BIP Security - Data Level Security / Init Blocks

Hello, I am using BIP 11.1.1.5. I am aware that in OBIEE data-level security can be implemented by placing permissions on a application role. However, I am wondering if this can be accomplished in BIP if I use a BI Analysis or SQL as the datasource for my data model. I have a catalog of 100 BIP reports and was wondering if I can implemented data-level security via the RPD. I am exploring the various options of executing this type of security. I already performed some research and found Oracle's whitepaper on Row Level Security with BI Publisher.
Another Question: Does session init blocks work with BIP? I flipped the switch for BIP security model to 'Oracle BI Server' on the Admin security page. Next, I went to the RPD in online mode and created a simple query inside a init block. However, when I logged into BIP I didn't see the variable from the session init block in the Manage Sessions window.
Thanks

Look at the below link..It has three options. this one is from veeravalli I believe..I personally like the second option if there are not many reports to work with.
cool-bi.com

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Object Level Security,Data Level Security&Row level Security

can anyone explain main difference between "Object Level Security,Data Level Security & Row Level Security " and how to implement.
Thanks in advance,
Kumar

Hi Kumar
Dashboards, Reports, Guided Navigation Links, Texts, briefing books are all Dashboard OBJECTS which are available at UI level of OBIEE..if you restrict them Say User 'A' wants to see 2 Dashboards and USer 'B' Wants to see 1 Dashboard....these settings & permission u r restricting in Object level called Object Level Security
lly datalevel security is restriction of Data.. consider the same above example and User 'B" wants to see 2-3 regions data where as User A will see only Single Region Data..which you will do/restrict at logical tables, using variables..
Row level security: http://groups.google.com/group/obiee-enterprise-methodology/browse_thread/thread/131ee938a5aefde0 refer this link, clearly explains you
Please mark Correct or helpful if this clears

Data Level Security OBIEE,PLEASE HELP

How can we implement data level security in OBIEE. For example, a Sales officer should only see data for his customers, similarly a Sales Manager should only be able to see data for Sales Officers working under him....
any help would be appreciated

Hi there are many blogs on data level security..
understand the concepts and try to implement, if you stuck up anywhere will help you out..
http://obieeblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/obiee-data-security-column-level-security/
Data level security in OBIEE

Data level Security for Oracle Apps as Source

Hi all
I need to implement Data level Security on Apps Users in OBIA
We are using Apps as source with Single sign On. I need to apply Data level security on Business Group Field.
We dont have users in OBI, we need to register apps users in OBI.
Could anybody tell me how to register Apps users in OBI???
OR tell me if you know some other way to implement D L Sec on Single sing On and Apps as source.
Thanks in avd
V P

You need to be creating your "business groups" as a group in the RPD, init blocks to retrieve the user business group at login. Filters in the Logical table sources to restrict data to relevant business groups only.
Presentation 'Web Cat' groups with the same name as the RPD groups so a user inherits membership automatically.
I'd suggest sourcing a vanilla OBIA rpd to see how it is implemented out of the box.

Data level Security with Oracle Apps as Source

Hi all
I am implementing Data level Security with Apps as Source(OLTP) on Single Sign On.(Oracle has provided the Vanila rpd & we are working on that)
I need to Filter data based on Business Group, Users are created in Apps and they are registered with some Responsibilities.
(for eg, OBI User CHINA is a Responsibility; Now he will get only Business Group ID for China)
I have created Groups in rpd with same name as the responsibility in Apps.
I have created Initialization Blocks from which I m getting only 1 business group ID for every :USER.(I tried the code in TOAD & I m getting the correct BG ID)
I have created Group in WEB with the same name as the Group name in rpd.
If I say show all Users and Groups in WEB, I m getting the APPS Users.
I hv Reloaded the server metadata files and restarted the BI Server/WEB Server also...
But in the Report, I m getting all the Business Group Ids,
Plz advice if I m doing something wrong.
ThanQ
Anand

You need to be creating your "business groups" as a group in the RPD, init blocks to retrieve the user business group at login. Filters in the Logical table sources to restrict data to relevant business groups only.
Presentation 'Web Cat' groups with the same name as the RPD groups so a user inherits membership automatically.
I'd suggest sourcing a vanilla OBIA rpd to see how it is implemented out of the box.

