Cognos

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is a web-based integrated business intelligence suite provided by IBM. It provides a toolset for reporting, analytics, scorecarding, monitoring events, and metrics. IBM Automatic Data Lineage scanner processes Framework Manager models and report specifications retrieved from Cognos’ report storage (Content Store) along with manually provided Dynamic Cube Designer projects.

Automatic Data Lineage currently scans:

• Reports and interactive reports (including queries with SQL)

• Framework Manager models

• Dynamic cube projects (including virtual cubes)

• Data modules, data sets, uploaded files

• Database connections

Check out the guides below for more details on setting up this scanner.

• Cognos Integration Requirements
• Cognos Include/Exclude Options
• Cognos Resource Configuration

Extraction and Analysis Phase Scenarios

Extraction Phase

For the extraction phase for Cognos, there is only one scenario.

1. Cognos ingestion scenario - pulls inputs from git Manta Flow Agent Configuration for Extraction:Git Source or a remote agent filesystem location Manta Flow Agent Configuration for Extraction:Agent Source

Analysis Phase

For the analysis phase for Cognos models, there is only one scenario.

1. Cognos dataflow scenario — analyzes metadata from the provided Cognos models and and saves it in your Automatic Data Lineage metadata repository