Using personal data sets in Cognos Business Intelligence

Individual business users can use the My Data Sets feature to create IBM® Cognos® reports that are based on their personal data without engaging a professional report author. The users can import data from a CSV, XLS or XLSX file, create a stand-alone package for the data in IBM Cognos Connection, and generate reports from that data.

Users can import large spreadsheets, with hundreds of thousands of rows, and publish the package to any location in IBM Cognos Connection for which they have write permissions.

Users can see only their personal data sets and can delete any packages or data sets that they created using this functionality. They can grant other users access to their personal data by sharing the corresponding packages.

Administrators control access to this functionality through the My Data Sets capability. They need to configure only one repository for the data sets of all individual users.