Alternative Data Level Security in OBIEE 11g

Gurus - Wanted to put it out there if there are alternatives ways of achieving data level security as opposed to going the route of creating blocks that initialize session variables which can be applied onto tables through roles in the RPD? The main reason for asking was to try and prevent performance impact of having a significant number of init blocks running when an user logs into the application.
Ganesh

VPD [Virtual Private Database] would be an alternative for this.

Order Management Data Level Security

Hi All,
I have worked on OBIEE standalone and implemented data level security from custom data warehouse but never worked on BI Apps.Currently I am working Order Management and trying to implement data level security but I have no clue which OOTB init block to use for it.When i check the Order Management Group's--> permission there is no filter condition on them which i am thinking there no data level security on OM may i thinking wrong.Here is req users must able to see data by Division and Region they belong to and I am trying use OOTB security option for it OR do i need to build custom init block and related keys in all the sales order fact tables to implement it.
Any documentation or links or information will be appreciated.
This might be silly question but I would find a way better way.Please let me know if you need any information.
Thanks

Forgot to mention :Soruce is Oracle EBS

EBS Data Level Security

We would like to implement Data Level Security on BI Apps 7963 with EBS R12.1.3.
Is "EBS Single Sign-on Integration" Initialization Block required to do so?
I also found "Authorization" need to modified SQL statement to adapt security for EBS. Is it right?
The default value seems for Siebel CRM system.
Can anyone confirm those questions?
Any response will be very appreciated.
Best Regards,
Roger

Hi,
1. Yes, you need to enable the Initialization Block "EBS Single Sign-on Integration" and leave the OOTB definition
2. You need to disable the Siebel "Authorization" Init Block and create a new one for EBS. You can find the SQL in the BI Apps 7.9.6.3 Bookshelf, section "Integrating Security for Oracle BI Applications", 2.6.1 Oracle BI Application Authorization for Oracle EBS
Hope this helps,
Tarik.

OBIEE BI Apps data level security involving multiple PeopleSoft Segments

Has anyone implemented OBIEE BI Apps data level security involving multiple PeopleSoft Segments and can provide some tips?
Our PeopleSoft security grants access by 2 segment combinations:
All Segment 3 (Department) and any Segment 6 (Project)
Specific Segment 6
Specific combinations of Segment 3 and Segment 6
In addition, there is a flag to indicate if the user also has access to payroll data. Payroll access is a subset of the general finance access.
We've got a security init blocks running successfully for general finance and payroll access. We've created Data filters on the Segments for general finance access and GL Account for payroll access. We designed dashboards to use Dept and Project from the Segments on the general finance dashboards and pull Dept and Project from GL Account for the payroll dashboards.
The problem is both data filters are being applied to the general finance dashboards since the joins behind the scenes on the general finance dashboards use GL Account.
Does anyone have a suggestion?

Business Intelligence Applications

Data level Security issue in obiee 11g

Hi,
We are trying to implement data level security, let me explain the issue
The requirement is, we have 7 schools and each school has one principle , there will be a Superdintent who has 3 schools under him. so now when each principle logs in to dashboard we have a prompt for school i.e Name of school in that prompt he should see only his school and even the data of that school only which are assigned to him, now when Superdintent logs in he should see all 3 schools in the prompt and data. I have gone through this link (http://www.rittmanmead.com/2012/03/obiee-11g-security-week-row-level-security/) but could not achieve.
We are able to achieve by writing SQL in BMM layer ( LTS Table) so where ever the table is used in dashboards the security is being applied and we are able to see what we want. We want to achieve this by application role, But when we are creating session variables and applying on Application Role its not working. We want to achieve this by using Application role because suppose in other dashboards when the table is not used or pulled in, it will not work.But if we do it using application role its applies to all dashboards and data is resticted. so that when principle or Superdintent logs in automatically its restricts the data.
Below is the SQL which we used in BMM LTS, its working fine. But when the same SQL is applied in Application Role it's not working.
SQL used in session variable -
select 'SCHOOL_CD1', school_cd1 from w_staff_d where empl_id ='VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.USER)'
and job_desc1 = 'Principal High School - KPI'
Any suggestions please ??
Thanks,
VRP

