Linking glossary objects in InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog to reports in InfoSphere Information Governance Dashboard

You can create custom attributes for information governance policies and information governance rules that link to your IBM® InfoSphere® Information Governance Dashboard reports.

1. In the Public Folders navigation area in Cognos Connection, click the Set Properties icon to the right of the report name.
   
2. On the General tab of the Set Properties page, click View the search path, ID and URL.
   
3. Copy the contents of the Default action URL field and paste the contents into a text editor. The URL is the similar to the following URL:

   http://localhost:80/ibmcognos/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi?b_action=
   cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object=%2fcontent%2fpackage
   %5b%40name%3d%27Information_Governance_Dashboard%27%5d%
   2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Reports%27%5d%2ffolder%5b%40name
   %3d%27Information%20Governance%27%5d%2freport%5b%40name%
   3d%27Policy%20Implementation%20Status%27%5d&ui.name=
   Policy%20Implementation%20Status&run.outputFormat=
   &run.prompt=true

4. Open InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, and on the Glossary tab find and copy the RID of the policy or information governance rule that you want to link to the Cognos report:
   1. Click Information Governance Policies in the Browse section to display the list of available objects of this type.
   2. Right-click the link to the information governance policy and copy the shortcut or link location.
   3. Paste the link into the text editor. The link looks similar to this link.

      http://myhost.mycompany.com:9443/ibm/iis/igc/#dossierView/6662c0f2.8ed29152.19hjrq6dd.ptbhkbo.jumasj.045p3n3ju7aa46b7gg594?bg_req_context=%7B%22perspective%22%3A%22Glossary%22%7D

   4. Delete the text in the link before and including #dossierView/ and delete the text after and including the question-mark (?). The remainder is the RID. In the example above the RID is 6662c0f2.8ed29152.19hjrq6dd.ptbhkbo.jumasj.045p3n3ju7aa46b7gg594.
5. In the text editor, append one of the following strings to the URL that you copied previously.

   For this type of asset	Append this string
   Information governance policy	&run.prompt=false&p_Entry%20Policy%20RID= copied in step c and append the RID that you extracted in step d.
   Information governance rule	&run.prompt=false&p_Information%20Governance%20Rule%20RID=RID_of_this_asset, where RID_of_this_asset is the RID that you copied.

6. In the text editor, at the end of the edited URL, append |view to the end of the URL and enclose the entire URL in brackets. This suffix indicates that view is the value to display.

   The URL now looks like the following example. (Replace the localhost portion of the URL with the IP address of your Cognos server to ensure that you can access the URL remotely.)

   [http://localhost:80/ibmcognos/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi?b_action=
   cognosViewer&ui.action=run&ui.object=%2fcontent%2fpackage
   %5b%40name%3d%27Information_Governance_Dashboard%27%5d%
   2ffolder%5b%40name%3d%27Reports%27%5d%2ffolder%5b%
   40name%3d%27Information%20Governance%27%5d%2freport
   %5b%40name%3d%27Policy%20Implementation%20Status%
   27%5d&ui.name=Policy%20Implementation%20Status&run
   .outputFormat=&run.prompt=true&run.prompt=false&
   p_Entry%20Policy%20RID=6662c0f2.8ed29152.19hjrq6dd
   .ptbhkbo.jumasj.045p3n3ju7aa46b7gg594|view]

7. Create the custom attribute:
   1. On InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, click Administration, expand Catalog Management, and then click For Glossary Assets.
   2. Click New to create a custom attribute. Use the same name for the custom attribute as the name of the report that you want to link to. Click Save.
   3. Click Catalog > Glossary > Information Governance Policies.
   4. Select the information governance policy that you want to assign to the report, and then click Edit. The custom attribute appears in the General Information section.
   5. In the field next to the name of the custom attribute for your report, paste the full URL that you created in step 6, and then click Save.
   6. Click View to leave the Edit page and display the page for the policy. Next to the name of the custom attribute, the word view appears, underlined with an embedded link to the report: