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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 17, 2018

Provide Detailed Information for "Date Modified" in Properties of a Report

Currently the Properties of a Report have a field called "Date Modified" and according to the website from IBM below this field is updated under various conditions and "modified" is not the best description of those conditions. The website advises that there is an open RFE for better describing the various conditions such as "Last Run", "Last Edited", etc... but I am not able to find any such RFE, so we are creating this one.
Here is the post: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21340329
Here is the text of the post:
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Problem(Abstract)
In Cognos Connection, when is the "Date Modified" field for a report updated?

Cause
Updates are made to the Content Store when properties of report is modified.

Resolving the problem
The date is modified not only when the report is saved in Report Studio. The date is also updated if there needs to be an update made to the Content Store regarding the report, example:

Run with options => Advanced options => "Run in background" => "Save as report view" => "Execute"
Run with options => Advanced options => "Run in background" => "Save in file system" => "Execute"
Run with options => Advanced options => "Run in background" => "Send email" => "Attach the report" => "Execute"
Reason is that a temporary report output has to be created and store to save it to file system / to send via email / to create a report view based on this. This temporary report output is a "modification" to the report object in Content Store hence "Date Modified" in Cognos Connection updates.

There is an open Enhancement Request already submitted that asks for more detail "Date Modified" like access date, execute date, change date etc. The Enhancement Request has not been implemented yet.
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