retrieveCredential(namespace)

Allows a user who is authenticated in a namespace to retrieve the authentication credentials for that namespace. These credentials can then be used to connect to a datasource that uses the same authentication mechanism as the namespace. This mechanism allows the user to avoid having to authenticate with the datasource.

The following limitations apply:

  • A user can only retrieve their own credentials.
  • The credentiasl are encrypted and can only be accessed with the correct csk that can decrypt it.

Signatures

Java and Apache Axis
 public XmlEncodedXML retrieveCredential(java.lang.String namespace)
C# .NET
 public xmlEncodedXML retrieveCredential(string namespace)

References

Part of the following method sets:
Implemented by the following services:

The services that implement the terminateSessions method, along with the associated SOAP actions, are listed in the following table.

Table 1. Services implementing the terminateSessions method.

Service

SOAP Action
saCAMService

http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/prod/cognos/sacamsrvc-auth/201404/

What's new

New in Version 10.2.2 — Connecting to a datasource using namespace credentials

This method was added.

Input parameters

Use the following parameters when calling this method.

namespace
Specifies the namespace that the user is authenticated in.

This argument

  • is of type string

    is encoded as type xs:string

Return values

This method returns the following values.

credential
The credential that will be passed to the datasource.

This result