Christmas present for us -- Cognos EP 8.3 is out.
A question for me now is: What will happen to Access Manager, what's his future? I've heard rumors about discontinuation of development\support in near future, I know that some readers have better internal access, so could you please clarify the issue somehow?
So we can now use Cognos namespace to capture planning specific user groups and roles and link group members directly into company's Active Directory (not via OS Signons). That'd ease security system. We can do it since EP 8.2, but it was buggy and 8.3 beat some of our bugs.
But we need to migrate lot's of existing customer AM namespaces to Cognos group and such. On current project we've had a task of doing things the other way (Cognos namespace -> AM) and it turned to be rather easy with SDK for exporting from Cognos namespace and VBS for importing them into AM. Usual disclaimer: if you want these scripts, drop me a line.
It's easily done -- will Cognos automate it (that's second question for people with internal access) or we'll be writing it ourself? Not a big deal, a day's work, but why redoing it anyway?
PS: they store user SearchPath in nodestate these days instead of guid ). And write corresponding names in P_REFERENCEDCAMOBJECT table. No more need for view publish to get usernames!
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Why Cognos didn´t created a replacement of Access Manager to Cognos 8 namespaces if they want to discontinue Series 7 ?
Hi, Pablo.
You can use Cognos 8 BI built-in cognos namespace for replacing User Classes and whole AM functionality.
You’d need a connection to a LDAP provider (think Active Directory) for users and them organize them into group and define security using these groups.
And you can use Cognos 7 Namespace (Acess Manager) as a user details source, but you’d better use Active Directory direcly.
Hi Ykud,
With Access Manager it is very ease to navigate on user lists, userclasses, copy permissions between users.
Now with cognos namespace it is very difficult to do the same without using SDK. Using the cognos connection interface to do security maintenance is a hard work.
That’s why I claim for an Access Manager version for Cognos 8 Namespace.
Hi Pablo.
I totally agree with you, that it’s easier to administer users via Access Manager than via Connection Web Interface. But that’s mostly about web-browser client vs local application. On the other side, with Cognos Namespace you can forget about necessity to import AD users or add new manually — it’s all managed by ldap provider.
Yet I’ve received some emails on the topic showing that people are developing thick clients (like AM) for Cognos Namespace, using SDK. So maybe Cognos’d better write an sdk connection from AM to cognos namespace and it’ll be a win-win for all.