Use the Cognos® Configuration user interface to configure
the Cognos-based Tivoli® Common Reporting engine and
use the same user repository as the Tivoli Common
Reporting application.
This procedure is recommended for large user repositories.
About this task
If you installed your Tivoli Common
Reporting on
a single computer, the Tivoli Common
Reporting VMMProvider
is used for LDAP by
default, and no additional LDAP configuration
is required.
Procedure
- Open the IBM® Cognos Configuration by
running:
- In the Explorer navigation on the
left, go to Security, and right-click the Authentication section.
- Select .
- Type in a name, select the registry type from the expandable
list, and click OK. New user
registry is added to the list.
- Select the entry that you created, and edit the fields
required for configuration. You must provide different
values depending on the type of user registry selected. For details
on how to configure the user registry, see Configuring IBM Cognos Components to Use an Authentication
Provider of IBMCognos information
center.
- Set Use external identity? to True to
enable single sign-on from the console to the reporting engine systems.
- Set External identity mapping to (uid=${environment("REMOTE_USER")}).
If you use your email address instead of a user ID to log on to the
console, set the value to: (mail=${environment("REMOTE_USER")}).
- Select Environment in the navigation
tree and ensure that host names are set to be fully qualified.
- Right-click the entry that you created, and select Test to
verify it before saving.
- Select Cognos entry, and edit the Allow
anonymous access? field, changing it to False.
- Save the new configuration.
Results
Important: When you configure LDAP, the reporting
portlet can no longer be used by users that are not contained in the
configured LDAP and
do not have the tcrPortalOperator role assigned.
and 
c10_location/bin64/tcr_cogconfig.sh.