Custom Authentication Provider Developer

Introduction
This document is intended for use with the IBM® Cognos® Software Development Kit, which allows you to manage IBM Cognos processes and implement custom reporting solutions by using the cross-platform Web services, libraries, and programming interfaces provided with the IBM Cognos Software Development Kit. As a developer, you can use the Software Development Kit to create and modify reports and queries, schedule and deploy reports and other objects, and administer IBM Cognos Analytics servers and security.
What's New?
This section contains a list of new, changed, and deprecated features for this and previous releases of IBM Cognos Custom Authentication Provider. It will help you plan your upgrade and application deployment strategies and the training requirements for your users.
Authentication Providers
Authentication providers give access to authentication sources. By configuring an authentication provider in IBM Cognos Analytics, you define an authentication namespace.
Developing a Custom Authentication Provider
You can develop your own authentication provider using the Custom Authentication Provider API to implement custom authentication methods, or to integrate with the methods not natively supported by your existing provider.
Development of a single sign-on authentication provider
A single sign-on authentication provider supports the use of environment variables to authenticate a user. The modification of the JDBCSample sample program to support single sign-on authentication is described here.
Troubleshooting
This section describes known issues that you may encounter when working with the Custom Authentication Provider API, and includes suggestions for resolving them.
Example: Creating a Custom Logon Page
Administrators can create their own custom logon page to bypass the default logon page provided by the IBM Cognos Analytics server. This custom page is a form that accepts the user's logon parameters and passes them to the IBM Cognos server for authentication. The user is then redirected to IBM Cognos Connection.
Notices