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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

by Dustin Adkison
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
318 pages
6h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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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.

Managing security

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 ...

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