Hi,
I pasted the log view below by applying SET VARIABLE LOGLEVEL=2, DISABLE_CACHE_HIT=1;, ran this report by applying SQL in Session variable. Let me know if you want anything -
Thanks
[OracleBIServerComponent] [TRACE:2] [USER-0] [] [ecid: c9928ce086f2ff4f:4405c138:13a559973e0:-8000-000000000000f7e9] [tid: 128c] [requestid: 5e40000b] [sessionid: 5e400000] [username: weblogic] ############################################## [[
-------------------- SQL Request:
SET VARIABLE QUERY_SRC_CD='Report',SAW_SRC_PATH='/shared/Key Performance Analytics/Analysis/Climate and Culture/Analysis for total school suspensions',LOGLEVEL=2, DISABLE_CACHE_HIT=1; SELECT s_0, s_1, s_2, s_3, s_4, s_5, s_6, s_7, s_8, s_9, s_10, s_11 FROM (
SELECT
0 s_0,
"High School KPI"."- Date"."School Year" s_1,
"High School KPI"."- Grade"."Grade Level" s_2,
"High School KPI"."- School"."School Name" s_3,
"High School KPI"."- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" s_4,
"High School KPI"."- School Suspensions"."Count of Students Enrolled" s_5,
"High School KPI"."- School Suspensions"."Count of Students with Incidents" s_6,
CASE WHEN (CASE WHEN MAX("High School KPI"."- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END +(CASE WHEN (CASE WHEN MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END - CASE WHEN MIN("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE MIN("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY )END)=0 THEN CASE WHEN CASE WHEN MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END <0 THEN (CASE WHEN MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END *-1) ELSE CASE WHEN MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END END ELSE (CASE WHEN MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END - CASE WHEN MIN("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE MIN("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY )END) END /10))<0 THEN 1 ELSE 2 END s_7,
CASE WHEN (CASE WHEN MAX("High School KPI"."- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END - CASE WHEN MIN("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE MIN("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY )END)=0 THEN CASE WHEN CASE WHEN MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END <0 THEN (CASE WHEN MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END *-1) ELSE CASE WHEN MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END END ELSE (CASE WHEN MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END - CASE WHEN MIN("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE MIN("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY )END) END s_8,
CASE WHEN MAX("High School KPI"."- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 10 ELSE MAX("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END s_9,
CASE WHEN MIN("High School KPI"."- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE MIN("- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY ) END s_10,
