IBM Cognos Business Intelligence artifacts

IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence on Cloud is a suite that provides tools to create reports and dashboards and build interactive analyses. A content author can develop new BI views and add them to the deployment archive provided in the default content pack.

The IBM Cognos Business Intelligence artifacts are contained within the reporting folder. The folder contains the following zip files:

  • IBMPMQ(DQM) Model.zip is the Cognos Framework Manger model.
  • IBMPMQ(DQM).zip is the Cognos package that contains reports, dashboards, and visualizations.
  • Images.zip contains images used in reports and dashboards.

Contents of the IBM Cognos package

The IBM Cognos package contains the following:

Table 1. Package artifacts
File name Description

Maintenance View Dashboard

Provides information on actual failure or stoppage events of the machine. There are various profiles shown on the chart that are single day event and predicted date range event information. The Summary List report shows the health of the asset, the count of various events that were reported for the asset during the selected date range (for example, the number of failures), and the maintenance activities that were performed on the asset during the selected date range.

Summary View Dashboard

Shows the state of the machine based on its average health score, the overall health of the machine since it was commissioned, and the top six predictors that contributed to the current state of the machine. The summary provides details of each machine for the selected date range.

Summary View Dashboard_Workspace

Provides users with the flexibility to add and remove widgets.

Drill Through Reports folder

Contains the following reports that are triggered from the drill though links provided in the parent reports and dashboards. These reports are not to be executed directly.

  • Reusable Object Library: This for designing the header and footer in all reports. It is used as a layout reference object in the header and footer section of all reports and dashboards.
  • Health Score and Probability Report and Top Factors Report: Provides information on individual asset or machine. It renders Top six profile influence of a resource, last day health score, last maintenance activity performed on machine, location of resource. They are linked as drill through targets from the Maintenance View and Summary View dashboards.
  • Summary View Dashboard_Workspace_HealthScoreAverage and Summary View dashboard_Workspace_Prompts: Used as widgets in Summary View Dashboard_Workspace.
  • viz Bundles: Used in the reports and dashboards, they include vis.ibm.com.Gantt4Top6, vis.ibm.com.GanttChartResourceHealth, vis.ibm.com.GanttChartwithDateNow, vis.ibm.com.HealthScoreChart, vis.ibm.com.HealthScoreOverTimeChart, vis.ibm.com.lineEquipmentHealth_NoData, vis.ibm.com.LineThreshold