Creating a report
Create a report by clicking the New icon 
in the IBM®
Cognos® Analytics portal and then clicking Report.
in the IBM®
Cognos® Analytics portal and then clicking Report.
When you create a report, you are actually creating a report specification. The report specification defines the queries and prompts that are used to retrieve data and the layouts and styles used to present the data. For simplicity, the report specification is named by the same name as the report.