Cognos Mobile capabilities

The IBM® Cognos® Mobile capabilities in IBM Cognos Administration are used to restrict access to IBM Cognos Mobile for users and administrators.

The Cognos Mobile capabilities include:

• Mobile

  This secured function is used to restrict access to Cognos Mobile for users. Only users, groups, or roles that have execute permissions for this secured function can log on to Cognos Mobile. When users who do not have the required permissions try to log on, they see an error message asking them to contact a Cognos BI administrator.

• Mobile Administration

  This secured feature of the Administration secured function is used to restrict access to the administration pages on the Mobile tab in Cognos Administration. Only users, groups, or roles that have execute permissions for this secured feature can access this tab to perform administration tasks, such as Mobile service configuration, for Cognos Mobile.

To simplify the process of setting access permissions for the Mobile and Mobile Administration capabilities, you can use the predefined roles Mobile Users and Mobile Adminsitrators that exist in the Cognos namespace in Cognos Administration. The Mobile Users role contains permissions that are needed for access to Cognos Mobile for regular users. The Mobile Adminsitrators role contains permissions that are needed for access to Cognos Mobile administrative functions on the Mobile tab in Cognos Administration. You can add users, groups, or roles from your organization directory to these roles and include these roles in your Cognos BI security policies. You can also ignore these roles, or delete them, and create your own security groups or roles to use for setting access permissions to Cognos Mobile.

Setting access permissions for the Mobile and Mobile Administration capabilities is one of the initial tasks that an administrator must perform when configuring Cognos Mobile. For more information, see Secured Functions and Features.