Configuring multitenancy settings
Multitenancy provides the capability to support multiple
customers or organizations (tenants) by using a single deployment
of an application, while ensuring that the users belonging to each
tenant can access only the data that they are authorized to use. Such
applications are called multi-tenant applications. IBM® Cognos® Business
Intelligence (BI) provides capabilities that make it easier to administer
and secure multi-tenant applications.
The following diagram shows how the Cognos BI multitenancy capabilities isolate
access to objects in your content store. Users can access only the
objects that they are authorized to access within each tenant grouping.
Figure 1. Content store configured to use the Cognos
BI multitenancy capabilities
In this example, the users would have access to the following objects:
- Users belonging to Tenant 1 can access object_1, object_2, and object_3.
- Users belonging to Tenant 2 can access object_3, object_4, object_5, and object_6.
Note: The system administrator can access all objects in the
content store.
Before you can use IBM Cognos multitenancy, you must modify your configuration. Multitenancy properties that you specify for a specific namespace override any multitenancy properties that you set globally.
To configure multitenancy, you must perform the following tasks: