Encrypt Temporary File Properties

Temporary files are used in IBM® Cognos® Analytics to store recently viewed reports and to store data used by the services during processing. You can change the location of the temporary files and you can choose to encrypt their content.

By default, IBM Cognos components store temporary files in the install_location\temp directory and the files are not encrypted.

For optimum security, deny all access to the temp directory, except for the service account used to start the IBM Cognos services. Read and write permissions are required for the service account.

Procedure

  1. Start IBM Cognos Configuration.
  2. In the Explorer window, click Environment.
  3. In the Properties window, for the Temporary files location property, specify the new location.
  4. If you require the content of temporary files to be encrypted, set the Encrypt temporary files property to True.
  5. Ensure that the user account under which IBM Cognos Analytics components run have the appropriate privileges to the temporary files location. For example:
    • on Microsoft Windows operating systems, full control privileges
    • on UNIX or Linux® operating systems, read-write privileges