Optional step: Set up email notification

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. If you want to enable IBM® Cognos® to send IBM® EMM reports as email attachments, configure notification in Cognos® Configuration.

Use the following guidelines to set up email notification for the IBM® EMM application reports:

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

In Cognos® Configuration, select Data Access > Notification and do the following.

Specify the SMTP mail server using the host name or the IP address plus the port using the format host:port or IPAddress:port. For example, serverX:25 or 192.168.1.101:25. (The default SMTP port is usually 25.)

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.

Specify the default sender using the pattern user@company.com.

If you have any questions about configuring email notification, see the Cognos® Connection online help.