The IBM Cognos report packages that you install on the IBM Cognos system contains the report specifications for the IBM® applications, organized into folders. For example, the folder for
Interact is named "Interact Reports" and the reports specifiations are physically located in that folder on the IBM Cognos system.
For Campaign,
eMessage, and
Interact, you can configure permissions for groups of reports based on the folder structure in which they are physically stored on the IBM Cognos system.
After reporting is installed, to make the IBM® system aware of the report folders on the IBM Cognos system, you run the
Sync Report Folder Permissions option located on the
Settings menu in the
IBM® interface. This option connects to the IBM Cognos system to determine which folders are present. It then creates an entry in the user permissions lists for the
Campaign partitions. The entry, named
Reports, appears in the permissions lists between the
Logging and the
System Tables entries. When you expand it, the report folder names are listed and now represent permissions.
The default setting for the new permissions is "not granted." Therefore, after you run the Sync Report Folder Permissions option, you must configure permissions for the report folders. Otherwise, no one has access to the IBM Cognos reports anymore.