Log On

IBM® Cognos® software supports authenticated and anonymous user access. To use IBM Cognos software as an authenticated user, you must successfully log on. During the logon process, you must provide your credentials, such as user ID and password, as required by your organization. Anonymous users do not log on.

Tip: If you want to see a summary of your logon information for the current session, in the portal, click My Area Options, My Preferences and then click the Personal tab. This is not available to anonymous users.

Procedure

  1. In the portal, click Log On.
  2. If the namespace Logon page appears, in the Namespace box, click the namespace you want to use.
  3. Click OK and type your user ID and password.
  4. Click OK.

    Your session starts.

Parent topic: IBM Cognos Connection