Ecosystems

An ecosystem encapsulates a set of computing resources, environment variables, processes, and file resources.

Ecosystems make it easy to organize your system into resources that are shared or need a common layer of security access. Each ecosystem is defined with one or more environments, giving you the option to share resources across workspace boundaries.

Environments are subentities of an ecosystem and every ecosystem has at least one environment. An environment defines a real or virtual machine instance where IBM® Cognos® Command Center agents are installed and processes are run. The typical use of multiple environments is to create separate production, QA, and development environments within an ecosystem. Combined with the use of environment variables, IBM Cognos Command Center offers a powerful way to define a single file resource or process that is shared across multiple environments.

To manage ecosystems, you use the IBM Cognos Command Center Windows user interface. Select the Ecosystems folder in Setup and Design. You can either add a new ecosystem with the toolbar icon or view/edit an existing one by double-clicking an ecosystem name.