Hiding interactive activities of unknown users

Tenant administrators might not have permissions to view all users in the IBM® Cognos® environment.

About this task

System administrators can hide the activities of users that the tenant administrator is not allowed to see from his or her view.

Procedure

  1. Start IBM Cognos Administration.
  2. On the Configuration tab, click Dispatchers and Services.
  3. In the toolbar on the Configuration page, click the Set properties – Configuration icon Set properties – configuration.
  4. Click the Settings tab.
  5. Click the Edit for the Advanced settings property.
  6. Enter the COGADMIN.filterInteractiveActivitiesOfUnknownUsers setting and specify a value of true for this setting.

    Note that this value is case sensitive.

  7. Click OK.
  8. To apply the value, you might need to restart the IBM Cognos services.

Results

Tenant administrators can now view interactive activities of known users only.