Configuring the Collaboration Discovery URI

You can configure IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos Workspace to use IBM Connections for collaborative decision-making. Integration with IBM Connections allows business users to collaborate while creating or viewing reports, performing analysis, or monitoring workspaces. Users have access to IBM Connections activities from within IBM Cognos Workspace and to the IBM Connections homepage from within IBM Cognos BI and IBM Cognos Workspace.

The Collaboration discovery URI specifies the IBM Connections server to use as the collaboration provider. When a URI is specified, collaboration-related support is added to IBM Cognos BI as follows:

  • a link is added to the Cognos Connection Welcome page. If the user has access to the IBM Connections homepage, the link is named Access my social network and links the user to the homepage. If the user has access to IBM Connection activities, but not the homepage, the link is named My Activities and links the user to the activities page.
  • a link to the IBM Connections homepage is added to the Launch menu in Cognos Connection
  • a link to the IBM Connections homepage is added to the Actions menu in IBM Cognos Workspace
  • the Collaborate menu button is added on the workspace application bar in IBM Cognos Workspace. This allows the user to create or view a workspace activity in IBM Connections.

To access the IBM Connections homepage and activities page, the administrator must enable the Collaborate capability. For more information, see Secured Functions and Features.

Procedure

  1. Start IBM Cognos Connection.
  2. Click Launch, IBM Cognos Administration.
  3. On the Configuration tab, click Dispatchers and Services to view the list of dispatchers.
  4. From the toolbar, click the set properties - configuration button.
  5. Click the Settings tab.
  6. For the Environment category, Collaboration discovery URI, specify the URI as follows:

    http://server_name:port_number/activities/serviceconfigs

    For example, http://server_name:9080/activities/serviceconfigs

    where server_name represents the server name where IBM Connections is installed.

  7. Click OK.
Parent topic: Server Administration