Customize IBM Cognos Office

You can specify the following preferences for IBM Cognos Office:

• the application, such as IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office or IBM Cognos Analysis for Microsoft Excel, to start up when you first open IBM Cognos Office Customizing how IBM Cognos Office starts.
• the location of IBM Cognos Analytics gateways Configure a connection to an IBM Cognos Analytics system.
• whether to enable single signon for authentication Setting up forms-based user authentication.
• whether to enable forms-based authentication Setting up forms-based user authentication.
• whether to enable logging and at what level of detail Enabling logging as a diagnostic tool.

Each time that you start the IBM Cognos Office application, these settings apply to your session.