Setting access permissions for an entry includes creating
new permissions or updating existing permissions.
About this task
You can specify access permissions for all entries in IBM® Cognos® 8. Examples of such entries are reports, queries, analyses,
packages, agents, metrics, namespaces, groups, users, or dispatchers.
You can reference entries from different namespaces. If you plan
to set permissions that reference multiple namespaces, you must log
on to each of those namespaces before you start your task. Otherwise,
you do not have full administrative rights for the entries that you
want to modify. To administer security, you must have set policy
permissions.
- In IBM Cognos Connection, locate the entry for which
you want to set access permissions.
- In the Actions column, click Set properties for
the entry.
- In the Set properties page, click the Permissions tab.
- Choose whether to use the permissions of the parent entry or specify
permissions specifically for the entry:
- To use the permissions of the parent entry, clear the Override
the access permissions acquired from the parent entry check box,
and if you are prompted to use the parent permissions, click OK.
- To set access permissions for the entry, select the Override
the access permissions acquired from the parent entry check box.
- If you want to remove an entry from the list, select its check
box and click Remove.
Note: If you want to select all entries,
select the check box at the top of the list in the upper-left corner.
Clear the check box to deselect all entries.
To specify the
entries for which you want to grant or deny access, click Add, and then choose how to select entries: - To choose from listed entries, click the appropriate namespace,
and then select the check boxes next to the users, groups, or roles.
- To search for entries, click Search and in the Search string field, type the phrase that you want to search. For search
options, click Edit. Find and click the entry you want.
- To type the name of entries that you want to add, click Type and type the names of groups, roles, or users using the following
format, where a semicolon (;) separates each entry: namespace/group_name;namespace/role_name;namespace/user_name;
Here is an example: Cognos/Authors;LDAP/scarter;
- Click the Right Arrow button and when all the entries that you
want are in the Selected entries field, click OK.
Note: To remove entries from the Selected entries list, select them and
click Remove. To select all entries in a list, click the check
box in the upper-left corner of the list.
To make the user entries
visible, click Show users in the list.
- For each entry in the list, in the box next to the list, select
or clear check boxes to specify which type of access you want to grant
or deny.
- Click Apply. In the Permissions column, an icon
is displayed next to the user, group, or role. This icon represents
the type of access granted or denied to the entry.
- If you want to replace the existing permissions of the child entries
with the permissions you set for this entry, in the Option section,
select the Delete the access permissions of all child entries
check box. This option is displayed only with the entries that are
containers. You can use it to restrict access to a hierarchy of entries.
- Click OK.
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