Create and customize user interface profiles

To meet the specific needs of your organization, you can now create and customize new user interface (UI) profiles for Cognos® Workspace Advanced users. You use UI profiles to control the features and functionality that are available in the user interface (UI). Users with different profiles see different interfaces and experience different default behavior.

In previous versions of IBM® Cognos Business Intelligence, you could manage two default user interface profiles on the Security tab in IBM Cognos Administration. Starting with this release, if you enable the feature, you can create and customize new profiles. To enable the feature, you migrate the default profiles to the Library tab in IBM Cognos Administration where you can then work with them.

When you create profiles, you select or exclude the features and functionality from the current software release that you want to show in the UI. You also choose whether to automatically show next generation functionality in the UI when the software is upgraded.