New session parameters

[Eromac]

I changed the authentication namespace from AD to Series 7. In AD had configured some items to get AD info as session parameter. Example: the city field - the value is l; now want to extract the description field from Access Manager, but need the value or the exact name of this property to use it as session parameter in FM  ???

[MFGF]

Hi,

I'm not sure that this is possible if you are using a native Access Manager authentication source.  However, Access Manager uses a modified LDAP namespace, so you might have more success if you use the C8 native LDAP authentication provider type to point to the Access Manager namespace.

Just a thought,

MF.

[Eromac]

The problem is that we dont use LDAP. I found another way, that is creating user classes and then using the CAMIDList macro, but don't like it

[MFGF]

Hi,

Where does your Access Manager namespace reside?  By default Cognos used to ship Sun One Directory Server with Access Manager, which is an LDAP environment.  The only other options I can think of are that your AM namespace is held within AD, or else you are using an LAE file to host your AM namespace, which is not a robust or secure authentication source.

MF.

[jwilliamstd]

I need to write a filter based on a user role.

Say for example

If ( users is a member of accessX ) then 1st filter condition
else 2nd filter condition.

Can I use CAMIDList for that. I'm using the group name from LDAP server in our server.

Thanks.
                   

[dionpaul]

I need to perform a similar function as jwilliamstd.

We use the user classes for data level security and without completely chaning our security structure which we are planning in the next year or so, I need to be able to provide certain users with full access to all data and other users with access based on the user classes in Access Manager #CSVIdentityNameList()#

Example:  If currently logged on user is a member of a specific user class, say 'Report Administrators' then SQL to produce all records, else filter data by user class list.

Thanks in advance for any assistance.