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:
  • 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.