Automate Hyperion Provisioning Report generation

Hi All,
We are planning to automate weekly Hyperion Provisioning Report generation from shared services. Is there a way to schedule it ? Kindly advice.
Regards,
Andy

Hi Andy,
I dont see any utility or way to reach out to report automation, as a workaround i can provide you with below query which can give the provision information which would be simlar to Provision Report.
Run the below query on Shared Services Schema.
select p.application_id,p.createdtimestamp,c1.name,o.name,o.locale from
css_provisioning_info p,css_groups c1,css_role_locales o
where p.member_identity in c1.identity_id and p.role_identity in o.identity_id and
o.locale='en_US' and p.application_id like '%XXXXXX%'
order by c1.name
and You can automate this to get a report pulled at our desired timings.
Thanks
Amith

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>
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