Credentials

Your credentials are the user name and password that you use to sign in to IBM® Cognos® Analytics. Your credentials are associated with groups, roles, capabilities, and permissions that determine what parts of the user interface you can access and how you can interact with content.

If you change the password you use to sign in to Cognos Analytics, be sure to renew your credentials. Your saved credentials are used to run scheduled requests when you're not signed in, for example, overnight. Credentials are automatically renewed once a day, but a schedule run can fail, if it runs after you change your password, but before your credentials are automatically renewed.

If you are prompted for credentials when you connect to a data server, you can save your credentials so you aren't prompted for them every time that you use the same data server. Your saved data server credentials are listed in your advanced, personal preferences. You can view and delete listed entries.

To see what groups and roles and what capabilities are available with your sign-in credentials, see Viewing your permissions for capabilities.