Cognos 10.2 Single Sign On

[kanthi15]

Hello All,

We have two systems... Cognos and a custom .Net application. We would like to introduce a single sign on for these two systems. Also, instead of using user name and password, we would like to use the users ID card certificate to log them in. Can any of you give me ideas on how we can achieve this... We cannot use active directory and we do not have Cognos SDK.

Please help us out... Thanks in advance...

[bdbits]

You can create custom authentication providers and use that as your authentication source. You will need the SDK to develop the authentication provider. I do not have a copy at hand, but I am fairly certain the SDK includes documentation on how to create the provider. If not there are separate documents you can find with a search.

You can find information on installing custom providers at the following URL.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_10.2.1/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.inst_cr_winux.10.2.1.1.doc/t_customauthentication_process-element.html%23CustomAuthentication_process-element?lang=en

[Raghuvir]

hi Kanthi,

Please find the below link. i hope it will be helpful for u.

http://queryvision.com/enabling-single-sign-on-for-cognos-connection-with-active-directory/

Regards

[deadsea]

Like others have stated, this is achievable only via SDK by writing on custom authentication provider. However, if purchasing the SDK license is not in the budget, you can purchase COTS solution (custom made for you - so yeah not really COTS) which will basically be pre-compiled binaries and deploy that in your environment since you dont need SDK license to use the precreated CAM provider. Unfortunately, I am not aware of the costs for these to options so you will need to investigate this with IBM and few vendors.

Hope this helps.