SivaSivaSivaSiva
Programmer
Hello,
Our requirement is to access Cognos Reports from our applications through menus.Without entering into application, no one can access cognos reports.When the user clicks the menu, we just display the reports to the user.The corresponding link of that report, we will store it in the database. These reports are predefined reports.
Now the major problems are
i) User enters into application by using their username and password maintained in our application database.Cognos ReportNet support said, Cognos cannot authenticate users from application database.we have to use some LDAP,NTLM thrid party providers for authentication.Now we need to maintain username and passwords in two places.
ii) When the user clicks menu, if we use NTLM as third party provider, Cognos ReportNet login is coming.We don't want this page.What we want is , we pass username,password and namespace also.We tried Quicklogon in SimpleFrame.java example in SDK.This is working fine.But when i try that samething in one jsp page, because of sessions, after entering into Cognos ReportNet also,the login page prompts.Can anyone tried this?If so please tell me the procedure how to do it?
iii) NamedLicence concept.We don't understand what is nameduser licence concept.Do we need to register the user names to Cognos.In this case, if i say my usernames as dummy1,dummy2 , will they accept? How can i findout at a particular howmany users are logged in into ReportNet or one particular user is logged in or not?
iv) We have our own batch scheduler(Control M) in our project.That Scheduler should execute all the pre-defined reports at the end of the day.If it executes all my 100 reports at the sametime, will it user 100 licence at that time?
v) Cognos says, eventhough if we buy 100 licence, they are not restricting only 100 users.It is our responsibility to control only 100 users at a particular time.How can i check, more than 100 users are using Cognos ReportNet? And how to control only 100 users?
These queries are pending for last 3 months and we are getting correct answer from anyone.Finally i decided that this is the only place to get the answer.
Regards,
Siva
Our requirement is to access Cognos Reports from our applications through menus.Without entering into application, no one can access cognos reports.When the user clicks the menu, we just display the reports to the user.The corresponding link of that report, we will store it in the database. These reports are predefined reports.
Now the major problems are
i) User enters into application by using their username and password maintained in our application database.Cognos ReportNet support said, Cognos cannot authenticate users from application database.we have to use some LDAP,NTLM thrid party providers for authentication.Now we need to maintain username and passwords in two places.
ii) When the user clicks menu, if we use NTLM as third party provider, Cognos ReportNet login is coming.We don't want this page.What we want is , we pass username,password and namespace also.We tried Quicklogon in SimpleFrame.java example in SDK.This is working fine.But when i try that samething in one jsp page, because of sessions, after entering into Cognos ReportNet also,the login page prompts.Can anyone tried this?If so please tell me the procedure how to do it?
iii) NamedLicence concept.We don't understand what is nameduser licence concept.Do we need to register the user names to Cognos.In this case, if i say my usernames as dummy1,dummy2 , will they accept? How can i findout at a particular howmany users are logged in into ReportNet or one particular user is logged in or not?
iv) We have our own batch scheduler(Control M) in our project.That Scheduler should execute all the pre-defined reports at the end of the day.If it executes all my 100 reports at the sametime, will it user 100 licence at that time?
v) Cognos says, eventhough if we buy 100 licence, they are not restricting only 100 users.It is our responsibility to control only 100 users at a particular time.How can i check, more than 100 users are using Cognos ReportNet? And how to control only 100 users?
These queries are pending for last 3 months and we are getting correct answer from anyone.Finally i decided that this is the only place to get the answer.
Regards,
Siva