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Analyze Jira Data in Cognos Analytics
Use CData Connect Cloud to connect to Jira Data from Cognos Analytics and analyze live Jira data.
Cognos Analytics, powered by IBM Watson®, empowers users to cleanse and establish connections with their data while creating visualizations. When integrated with CData Connect Cloud, users gain immediate, real-time connectivity between cloud-based data sources and Cognos Analytics, facilitating data management, visualization, analytics, and more. This article provides step-by-step guidance on connecting to Jira via CData Connect Cloud and subsequently analyzing Jira data within Cognos Analytics.
NOTE: These instructions require Cognos Analytics 11.2.4 or higher
CData Connect Cloud offers a dedicated cloud-to-cloud interface for Jira, enabling users to perform real-time analysis on Jira data within Cognos without the need to replicate data to a natively supported database. Equipped with built-in optimized data processing capabilities, CData Connect Cloud efficiently directs all supported SQL operations, including filters and JOINs, directly to Jira. This harnesses server-side processing to promptly provide the requested Jira data.
About Jira Data Integration
CData simplifies access and integration of live Jira data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:
- Gain bi-directional access to their Jira objects like issues, projects, and workflows.
- Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional actions like changing issues status, creating custom fields, download or uploading an attachment, modifying or retrieving time tracking settings, and more.
- Authenticate securely using a variety of methods, including username and password, OAuth, personal access token, API token, Crowd or OKTA SSO, LDAP, and more.
Most users leverage CData solutions to integrate Jira data with their database or data warehouse, whether that's using CData Sync directly or relying on CData's compatibility with platforms like SSIS or Azure Data Factory. Others are looking to get analytics and reporting on live Jira data from preferred analytics tools like Tableau and Power BI.
Learn more about how customers are seamlessly connecting to their Jira data to solve business problems from our blog: Drivers in Focus: Collaboration Tools.
Getting Started
Configure Jira Connectivity for Cognos Analytics
Connectivity to Jira from Cognos Analytics is made possible through CData Connect Cloud. To work with Jira data from Cognos Analytics, we start by creating and configuring a Jira connection.
- Log into Connect Cloud, click Connections and click Add Connection
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- Select "Jira" from the Add Connection panel
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Enter the necessary authentication properties to connect to Jira.
To connect to JIRA, provide the User and Password. Additionally, provide the Url; for example, https://yoursitename.atlassian.net.
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- Click Create & Test
- Navigate to the Permissions tab in the Add Jira Connection page and update the User-based permissions.
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Add a Personal Access Token
If you are connecting from a service, application, platform, or framework that does not support OAuth authentication, you can create a Personal Access Token (PAT) to use for authentication. Best practices would dictate that you create a separate PAT for each service, to maintain granularity of access.
- Click on your username at the top right of the Connect Cloud app and click User Profile.
- On the User Profile page, scroll down to the Personal Access Tokens section and click Create PAT.
- Give your PAT a name and click Create.
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- The personal access token is only visible at creation, so be sure to copy it and store it securely for future use.
With the connection configured, you are ready to connect to Jira data from Cognos Analytics.
Connect to Jira from Cognos Analytics
The steps below outline connecting to CData Connect Cloud from Cognos Analytics to analyze live Jira data.
Download the CData Connect Cloud JDBC Driver
- Download and install the CData Connect Cloud JDBC Driver: https://www.cdata.com/cloud/clients/download.aspx#jdbc.
- Copy the JAR file (cdata.jdbc.connect.jar) from the installation directory (e.g., C:\Program Files\CData\JDBC Driver for CData Connect\lib) to the "drivers" folder in your Cognos Analytics installation directory.
Configure the Connection to CData Connect Cloud
- Open IBM Cognos and navigate to Manage > Data server connections.
- Click the icon to add a data server.
- Select CData Connect Cloud.
- Set JDBC URL to the appropriate connection string. For example:
jdbc:connect://AuthScheme=Basic; - Set Driver class name to "cdata.jdbc.connect.ConnectDriver"
- Create and store authenticate credentials by selecting an authentication method
- Set Username to your CData Connect Cloud username (e.g., user@mydomain.com)
- Set Password to the PAT you previously generated.
- Click Test connection to confirm that the connection succeeds.
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At this point, you are ready to analyze and visualize Jira data in Cognos Analytics. For more information about using Cognos Analytics, please refer to the Cognos Analytics documentation.
Live Access to Jira Data for Analytics
Now you have a direct, cloud-to-cloud connection to live Jira data from Cognos Analytics. You can create new visualizations, build reports, and more — without replicating Jira data.
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