By default, IBM®
Cognos® Analytics
allows anonymous access. If you want to use security in your IBM
Cognos Analytics
environment, you must disable anonymous access and configure IBM
Cognos Analytics
to use an authentication provider.
Procedure
- In the IBM Cognos Configuration Explorer window,
click Security >Authentication > Cognos.
- Click the Value box for Allow
Anonymous Access, and select False.
- Right-click Authentication, and
click New Resource > Namespace.
- In the Name box, type a name for
your authentication namespace.
- In the Type list, click the appropriate
namespace type and then click OK.
The
new authentication provider resource appears in the Explorer window,
under the Authentication component.
- In the Properties window, for the Namespace
ID property, specify a unique identifier for the namespace.
- From the File menu, click Save.