Setting up email notifications

You can configure IBM® Cognos® to send IBM® EMM reports as email attachments. This step is optional. When an IBM® Cognos® report is displayed in the IBM® EMM interface, the Cognos® Viewer toolbar in the window includes an option for sending the report as an attachment in an email.

Before you can set up email notifications, obtain the following information:

Host name or IP address of your SMTP server

User name and password for the account on that server

Email address for the default sender email

1.	Complete the following tasks to set up email notifications:

2.	In the Cognos Configuration window, select Data Access > Notification.

3.	Specify the host name or IP address of the SMTP mail server and the port by using one of the following formats:

host:port

IPAddress:port

For example, serverX:25 or 192.168.1.101:25. The default SMTP port is usually 25.

4.	To set the user name and password of the account, click in the Value column and click the pencil icon to open the Value dialog box.

5.	Specify the default sender by using the user@company.com format.