Access the IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog

If you use the IBM® InfoSphere® Information Governance Catalog, you can access the catalog from various data objects in a report.

Before you begin

To access the IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, your Cognos® administrator must specify the URI of the Catalog web page in Cognos Administration. For more information, see the IBM Cognos Analytics Administration and Security Guide.

About this task

Business glossaries help you manage and share an enterprise vocabulary and classification system.

If you use the IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog, you can access the catalog from any of the following data objects:

  • Query subject
  • Query item
  • Measure
  • Dimension
  • Hierarchy
  • Level
  • Property or attribute
  • Top node member
  • Member
  • Level item

Procedure

  1. Open an HTML report or report view in the IBM Cognos Viewer or in the Cognos Analytics interactive viewer.
  2. If you are in the IBM Cognos Viewer, right-click the data item and click Glossary.
  3. If you are in the Cognos Analytics interactive viewer, select the data item, and in the report object toolbar, click the Explore icon Explore icon and then click Glossary.

Results

The IBM InfoSphere Information Governance Catalog appears.