IBM Cognos Finance

IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence supports IBM Cognos Finance as a data source.

You can make an IBM Cognos PowerCube data source connection available by creating a connection to live Cognos Finance data.

When you create a package, select a specific IBM Cognos Finance submission. This does not limit reporting to that single submission. IBM Cognos Finance submissions can have different hierarchies within each submission. Selecting a submission designates the reporting view of the hierarchy and does not affect how data is calculated within IBM Cognos Finance.

You specify connection parameters when you create a data source or modify a data source connection. For more information, see Data Source Creation andAdd or Modify a Data Source Connection.

Table 1. IBM Cognos Finance data source connection parameters
Parameter	Description
Server name	Enter the name of the IBM Cognos Finance server.
Port number	Enter the port number of the IBM Cognos Finance server. Use the port number that is specified on the IBM Cognos Finance Server Configuration page. The default is 8800.
Signon	Select the namespace to use for authentication.