Enable Controller Administrators and Users to View Standard Reports in Cognos Viewer

To view standard reports, Controller Administrators and Controller Users require execute and traverse permissions for the Cognos® Viewer capability. This procedure is only applicable if you use IBM Cognos Analytics as the reporting server.

About this task

Perform the steps in this task on the IBM® Cognos Analytics server.

Procedure

  1. In IBM Cognos Connection, in the upper-right corner, click Launch, IBM Cognos Administration.
  2. On the Security tab, click Capabilities.
  3. Locate the Cognos Viewer capability, click its actions button, and then click Set properties.
  4. On the Permissions tab, click Add.
  5. Click the Cognos namespace.
  6. Select the check boxes for the Controller Administrators and Controller Users.
  7. Click the right-arrow button, and when the entries appear in the Selected entries box, click OK.
  8. Click OK again.
  9. Select the check boxes for the Controller Administrators and Controller Users roles.
  10. In the box next to the list, select the Execute and Traversecheck boxes.

    The icons for Execute and Traverse appear in the Permissions column.

  11. Click Apply.