Cognos direct link to report without username or password

Question

I have Cognos report that i want it when clicking on it's URI to get direct into it without requesting the username and password

any suggestion about methods that could be used ?, i have no problem to make the URI use default username and password but not sure how would be possible

Many Thanks!!

Alexey Baturin · Answer 1 · 2014-07-11T16:34:42.880

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Try this Create very special user. VERY limited. Then add to your repors's link something like

   &CAMNamespace=<Your Namespace>&CAMUsername=<Your user>&CAMPassword=<Password>

It's rather old method. May not work in modern Cognos

edited Jul 11 '14 at 16:34

answered Jul 11 '14 at 16:21

Alexey Baturin

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didn't work told me AAA-AUT-0011 Invalid namespace was selected. – user3734290 Jul 12 '14 at 00:10
We've got integrated login, so I didn't need the username and password part, but I was getting a namespace prompt that I wanted to get rid of. This helped. Thanks! – Brian Cauthon Nov 12 '14 at 15:35

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '14 at 03:55

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You should allow anonymous access to your server.

answered Jul 11 '14 at 03:55

Alexey Baturin

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is there another way than that? i just want this specific report – user3734290 Jul 11 '14 at 12:09
Anonymous is a risky thing to enable. You can however control anonymous users with the 'Anyone' user. Put reports accessible by 'Anyone' in a folder that is just off your root folder in cognos. Set root with read/traverse for anyone, then set the folder for Anyone reports with read/execute/traverse permissions. Anyone users will only see this one report. – Damienknight Jul 14 '14 at 13:29

Cognos direct link to report without username or password

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