Prerequisites for using the Cognos reports

To use the Cognos reports of IBM® InfoSphere® Information Governance Dashboard, you must install the required components and create the necessary governance assets in the metadata repository.

Software prerequisites

Meet the following software prerequisites:

InfoSphere Information Governance Dashboard requires access to a metadata repository of an IBM InfoSphere Information Server installation.
To be able to use reports on metadata, you must ensure that IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog is available.
To use the Cognos reports, IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence Server version 10.2.1 with at least Fix Pack 4 must be installed and Dynamic Query mode must be enabled.
For advanced use cases that go beyond what is supported by the Cognos reports, the InfoSphere Information Governance Dashboard model, which is a Framework Manager model, must be changed. To change the model, you must install Cognos Framework Manager version 10.2.1 with at least Fix Pack 4. The version and fix pack level of Cognos Framework Manager must be the same version as the version and fix pack level of Cognos Business Intelligence that you use. See Installing the InfoSphere Information Governance Dashboard model for more information.
Ensure that the web browser that you use is supported for your version of Cognos Business Intelligence: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27037784.

Required assets

To take full advantage of the available queries and reports, ensure that the necessary metadata is available and has properly linked relationships when you implement your information governance environment. The following list describes tasks that you might want to perform if your metadata is not already prepared appropriately:

Import database metadata such as tables and columns by using IBM InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager.
In InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, create policies and information governance rules and link them to each other. Create stewards and terms and link them to assets.
In InfoSphere Information Analyzer, create data rule definitions and rule set definitions and the corresponding data rules and rule sets.
To include data rules in reports of the Data Quality domain, link the information governance rules in InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog to the data rules and data rule sets that were created in InfoSphere Information Analyzer.