Viewing BG Terms from Cognos

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Viewing BG Terms from Cognos

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Information Center wrote:IBM Cognos Business Intelligence provides capabilities and information that businesses need to manage their performance. If you have IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 8 or IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10 and InfoSphere Business Glossary or InfoSphere Business Glossary for Cognos installed, you can view glossary content from directly within the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence interface.
Does anyone know how to configure this? In particular is there anything that has to be set up in Cognos so that it knows the location of the services tier for Business Glossary? I have scrutinized the Business Glossary Admin manual thoroughly, and searched Information Center, but without any luck,

Also, does this functionality require Cognos 10 or will it work with Cognos 8.4?

Thank you for your time.
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I don't have Cognos, but I know to search Cognos docs rather than BG docs for this answer. Try this link as it has steps for Cognos 10:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... ssary.html

U can try searching the Cognos 8 info center on "Business Glossary" too.
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It's configured from Cognos, not from Business Glossary. You need to find the right Cognos admin settings screen and enter the Glossary URI. It works for Cognos 8.4 and Cognos 10.
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U can do it!

I always wanted to say that... :lol:
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I would imagine that the appropriate Glossary URI would be http://hostname:9080/bg (or some subset thereof) but, presumably, you also need to configure Cognos with a user name and password. Maybe the hostname and port number are configured with separate properties. Not really my area of expertise.
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A little bit of research later...

Post by ray.wurlod »

The first URL is the Information Center for IBM Cognos BI version 8.4.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... /index.jsp

Execute a Search for "Business Glossary" - a number of links of varying usefulness will appear on the left-hand side.


The second URL is the instructions for configuring Cognos to specify the URI of the Glossary Web page.
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... s_Glossary

Steps
  • In IBM Cognos Connection, click Launch, IBM Cognos Administration.

    On the Status tab, click System.

    Click the arrow next to System to display the Actions menu, and then click Set Properties.

    Click the Settings tab.
    • All terms that contain the keyword specified in the search are returned.
    Click OK.

You can access the glossary from any of the following data objects in Report Studio, Query Studio, and Analysis Studio:
Query subject
Query item
Measure
Dimension
Hierarchy
Level
Property/attribute
Top node member
Member
Level item


Example: Accessing Business Glossary from Cognos Viewer
  • Open an HTML report or report view in Cognos Viewer.

    Right-click the data item you want, and click Glossary.
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Post by U »

Thank you all, I will pass that information to our Cognos team and let you know the outcome. It may take some time - they say they're extremely busy. (But, then, it was them who demanded to know this information. :roll: )
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