Disabling multitenancy

To disable multitenancy, you must remove the multitenancy authentication properties on all Content Manager computers where they were configured.

All tenant IDs must be removed from all objects in the content store. If all tenant IDs are not removed after disabling multitenancy, the application behavior might be unpredictable.

Procedure

  1. Open IBM® Cognos® Configuration.
  2. Choose whether to disable multitenancy settings globally for all namespaces, or for a specific namespace.
    • To disable multitenancy for all namespaces, in the Explorer window, for the Security category, click Authentication.
    • To disable multitenancy for one namespace, in the Explorer window, for the Security category, click Authentication. Then, click the namespace that you want to configure.
  3. Under Multitenancy, click the edit button for the Tenant ID Mapping property.

    The Tenant ID Mapping box is displayed.

  4. Delete the values for the Pattern or the Provider class property.

    If custom properties were specified for the namespace, you must delete them as well.

  5. Test your configuration to verify if multitenancy properties are deleted.
    1. Right-click either Authentication or the namespace (depending on your choice in step 2) and click Test.
    2. Log on using the credentials of the system administrator, and click OK.
    3. Click the Details button and read the information that is displayed.

    The tenant ID should not be displayed.

  6. From the File menu, click Save.
  7. Restart the IBM Cognos service.

What to do next

After multitenancy is disabled, the system administrator must review and update the policies on objects and then update the tenancy to public.