A deprecated feature is one that is being replaced by a newer version or a better implementation. Cognos intends to discontinue the use of the feature and provides recommendations for adapting to this change over multiple releases.
Listed below are deprecated features.
In all shipped versions of Cognos ReportNet and Cognos 8 including Cognos 8.2, the following behavior has been enabled by default.
Multiple security filters defined within Framework Manager on metadata imported from SAP BW sources are combined using 'AND' logic, effectively an intersection of a particular user's permissions. This behavior is contradictory to corresponding behavior on relational data sources where similar filters are combined using 'IN' and 'OR' (union) logic to facilitate cases where users belong to one or more group and require a union of their permissions. The current default behavior for SAP BW datasources has been determined to be a product defect and will be changed in the Cognos 8.3 release to align with the behavior of relational data sources. In the Cognos 8.1 Mr2 and Cognos 8.2 releases, it will be possible to get the union of filters behavior by modifying the following switches in the qfs_config.xml configuration file. Under <provider name="OlapQueryProvider" libraryName="oqp">, add the following new <parameter> element:
<parameter name="ORingSecurityFiltersWhenUserBelongsToMultipleGroups" value="true"/>
When multiple security filters are defined in the Data Security setting in Framework Manager for a query subject, if a user belongs to more than one user group associated with these filters, the effect of this switch is to perform a union of these filters instead of an intersection. For example, if a user Joe belongs to a corporate group allowing him to see data for Asia, Europe, and America, and also belongs to a regional group allowing him only to see data for Europe, the effect of the switch will be to let Joe see data for Asia, Europe, and America (as compared to just Europe) when logging on Cognos 8 and authoring or running a report. Note that security filters that are based on other security filters in the Data Security settings for a query subject continue to be intersected, just as before, independent of whether or not the new switch is activated.
As of Cognos 8.3, this behavior will become the new default for SAP BW metadata in Framework Manager. There will be no change to the behavior of security filters applied on relational sources. The switch will continue to be available and can be set to false by your administrator if required to maintain existing application behavior.
IQD's generated by Framework Manager will continue to be supported in this Cognos 8 release, but will not be enhanced. Cognos will deprecate support for IQD's generated by Framework Manager in the next major release of Cognos 8. Cognos 8 Transformer will continue to support IQD's generated by Impromptu in the next major release.