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Configuring Portal Services 

Portal Services provides a set of Cognos portlets that you can use in IBM Cognos Connection and in other portals. You can use the portlets to navigate, search, and view IBM Cognos reports in your working environment. Other users can view IBM Cognos information without needing to know how to use IBM Cognos products.

For more information, see the Administration and Security Guide.

Portal Services is installed automatically with IBM Cognos 8 components. In a distributed environment, it is included with the Application Tier Components. The installation includes the deployment files for

For some deployments of Portal Services, you must modify some Portal Services property settings and prepare the IBM Cognos environment to support the other portal.

When used in another portal, Portal Services can authenticate users in only one namespace. If IBM Cognos 8 components are configured with more than one namespace, you must install a separate gateway for each namespace that will be used to authenticate portal users. You must configure each gateway to use the appropriate namespace and then configure the deployed portlets to use that gateway.

After you configure the required properties, you must deploy the Cognos portlets to the other portal. For more information, see the Administration and Security Guide.

To use Portal Services with IBM Cognos 8 components, do the following:

      

Specify the location of the applications.xml file, if required.

      Install and test the portlets on the other portal.

For more information, see the Administration and Security Guide.

      

Configure security for the other portal environment.