Installation of IBM Cognos reporting components

Installation of IBM® Cognos® reporting components is optional. You need these components only if you use the Cognos based reports. You must complete the installation and data synchronization process before you can access and work with IBM Verify Identity Governance Cognos reports.

Note: IBM Cognos reporting does not support Microsoft SQL Server database as content store. Use Db2® database or Oracle database instead.

The following table describes the installation and synchronization process.

Table 1. Installation and data synchronization process
Task For more information
Install Cognos Business Intelligence.
  1. Access http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.cbi.doc/welcome.html.
  2. Search for Install and configure server components.
Install Framework Manager.
  1. Access http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.cbi.doc/welcome.html.
  2. Search for Installing IBM Cognos Framework Manager.
Complete the data synchronization.
See Data synchronization.
Note: Run the data synchronization before you generate the reports to obtain the latest report data.

Cognos reporting

IVIG installs Cognos reports and models. To use these new reports and models, see the Cognos reporting documentation at IBM Cognos Analytics documentation.

Optionally, you can install IBM Framework Manager, if you want to customize the reports or models.

You can find the Cognos reports and models that are specific to IVIG at:
  • IM_HOME/extensions/6.0/Cognos/Model/ISIMReportingModel_6.0.x.x – ISIM model files
  • IM_HOME/extensions/6.0/Cognos/Reports/ISIMReportingPackage_6.0.x.x.zip – ISIM report files
You can find the Cognos reports and models that are specific to IVIG at:
Note: You must set the locale to English or to any supported language before you run any of the reports. See Setting language preferences. Otherwise, you might encounter a "Language not supported" issue.