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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Report Studio => Topic started by: rajvivan on 19 May 2015 01:04:24 PM

Title: Why cant we delete Cognos Namespace?
Post by: rajvivan on 19 May 2015 01:04:24 PM
Can anyone please explain it clearly the below concept?
Why Cant we delete the Cognos Namespace. I read somewhere "The namespace is always active."
Also Please explain the concept of "distribution lists, and contacts" which namespace contains?

Reference URL:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSRL5J_1.0.1/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.10.1.1.doc/c_cognos_namespace.html%23Cognos_namespace
Title: Re: Why cant we delete Cognos Namespace?
Post by: bdbits on 19 May 2015 05:59:01 PM
The Cognos namespace is built in to the product, and is the foundation for Cognos security. As far as I know there is no possiblity of even trying to remove it, and it would make no sense to try.

Users are external to the Cognos namespace, e.g. they might come from Active Directory. In order to give users permissions to capabilities, roles, objects, etc. within Cognos, you must associate them to objects and roles that reside in the Cognos namespace. So, you attach them to Cognos groups that have the desired permissions.

This is all done within the administrative interface, and to me anyway is actually easier to see and grasp visually than to read about it.
Title: Re: Why cant we delete Cognos Namespace?
Post by: rajvivan on 22 May 2015 03:29:54 AM
Thank you so much sir!!
Title: Re: Why cant we delete Cognos Namespace?
Post by: MFGF on 22 May 2015 06:20:17 AM
Quote from: rajvivan on 22 May 2015 03:29:54 AM
Thank you so much sir!!

Is this another interview question?