Logging in

IBM® Cognos® Analytics with Watson supports authenticated and anonymous user access. To use the application as an authenticated user, you must successfully log in.

To log in, provide your credentials, such as user ID and password, as required by your organization. Anonymous users do not need to log in.

If multiple namespaces are configured for your Cognos Analytics environment, you can log in to the different namespaces in the same session. Each namespace requires its own credentials.

Procedure

  1. In the login page, select the namespace that you want to log in to.
  2. Type your user ID and password, and click Log in.
    Your session starts.
  3. To log in to a different namespace in the same session, from the personal menu Icon to use with personal settings in the application bar, click Log into an additional namespace.

What to do next

You log out to end your session. Even if you used multiple namespaces in the session, you log out only once. To log out, from the personal menu Icon to use with personal settings in the application bar, click Log out. If you close your web browser without logging out, your session ends.