Cognos Notifications and Alerts: Fall 2022
Planned Cognos Maintenance 01.06.2023
Attention: Cognos Customers (IQ-Data & IQ-Author)
What’s Happening:
Performing planned maintenance to update Cognos resource links.
Maintenance Date / Time:
Start Time: Friday, January 6, 2023, 9:00PM
End Time: Friday, January 6, 2023, 10:00PM
Impact and Risks:
Maintenance will stop/start Cognos service one node at a time and is anticipated to be transparent with no service impact. If you are logged into Cognos during the maintenance, there could be a slight blip that would require a browser refresh to continue in Cognos.
Questions/Concerns:
Please contact D2I-LDSHelp@austin.utexas.edu.
Planned Cognos File Management 12.16.2022
Attention: Cognos IQ-Author Report Developers for Accounting and Purchasing & Payment Services
Please see the information below for the dates/times and explanation of the planned file maintenance.
When?
- Start Time: Friday, December 16, 2022 at 5:00 PM
- End Time: Monday, December 19, 2022 at 7:00 AM
Why?
File maintenance – rematerialization required for file modifications to the TX-DOCUMENTS (UTDBA.TX_72_DOCUMENTS and related tables).
What is affected?
- The TX-DOCUMENTS (and related tables) are available from the following areas:
- Accounting and CSU Accounting Packages and Purchasing & Payment Services Package in Cognos IQ-Author Report Studio (https://iq-author.austin.utexas.edu).
- During the rematerialization maintenance window, the TX-DOCUMENTS fields in the Accounting Packages and Purchasing & Payment Services Package, and any reports using these fields will NOT be available.
Questions/Concerns?
Please contact D2I-LDSHelp@austin.utexas.edu.
Planned Cognos Maintenance 11.18.2022
What's Happening?
- Downtime maintenance planned for Cognos Service – security patching maintenance.
- We ran into an issue last night, 11/17/22, on the IQ-Author security patching. See below for the new date for this maintenance.
- The IQ-Data maintenance will continue as planned tonight, 11/18/22.
When?
- IQ-Data – Friday, November 18, 7:00PM – 12:00AM
- IQ-Author – Tuesday, November 22, 7:00PM – 12:00AM
- All existing cubes, reports, packages and schedules on IQ-Data and IQ-Author will be UNAVAILABLE during the designated downtime maintenance.
Action Required:
- Reports scheduled to run during the designated downtime maintenance window will NOT run. The schedules will resume as expected on the next scheduled date/time or you may manually send the scheduled report(s) the morning after the downtime maintenance.
Questions?
Please contact D2I-LDSHelp@austin.utexas.edu.
D2I Technical Change Management: 11.11.2022
Upcoming ExaData Database Migration Recording (UT Login Required)
Planned Cognos Maintenance: 11.10.2022
What's Happening?
Downtime maintenance planned for Cognos Service – security patching maintenance.
When?
- IQ-Author: Thursday, November 17, 7:00pm-12:00am
- IQ-Data: Friday, November 18, 7:00pm-12:00am
- All existing cubes, reports, packages, and schedules on IQ-Data and IQ-Author will be UNAVAILABLE during the designated downtime maintenance.
Action Required:
Reports scheduled to run during the designated downtime maintenance window will not run. The schedules will resume as expected on the next scheduled date/time or you may manually send the scheduled report(s) the morning after the downtime maintenance.
Questions?
Please contact D2I-LDSHelp@austin.utexas.edu.