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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 24, 2018

Cognos to Infosphere Data Lineage - Pre-set our own default filter, flow relationships btw assets, and hide properties window

Our organization uses Cognos Reports and Infosphere for ETL and lineage. Our over 2000 business users need to know where their data is coming from, they don't care about the details of how it got there, jobs, views etc.. They only care to know the source. Among them are executives and directors as well as more senior users. We want to limit the number of clicks that need to take place before getting to this information.

The ETL we use is designed in such a way that only operational data and impacted assets should be able to be selected to get the entire source to the report lineage.

In order to achieve this, we need to be able to pre-select the type of filter, the flow, and the types of relationships between assets, and have the "do not display this dialog next time" pre-selected.

The result we are expecting: Right click from Cognos Report and get the infosphere lineage.

I am requesting to be able to configure the lineage by choosing the options for our entire user base and be able to bypass the lineage properties window altogether.