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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

Overview of this book

IBM Cognos is Business Intelligence software that enables businesses to fully utilize their maximum potential. It connects people with information from virtually any data source whenever and wherever they need it so that they can make better decisions, faster.Take the practical, hands-on approach to managing your reporting environment with "IBM Cognos Business Intelligence" - packed with coverage of all the latest features to truly help you maximize your potential.With this in-depth practical guide you will learn how to fully utilize IBM Cognos 10 so that your business can make smarter decisions, achieve better results and gain a deeper understanding of your company's data. You will learn about critical topics like Report Studio, Query Studio, Analysis Studio, Security and Administration as well as in-depth coverage of other features like Business Insight, Business Insight Advanced, and Active Reports, which were introduced with IBM Cognos 10.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing security


There are a few options to update security with MetaManager. The first option is using the Security Painter module. This module allows you to update security in bulk on objects, such as reports, report views, packages, folders, or any other Cognos Connection object.

To set the security on a set of objects, we will start by dragging-and-dropping the objects that we want to secure to the bottom section that says Objects to secure.

We next need to set the security that we want at the top. The reason they call it Security Painter is because we can take the security from one object and paint it onto other objects. We should start with the existing security of another object by dragging that object to the top area. For our example, we are going to drag the GO Sales and Retailers package to the top where it says Security to apply. When we do so, it will load the security from that GO Sales and Retailers model at the top. Refer to the following screenshot:

You can then select and...