
In the Filter section, click the filtering items that you want to use.
Tip: If you want to use advanced filtering options, click Advanced options. To reset all selections to the default settings, click Reset to default.
Click Apply.
The list shows the entries that you selected.

To perform an action on an individual entry, click the Actions arrow for the entry and select the action. To perform an action on several entries, select the check box for the entries you want and then click one of the following buttons on the toolbar.

The following table specifies the actions available for entries and the associated icons:

Table 1. Manage current activities actions and icons
Action	Icon
Show Details (top right-hand corner)
Hide Details (top right-hand corner)
Cancel the run (Actions menu beside entry)
Suspend the run (Actions menu beside entry)
Run suspended entries (Actions menu beside entry)
Set Priority (Actions menu beside entry)

Tip: To select all entries in the list, select the check box for the list.