REPORT_AGGREGATE("High School KPI"."- School Suspensions"."% of Students Suspended" BY "High School KPI"."- Date"."School Year") s_11
FROM "High School KPI"
WHERE
(("- Discipline Action"."Discipline Action Code" = 'Suspension') AND ("- Date"."School Year Desc" = VALUEOF("school_year_desc")))
) djm ORDER BY 1, 2 ASC NULLS LAST
[2012-10-17T18:36:55.000+00:00] [OracleBIServerComponent] [TRACE:2] [USER-23] [] [ecid: c9928ce086f2ff4f:4405c138:13a559973e0:-8000-000000000000f7e9] [tid: 128c] [requestid: 5e40000b] [sessionid: 5e400000] [username: weblogic] -------------------- General Query Info: [[
Repository: Star, Subject Area: High School KPI, Presentation: High School KPI
[2012-10-17T18:36:55.000+00:00] [OracleBIServerComponent] [TRACE:2] [USER-18] [] [ecid: c9928ce086f2ff4f:4405c138:13a559973e0:-8000-000000000000f7e9] [tid: 128c] [requestid: 5e40000b] [sessionid: 5e400000] [username: weblogic] -------------------- Sending query to database named SPA (id: <<62064>>), connection pool named Initialization Block Connection Pool: [[
WITH
SAWITH0 AS (select T30351.SCHOOL_YEAR_DESC as c2,
T26564.GRADE_LONG_DESC as c4,
T26686.SCHOOL_NM as c5,
T29835.STDNT_WID as c6,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY T30351.SCHOOL_YEAR_DESC, T29835.STDNT_WID ORDER BY T30351.SCHOOL_YEAR_DESC DESC, T29835.STDNT_WID DESC) as c7
from
W_GRADE_LEVEL_D T26564 /* KPI_W_GRADE_LEVEL_D */ ,
W_SCHOOL_YEAR_D T30351 /* KPI_W_SCHOOL_YEAR_D */ ,
W_ORGANIZATION_D T26686 /* KPI_W_ORGANIZATION_D */ ,
W_STDNT_ENROLL_SCHOOL_F T29835 /* KPI_W_STDNT_ENROLL_SCHOOL_F */
where ( T26564.GRADE_LEVEL_WID = T29835.GRADE_LEVEL_WID and T26686.ORGANIZATION_WID = T29835.ORGANIZATION_WID and T29835.SCHOOL_YEAR_WID = T30351.SCHOOL_YEAR_WID and T30351.SCHOOL_YEAR_DESC = '2011-2012' and (T26564.GRADE_LONG_DESC in ('Grade 10', 'Grade 11', 'Grade 12', 'Grade 9')) and (T26686.SCHOOL_NM in ('Central Sr', 'Como Park Sr', 'Harding Sr', 'Highland Park Sr', 'Humboldt Secondary School', 'Johnson Sr', 'Washington Technology Secondary')) ) ),
SAWITH1 AS (select count(distinct case D1.c7 when 1 then D1.c6 else NULL end ) as c1,
D1.c2 as c2,
count(distinct D1.c6) as c3,
D1.c4 as c4,
D1.c5 as c5
from
SAWITH0 D1
group by D1.c2, D1.c4, D1.c5),
SAWITH2 AS (select sum(D1.c1) over (partition by D1.c2) as c1,
D1.c2 as c2,
D1.c3 as c3,
D1.c4 as c4,
D1.c5 as c5
from
SAWITH1 D1),
SAWITH3 AS (select T30647.SCHOOL_YEAR as c3,
T26564.GRADE_LONG_DESC as c4,
T26686.SCHOOL_NM as c5,
T26023.STDNT_WID as c6,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY T30647.SCHOOL_YEAR, T26023.STDNT_WID ORDER BY T30647.SCHOOL_YEAR DESC, T26023.STDNT_WID DESC) as c7
from
W_DISCIPLINE_ACTION_D T29975 /* KPI_W_DISCIPLINE_ACTION_D */ ,
W_GRADE_LEVEL_D T26564 /* KPI_W_GRADE_LEVEL_D */ ,
W_KPI_QTR_DAY_D T30647,
W_ORGANIZATION_D T26686 /* KPI_W_ORGANIZATION_D */ ,
W_STDNT_DISCIPLINE_F T26023 /* KPI_W_STDNT_DISCIPLINE_F */
