Configuring IBM Cognos to Use IBM Cognos Series 7 Namespace

You can configure IBM® Cognos® components to use an IBM Cognos Series 7 namespace as the authentication provider. Users are authenticated based on the authentication and signon configuration of the IBM Cognos Series 7 namespace.

An IBM Cognos Series 7 namespace is required if you want to use IBM Cognos Series 7 PowerCubes and Transformer models in IBM Cognos Analytics. You must configure the namespace before you load the Transformer models.

Note: You cannot use an IBM Cognos Series 7 Local Authentication Export (LAE) file for authentication with IBM Cognos components.

You can configure IBM Cognos components to use multiple IBM Cognos Series 7 authentication providers. All IBM Cognos Series 7 namespaces must use the same primary IBM Cognos Series 7 Ticket Server. Otherwise, you can receive errors or be prompted for authentication more than one time. To maintain performance, also ensure that the ticket server is running.

If you change the configuration information that is stored in the directory server that is used for IBM Cognos Series 7, you must restart the IBM Cognos service before the changes take effect in the IBM Cognos installation.

A user must be in at least one Access Manager user class to log on to IBM Cognos components.

Procedure

  1. Configure a Series 7 namespace
  2. Enable secure communication to the directory server used by the IBM Cognos Series 7 namespace, if required
  3. Enable single signon between IBM Cognos Series 7 and IBM Cognos