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Displaying Cognos reports

IBM® Intelligent Operations Center provides a theme for creating reports pages and a reports portlet for displaying Cognos® reports. When you create a reports page, the page is displayed as a view in the IBM Intelligent Operations Center interface.

Before you begin

You can configure a data source to be available for inclusion in Cognos reports:
  1. In the data source configuration tool, click the Basics tab.
  2. For Report model, select Yes.

If you want to display Cognos reports in a high availability environment, you must complete the configuration that is described in the Configure the Cognos model in a high availability environment link.

For each report that you want to display, obtain the default action URL from the Cognos Connection console. Then, edit the default action URL before you use it to configure Cognos reports as described in the main procedure. To obtain and edit the default action URL, as a system administrator, complete the following steps:
  1. To open the Cognos Connection console, in the Solution Administration view, click System Administration > Administration Consoles > Report Administration.
  2. In the Cognos Connection console, expand the IOC directory.
  3. In the reports portlet, locate the report that you want to display.
  4. In the actions column for the report, click Set properties.
  5. On the General tab, click View the search path, ID and URL.
  6. Note the value of the Default Action URL.
  7. In the IBM Intelligent Operations Center Solution Administration view, click System Properties > AnalyticServerDispatchUrl, and copy the host name and the port number from the Value field.
  8. In the default action URL that you noted, replace the host name and the port number with the host name and the port number that you copied from the AnalyticServerDispatchUrl system property.
  9. Ensure that the edited default action URL uses the HTTPS protocol.
Use the edited default action URL to configure a report as described in the main procedure.

About this task

The name of the reports theme is IOC Portal 8 Reports Theme and it contains two non-collapsible panes. The name of the reports portlet is ioc_ui_reports_portlet. You can use the reports theme to create a reports page and then position two reports portlets side by side in the reports page.

Because the preferences that you configure for a portlet are global, copy the reports portlet and then customize the copied reports portlet to display Cognos reports.

In the Portal Administration view, use the following procedure to create a reports page that contains up to two reports portlets. You can configure each reports portlet to contain up to three reports.

For more information about managing pages and portlets, see Creating or customizing a page, or the WebSphere® Portal Server product documentation.

Procedure

  1. In the IBM Intelligent Operations Center interface, click Administration > Portal Administration.

Configure reports portlets

  1. Click Portlet Management > Portlets.
  2. Configure a reports portlet for display in the reports page:
    1. Locate ioc_ui_reports_portlet in the list of portlets, and then click the Copy portlet icon.
    2. Save the copy of the reports portlet with an appropriate name, for example, ioc_ui_cognos1_portlet.
    3. Locate the new reports portlet in the list of portlets, and then click the Configure portlet icon.
    4. Configure the height and URL of up to three reports to be displayed in the reports portlet. Obtain the URL for each report by using the steps that are in the previous Before you begin section.
    5. To disable report headers and toolbars in the reports portlet that you display, add the following value to the end of the URL for each report:
      • &cv.toolbar=false&cv.header=false
  3. Optional: Repeat the previous step to configure a second reports portlet for display in the reports page.

Configure reports page

  1. Click Portal User Interface > Manage Pages.
  2. Click Content Root > City Name > Citywide.
  3. Click New Page.
  4. Select or specify the appropriate options for the reports page. For Theme, select IOC Portal 8 Reports Theme.
  5. Configure the reports page to display the reports portlets that you created previously.
  6. To disable report headers in the report that you display, configure the following report parameters with a value of false:
    • cv.toolbar
    • cv.header

What to do next

For more information about configurable report parameters, see the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence product documentation.