This section describes how to validate a report before
running it.
About this task
When you open a report created in a previous version of IBM® Cognos® 8,
it is automatically upgraded and validated.
To validate a report:
- In the Tools menu, click Validate Options.
- In the Validate Options window, in the Validation level list,
click one of the following validation levels :
- Error (All errors returned by a report query are displayed
in the Validation Response message box.)
- Warning (All errors and warnings that are returned when
a report is run)
- Key Transformation (Informational messages are displayed
that describe important transformation steps from the report specification
to the native query sent to the data source. These messages can help
you to understand the cause of errors and warnings returned from the
query. This feature is only partially implemented.)
- Information (Errors, warnings, key transformations, and
other information related to query planning and execution)
- To specify that no query optimization is to be used, select the Interactive
data check box. This check box controls how queries are processed
during validation. To set the Execution Optimization property
to All Rows, clear the check box.
- In the Tools menu, click Validate Report. A Validation
Response message box opens listing errors found in the report.
- 5. If only warnings and information are displayed, they will disappear
when you click OK.
- If you encounter validation errors, you can use Report Studio
to identify the incorrect objects. In the Tools menu, click Auto
Correct. Report Studio provides a list of such objects, each of
which you can then remove.
- In some cases, the information or error message is linked to the
location of the issue in your report. To go to the location of the
issue, click the message, and then click Select.
For more information about validating a report, see the IBM Cognos Connection
User Guide and Report Studio Professional Authoring User Guide.