Managing licenses
System administrators need to track IBM® Cognos® Analytics license usage.
The license information in IBM Cognos Analytics shows the licenses that were used by individual users with their last login. Users' changed capabilities are not reflected in their licence usage until the users log in again. Also, for existing customers the license usage information is incomplete until all users log in again.
A license usage report is generated when the licenses page in Refresh button is clicked, or after a product restart.
is opened for the first time, when theThe basic report contains information about license usage by user. Some customers might want to do additional reporting, for example, on license usage by tenant.
IBM Cognos Analytics has a few types of licensed roles, each of them associated with different capabilities. Refer to this article (https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10735275) to view the capabilities and permissions matrix that the IBM Cognos Analytics license model is based on.
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