Rather than store administrative credentials in a script,
you can add them to the job properties of the IBM® Cognos® Transformer
to enable scheduled tasks on Microsoft™ Windows™.
About this task
Finish configuring the job scheduler to run the Transformer
periodically by adding the Windows Administrator
credentials to the MetricsCubeDailyRefresh scheduler job.
Procedure
- Click and click Task Scheduler.
- In the navigation tree, click Task Scheduler
Library.
- In the list of scheduled tasks, click MetricsCubeDailyRefresh to
view its properties.
- In the MetricsCubeDailyRefresh Properties window,
open the General tab and click the Change
User or Group button.
- In the Select user or group dialog
box, type administrator in the Enter
the object name to select field, and then click the Check
Names button.
The Task Scheduler compiles a list accounts with administrative
access on this Windows server.
- When the Task Scheduler dialog box
prompts to Enter the user account information to run
this task, select the Windows Administrator
user name that will be associated with the MetricsCubeDailyRefresh
task, and type the password associated with that account; then click OK.
The selected administrator account now has the authority
to run the MetricsCubeDailyRefresh task.
- Click OK to save the change and
close the MetricsCubeDailyRefresh Properties window.
- Repeat these steps on the scheduled task
MetricsCubeWeeklyRebuild
.
- Close the Task Scheduler.