Reports | Integrations | Cognos® [version]

Read-only. Specifies the fully-qualified name of the Java™ class that creates the integration interface used to connect to the application specified by the Integration Name property.

Default value

com.unica.report.integration.cognos.CognosIntegration

Domain

Description

Specifies the fully-qualified company domain name in which your Cognos® server is running. For example, myCompanyDomain.com.

If your company uses subdomains, the value in this field must include the appropriate subdomain as well.

Default value

[CHANGE ME]

Valid Values

A string no longer than 1024 characters.

Portal URL

Description

Specifies the URL of the IBM® Cognos® Connection portal. Use a fully qualified host name, including the domain name (and subdomain, if appropriate) that is specified in the Domain property. For example: http://MyReportServer.MyCompanyDomain.com/cognos<version>/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi

You can find the URL in IBM® Cognos® Configuration at: Local Configuration > Environment .

Default value

http://[CHANGE ME]/cognos<version>/cgi-bin/cognos.cgi

Specifies the URL of the IBM® Cognos® Content Manager. Use a fully qualified host name, including the domain name (and subdomain, if appropriate) specified in the Domain property. For example: http://MyReportServer.MyCompanyDomain.com:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch

You can find the URL in Cognos® Configuration at: Local Configuration > Environment .

Default value

http://[CHANGE ME]:9300/p2pd/servlet/dispatch

Note that 9300 is the default port number for the Cognos® Content Manager. Be sure that the port number specified matches that used in the Cognos® installation.

Specifies whether the IBM® Cognos® application is using the IBM® Authentication Provider, which means it relies on the Marketing Platform for authentication.

Default value

anonymous

Valid Values

anonymous: means authentication is disabled.

authenticated: means that the communications between the IBM® system and the Cognos® system are secured at the machine level. You configure a single system user and configure it with the appropriate access rights. By convention, this user is named "cognos_admin."

authenticatedPerUser: means that the system evaluates individual user credentials.

Authentication namespace

Description

Read only. The namespace of the IBM® Authentication Provider.

Default value

Unica

Authentication user name

Description

Specifies the login name for the reporting system user. The IBM® applications log in to Cognos® as this user when Cognos® is configured to use the Unica® Authentication provider Note that this user also has access to IBM® EMM.

This setting applies only when the Authentication mode property is set to authenticated .

Default value

cognos_admin

Authentication datasource name

Description

Specifies the name of the data source for the reporting system user that holds the Cognos® login credentials.

Default value

Cognos

Enable form authentication

Description

Specifies whether form-based authentication is enabled. You set this property to True when either of the following is true:

When the IBM® EMM is not installed in the same domain as the IBM®Cognos® applications.

When IBM®Cognos® is accessed using an IP address (within the same network domain) instead of the Fully Qualified Hostname (which is being used to access the IBM® EMM applications), even if both the IBM® EMM applications and the IBM®Cognos® installation are on the same machine.

However, when the value is True, the login process to Cognos® Connection passes the login name and password in clear text and therefore is not secure unless IBM®Cognos® and the IBM® EMM are configured to use SSL communication.

Even with SSL configured, the user name and password appear as clear text in the HTML source code when you "view source" in a displayed report. For this reason, you should install IBM® Cognos® and IBM® EMM in the same domain.