Troubleshooting
Problem
This document describes how to make Custom User Properties for LDAP available to Cognos BI Components.
Environment
- IBM Cognos BI
- LDAP or Active Directory Authentication Source
Resolving The Problem
You can use arbitrary user attributes from your LDAP authentication provider (ADS as well) in Cognos BI components. To configure this, you must add these attributes as custom properties for the LDAP namespace. The custom properties are available as session parameters through Framework Manager.
Steps:
Steps:
Name | Value |
ntUserDomainId | ntUserDomainId |
- On every computer where Content Manager is installed open Cognos Configuration
- In the Explorer window, under Security, Authentication, click the LDAP namespace.
- In the Properties window, click in the Value column for Custom properties and click the Edit button.
- In the Value - Custom properties window, click Add.
- Click the Name column, and enter the name you want Cognos BI components to use for the session parameter.
- Click the Value column, and enter the name of the account parameter in your LDAP authentication provider.
- Repeat the preceding two steps for each custom parameter.
Example for using the NT User ID: - Click OK.
- From the File menu, click Save.
- Restart the Cognos BI Service
- Open your Framework Manager Project
- Edit the Query Subject Definition
- Click the Filters tab
- Click Add to Insert a Filter
- Click the Parameters tab
- The new Session Parameter is called $account.parameters.<Name>, e.g.: #$account.parameters.ntUserDomainId#
Example for such a filter:
[Namespace].[QuerySubject].[NTUserID] = #sq($account.parameters.ntUserDomainId)#
Related Information
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Modified date:
20 March 2020
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