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Data Infrastructure Insights Reporting User Roles

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If you have Data Infrastructure Insights Premium Edition with Reporting, every Data Infrastructure Insights user in your environment also has a Single Sign-On (SSO) login to the Reporting application (i.e. Cognos). Simply click the Reports link in the menu and you will automatically be logged in to Reporting.

Your user role in Data Infrastructure Insights determines your Reporting user role:

Data Infrastructure Insights Role

Reporting Role

Reporting Permissions

Guest

Consumer

Can view, schedule, and run reports and set personal preferences such as those for languages and time zones. Consumers cannot create reports or perform administrative tasks.

User

Author

Can perform all Consumer functions as well as create and manage reports and dashboards.

Administrator

Administrator

Can perform all Author functions as well as all administrative tasks such as configuration of reports and the shutdown and restart of reporting tasks.

The following table shows the functions available to each Reporting role.

Feature

Consumer

Author

Administrator

View reports in the Team Content tab

Yes

Yes

Yes

Run reports

Yes

Yes

Yes

Schedule reports

Yes

Yes

Yes

Upload external files

No

Yes

Yes

Create Jobs

No

Yes

Yes

Create stories

No

Yes

Yes

Create reports

No

Yes

Yes

Create Packages and Data Modules

No

Yes

Yes

Perform administrative tasks

No

No

Yes

Add/Edit HTML Item

No

No

Yes

Run report with HTML Item

Yes

Yes

Yes

Add/Edit Custom SQL

No

No

Yes

Run reports with Custom SQL

Yes

Yes

Yes

Setting Reporting (Cognos) email preferences

Note If you change your user email preferences within Data Infrastructure Insights Reporting (i.e. the Cognos application), those preferences are active only for the current session. Logging out of Cognos and back in again will reset your email preferences.

What steps should I take to prepare my existing environment for enabling SSO?

To ensure your reports are retained, migrate all reports from My Content to Team Content using the following steps. You must do this prior to enabling SSO in your environment:

  1. Navigate to Menu > Content

Cognos upper-left Menu

  1. Create a new folder in Team Content

    1. If multiple users have been created, please create a separate folder for each user to avoid overwriting reports with duplicate names

  2. Navigate to My Content

  3. Select all of the reports you wish to retain.

  4. In the upper right corner of the menu, select "Copy or move"

  5. Navigate to the newly created folder in Team Content

  6. Paste the reports to the newly created folder using the "Copy to" or "Move to" buttons

  7. Once SSO is enabled for Cognos, log into Data Infrastructure Insights with the email address used to create your account.

  8. Navigate to the Team Content folder within Cognos, and Copy or Move the previously saved reports back to My Content.