Automated Report Delivery - FNMS Reports Index

May 1, 2019 at 1:25 PM

Hi - I was wondering if anyone had experience with automated delivery of reporting out of FlexNet Management Suite? We do have a Cognos connection but unfortunately I am completely lost in trying to build reports in Cognos.

Ultimately I'd like to just find a way to schedule an automated delivery of a .csv of a report i generated out of "reports index".

We are on FNMS 12.2.0.14820 .

Thanks!!

FlexNet Manager Suite On-Premises

ChrisG (Flexera Software)
7 years ago
If you are comfortable with scripting (using PowerShell or something of that nature), then an approach to doing this that doesn't involve Cognos is:
Extract data from the FlexNet database - this could be done using a web API to run a pre-configured report (like is described here ), or by a direct SQL query to the database.
Write a script to deliver the extracted data using whatever mechanism you prefer (e.g. save it to a file on a file share, email it, ...)
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- johnksilverwood
  7 years ago
  Thanks Chris. Sounds like it's time for me to start learning SQL. :smileyhappy:
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