IBM® Cognos® 8 Planning - Contributor Administration Guide

Chapter 3: Security
Members of the required users, groups, or roles now have access schedule and run Contributor
macros in IBM Cognos Connection.
Assign Scheduler Credentials
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All scheduled macros, and some jobs, run under the identity setup in the IBM Cognos scheduler or
the scheduler credentials for other schedulers. This is because macros and jobs that run in the
background cannot prompt the user for authentication information. Scheduler credentials are also
used to lookup Contributor email addresses from workflow pages.
Scheduler credentials are associated with an authenticated user, which can include more than one
user logged on to different namespaces. The user, or group or role that they are a member of, must
have rights granted in the Access Rights window to run macros, jobs, and lookup email addresses.
If there are users from multiple namespaces in your application, you must have scheduler credentials
associated with those namespaces. When the Validate Users job is run, the scheduler credentials
must be associated with all the namespaces you imported users from. If you are logged on to only
one namespace, users that belong to other namespaces are considered invalid.
Macros that are run directly from the Contributor Administration Console through user interaction
run under the currently logged on user account and do not use the scheduler credentials. Macros
that are triggered through events run under the identity used to create the event, not the scheduler
credentials.
Only users who have the Planning Rights Administrator capability can modify the scheduler creden-
tials. By default, the scheduler credentials are associated with the user who opens the Contributor
Administration Console for the first time, if that user is a Planning Rights Administrator. If that
user is not a Planning Rights Administrator, a message states that the credentials are invalid, or do
not exist, and a Planning Rights Administrator must update the scheduler credentials.
Note that the following Contributor jobs use the scheduler credentials:
● Validate Users
● Reconcile
Steps
1. In the Systems Settings pane, click the Scheduler Credentials tab, and click Update.
2. Click Logon.
Initially, the Logon As button is disabled.
3. Enter the User ID and password to be used as the scheduler credentials and click OK.
4. If your logon is successful, the Logon button is disabled, and the Logon as button is enabled.
This enables you to log on to different namespaces.
You must provide scheduler credentials for all namespaces that users of the applications are
imported from.