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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Other
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 17, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

Ability to Store Data Connection in Job

We deliver several (20+) data sets to our clients in a multi-tenant environment. These datasets are deployed with demo data. They must copy these to a secured tenant folder in order to update them with their own data. We provide a pre-defined job that will refresh all data sets. If the client has multiple data connections enabled, then they first have to edit each data set and do a 'save as' to select the data connection they want to use for the refresh (quite tedious). If they need to use a test connection sometimes and then want to use prod connection other times - then it makes most sense to have two copies of all the data sets in order to avoid having to do a 'save as' every time you need to switch the data source. This is also problematic if we update the data sets in future. The client has to recopy and resave the connections for each data set every time we issue an update or add new data sets. My suggestion would be to define/capture the data connection for use within the job itself. Then you set the data connection once in the refresh job for any data sets contained within. You can have a different job for each connection as needed. This is considerably less work and maintenance than having to have the connection saved with each data set. I believe this concept would also be beneficial for jobs running reports or other cases as well.

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