Schedules are coordinated in Cognos 8 using the Schedule Management tool. The schedule management tool can be accessed directly from Cognos Connection and it allows to add, modify or delete a schedule, view report run history and change the properties of a job.

Reports can be scheduled in Cognos 8 to run:
• individually or by using a job
• on a yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, hourly and by minute basis
• at a given time in the future or at a recurring date and time

Each report or job can be associated with only one schedule. If multiple schedules are required for the same report, multiple report views need to be created and scheduled for each report.

To Schedule multiple reports, it is necessary to create a job. A Cognos job composed of steps, each of which is a reference to an individual report, a report view or another job.
The steps in a job can be executed in a sequence or in parallel.