Insight User Authentication
I have an open PMR and the technote that addresses it tells me "not to allow annonymous access" as a workaround. I see how to disable annonymous in Cognos Admin, however, I am not ready to use an authentication service (like LDAP, etc.). Can I set up a few users to access Insight reports, etc. without using an authentication service? If I disable annonymous access, do I use the "Everyone" group or create a new one? How do I do this?
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I have an open PMR and the technote that addresses it tells me "not to allow annonymous access" as a workaround. I see how to disable annonymous in Cognos Admin, however, I am not ready to use an authentication service (like LDAP, etc.). Can I set up a few users to access Insight reports, etc. without using an authentication service? If I disable annonymous access, do I use the "Everyone" group or create a new one? How do I do this? Hi Kim, Would you mind clarifying which technote you are referring to? To the best of my knowledge enabling anonymous access is the only way to allow a user to access the web app without having an authentication service installed. Unfortunately, neither Cognos nor Insight allow you to create a named user. You may want to consider setting up a NTLM namespace if you are on Windows. |
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The Technote: https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21343199
The PMR is 23498 442 000 if you want to reference the issue |
Can you provide the RATLC id for the APAR?
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FYI. I have helped Kim resolved the issue. The technote was irrelevant as she was encountering a Cognos application firewall issue. To fix the issue, I had her run IBM Cognos Configuration, go to
To read more about Cognos application firewall, visit http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rentrpt/v1r0m1/index.jsp and search for "Cognos application firewall". |
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