Configuring Cognos Business Intelligence

Configure your IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence environment to work with IBM Connections.

This configuration task assumes you have already installed the Cognos BI server. If you chose to deploy Cognos after installing Connections, be sure you have installed Cognos properly as described in Installing Cognos Business Intelligence components.

After you have installed Cognos Business Intelligence, configure the environment by completing the following tasks:

Granting access to global metrics
Configure the metrics-report-run security role to grant users the authority to view and interact with global metrics.
Granting access to community metrics
Configure the community-metrics-run security role to grant users the authority to view community metrics using static reports.
Configuring the IBMConnectionsMetricsAdmin role on Cognos
Configure the IBMConnectionsMetricsAdmin role in Cognos Business Intelligence to ensure that the Metrics administrator has access to features and reports.
Configuring PowerCube refresh schedules
By default, IBM Cognos Transformer refreshes each PowerCube with incremental updates once each day, and replaces the cube’s data for the current month once a week. These jobs are scheduled by default but you might need to modify the schedules to avoid conflicts with other activities.
Configuring Cognos Business Intelligence to use IBM HTTP Server
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence uses the same IBM HTTP Server as IBM Connections, but you must configure Cognos Business Intelligence to work with that server.

Parent topic: Setting up IBM Cognos Metrics to work with IBM Connections