View or Change a User Profile

You can view or change user profiles. You can also delete specific items in the user's profile, such as the content of My Folders or pages.

This may be useful in the following situations:

The content in the user's My Folders or pages is taking up so much space that performance is affected. You want to delete some or all of the content.
You want to view a user profile before deleting it to ensure that you do not delete any important content.

If a user was deleted in your authentication provider, the user no longer appears in IBM® Cognos® software and you cannot change the user profile.

You can only see the profiles of users who logged on at least once. When users log on, a date is displayed in the Modified column.

To view a user profile, delete content, or change content, you must have traverse permissions for the user account and any other folder that must use Public Folders. You must also have write permissions for the entry and the parent of the entry that you want to delete.

You can change the user profile for individual users, but not for groups or roles.