IBM® Cognos® 8 Planning - Contributor Administration Guide

Chapter 3: Security
40 Contributor
Rights
Application Containers
Privileges
You can grant the right to
Access ● upgrade or import a Contributor application from an earlier
Publish Container Access
version of Contributor
● link to an existing application
● create an application
● create a script that can be run by a database administrator to
create an application. This option is used when the Generate
Scripts option is set to Yes in the Admin Options table
● remove an application from the Planning environment
● assign or remove an application from an application folder
You can grant rights for administering publish containers
● link to a publish container
● create a publish container
● create a script that is run by a database administrator to create
a publish container.
This option is used when the Generate Scripts option is set to
Yes in the Admin Options table.
Publish containers are created the first time someone publishes.
The administrator must have the right to create a publish container
in order to publish.
For publish jobs to be processed, the publish container must be
added to a job server cluster or job server.
To modify a publish datastore connection you must have the
Global Administration right Modify connection document.