Cognos Namespace Migration

Motio's Namespace Migration product facilitates the migration of Cognos Content and configuration from
one Authentication Namespace to another.

About Cognos Security

In IBM Cognos, an authentication provider provides access to a (generally external) authentication
source (e.g. Series 7 Access Manager, LDAP, Active Directory, etc). By configuring an authentication
provider in IBM Cognos, you define an “authentication namespace.”

Each user, group and role in an authentication namespace has a unique identifier in Cognos called a
"CAMID".

Virtually all Cognos content will have references to one or more CAMIDs. Examples of this include:

most objects in Cognos have :
- an owner property which will refer to the CAMID of the owning user.
- a policy set, which lists the CAMIDs of users, groups and roles are entitled to
  the Cognos object (and their level of access)
all content in a user's My Folders area is associated with a user's CAMID
each user's preferences and portal tabs are associated with their
CAMID
Framework Model Object Security - modelers may restrict access to Namespaces, Query Subjects and Query Items based on groups / roles (references their CAMID).
Transformer Models may have Custom Views to enforce security on cubes. These custom views are configured as visible to certain users, groups & roles (references their CAMID).

When you migrate to a different authentication namespace, all users, groups and roles from that new
namespace will have different CAMIDs (even if they are semantically the same user,
group or role).

When your Cognos Content is at stake, trust the experts to ensure a safe, secure, and complete
migration. The Motio Namespace Migration product can make namespace migration a seamless and worry free process.

Motio asks the key questions to help devise and implement a roadmap specific to your migration needs:

What mapping method will be used?
Where will groups reside?
Which users will be migrated?
What about orphans?
Which of the 140 object types do you want to migrate?

By utilizing Motio's Namespace Migration tool, you can automate an otherwise time-intensive and error
prone process.

Whether you’re migrating from Series 7 Access Manager to LDAP or Active Directory, consolidating
multiple existing Active Directory servers, or migrating user content from development to test, the Motio’s
Namespace Migration service seamlessly handles the move.

Motio Namespace Migration offers the following:

Audit all objects
Create and display a policy matrix
Display the permissions and policies for each user on each object
Display the members of each Cognos group and role
Display all objects within a user's My Folders
Locate and match users in the target namespace
Migrate all My Folders content
Migrate all Preferences (locale, output format, rows per page, etc.)
Migrate all Portal Pages
Migrate all Jobs & Schedules
Migrate all Memberships
Migrate all Policies & Permissions
Migrate all Capabilities