Reviewing the security settings (Cognos® Analytics)

When the predefined roles are created during the content store initialization, the Everyone group is a member of the System Administrators role. All users have full access to the content store. To limit access for users, add trusted users to the Analytics Administrator Role, and then remove the group Everyone from its membership.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the IBM Cloud Pak® for Data web client.
  2. From the menu, select My instances.
  3. On the Provisioned instances tab, locate a cognos-analytics-app instance.
  4. From the action menu, select Manage access.
  5. Verify that at least one user is in the Analytics Administrator Role.
  6. Log out of Cloud Pak for Data and log in to Cognos Analytics as the Administrator you assigned to the Cognos Analytics instance.
  7. In Cognos Analytics, browse to Manage > People > Accounts and select the Cognos Analytics namespace.
  8. Browse to System Administrators in the options menu, click View members.
    Confirm that only the Administrators that you want to have system access are listed here.