Question

I have created a report and subscriptions but when I go to SQL Server 2008 R2 Management Studio and connect to Report Server I do not see anything under Jobs folder. When I right-click I do not see an option to create a Job. How do I make a job so that it shows under this folder?

Answer 1

There are a couple of things you can check

1. Is SQLAgent currently turned on?
2. Is SQL Agent set to auto-start?
3. Under what permissions (i.e. user account or proxy account) is SQLAgent set to run?
4. What type of subscription did you create? scheduled? data-driven? (the latter is an enterprise-edition only feature)
5. What delivery method for the subscriptions? to a folder? via email? If to a folder, does the SQLAgent account have the appropriate permissions to read/write on that shared folder? If via email, have you configured the SMTP settings in SSRS configuration tool?
6. I am assuming that SSRS is installed in native (not SharePoint integrated mode) – is this correct? There are different set of troubleshooting steps if the latter

For completeness, here’s an MSDN reference (step-by-step) on how to create a subscription. Also I assume that your user account has the appropriate permissions to create other types (that is, non-SSRS subscription jobs) of new jobs on your SQL Server instance via SSMS.