Manual Cognos Asset Updates

Since you will be responsible for maintaining your standalone Cognos instance, you must define your own Cognos security. The IBM® Control Center Monitor Cognos security allowed for widgets and custom reports to use keyword account.parameters to reference the authentication parameters that IBM Control Center Monitor had implemented.

Example 1: The IBM Control Center Monitor provided Size Over Time by Day widget in the ICC Cognos instance, used the check account.parameters.isServerRestricted but the importStandaloneCognos.bat/sh migration script changed the code in that widget to not check account.parameters and just assumes that the user is not server restricted.

Example 2:You change the checking of the account.parameters timezone to just use UTC timezone. Because of this, the ICC widgets no longer honor timezone settings, server group restrictions and DVG restrictions. Once you implement your own security, you can modify the ICC widgets to continue to check these values from your account records.

Similarly, if you created your own custom widgets or reports that used account.parameters, you will have to adjust them to refer to your account records (once implemented) or your widgets and reports will not work.