where ( T26023.DISCIPLINE_ACTION_WID = T29975.DISCIPLINE_ACTION_WID and T26023.ORGANIZATION_WID = T26686.ORGANIZATION_WID and T26023.DATE_WID = T30647.DATE_WID and T26023.GRADE_LEVEL_WID = T26564.GRADE_LEVEL_WID and T29975.DISCIPLINE_ACTION_CD = 'Suspension' and (T26564.GRADE_LONG_DESC in ('Grade 10', 'Grade 11', 'Grade 12', 'Grade 9')) and (T26686.SCHOOL_NM in ('Central Sr', 'Como Park Sr', 'Harding Sr', 'Highland Park Sr', 'Humboldt Secondary School', 'Johnson Sr', 'Washington Technology Secondary')) ) ),
SAWITH4 AS (select count(distinct case D1.c7 when 1 then D1.c6 else NULL end ) as c1,
count(distinct D1.c6) as c2,
D1.c3 as c3,
D1.c4 as c4,
D1.c5 as c5
from
SAWITH3 D1
group by D1.c3, D1.c4, D1.c5),
SAWITH5 AS (select sum(D1.c1) over (partition by D1.c3) as c1,
D1.c2 as c2,
D1.c3 as c3,
D1.c4 as c4,
D1.c5 as c5
from
SAWITH4 D1)
select distinct case when D1.c2 is not null then D1.c2 when D2.c3 is not null then D2.c3 end as c1,
case when D1.c4 is not null then D1.c4 when D2.c4 is not null then D2.c4 end as c2,
case when D1.c5 is not null then D1.c5 when D2.c5 is not null then D2.c5 end as c3,
case when D1.c3 = 0 then NULL else D2.c2 * 100.0 / nullif( D1.c3, 0) end as c4,
D1.c3 as c5,
D2.c2 as c6
from
SAWITH2 D1,
SAWITH5 D2
where ( nvl(D1.c2 , '1') = nvl(D2.c3 , '1') and nvl(D1.c2 , '2') = nvl(D2.c3 , '2') and nvl(D1.c4 , '1') = nvl(D2.c4 , '1') and nvl(D1.c4 , '2') = nvl(D2.c4 , '2') and nvl(D1.c5 , '1') = nvl(D2.c5 , '1') and nvl(D1.c5 , '2') = nvl(D2.c5 , '2') )
order by c1, c2, c3
[2012-10-17T18:36:55.000+00:00] [OracleBIServerComponent] [TRACE:2] [USER-18] [] [ecid: c9928ce086f2ff4f:4405c138:13a559973e0:-8000-000000000000f7e9] [tid: 128c] [requestid: 5e40000b] [sessionid: 5e400000] [username: weblogic] -------------------- Sending query to database named SPA (id: <<62434>>), connection pool named Initialization Block Connection Pool: [[
WITH
SAWITH0 AS (select T30351.SCHOOL_YEAR_DESC as c2,
T26564.GRADE_LONG_DESC as c4,
T26686.SCHOOL_NM as c5,
T29835.STDNT_WID as c6,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY T30351.SCHOOL_YEAR_DESC, T29835.STDNT_WID ORDER BY T30351.SCHOOL_YEAR_DESC DESC, T29835.STDNT_WID DESC) as c7
from
W_GRADE_LEVEL_D T26564 /* KPI_W_GRADE_LEVEL_D */ ,
W_SCHOOL_YEAR_D T30351 /* KPI_W_SCHOOL_YEAR_D */ ,
W_ORGANIZATION_D T26686 /* KPI_W_ORGANIZATION_D */ ,
W_STDNT_ENROLL_SCHOOL_F T29835 /* KPI_W_STDNT_ENROLL_SCHOOL_F */
where ( T26564.GRADE_LEVEL_WID = T29835.GRADE_LEVEL_WID and T26686.ORGANIZATION_WID = T29835.ORGANIZATION_WID and T29835.SCHOOL_YEAR_WID = T30351.SCHOOL_YEAR_WID and T30351.SCHOOL_YEAR_DESC = '2011-2012' and (T26564.GRADE_LONG_DESC in ('Grade 10', 'Grade 11', 'Grade 12', 'Grade 9')) and (T26686.SCHOOL_NM in ('Central Sr', 'Como Park Sr', 'Harding Sr', 'Highland Park Sr', 'Humboldt Secondary School', 'Johnson Sr', 'Washington Technology Secondary')) ) ),
SAWITH1 AS (select count(distinct case D1.c7 when 1 then D1.c6 else NULL end ) as c1,
D1.c2 as c2,
count(distinct D1.c6) as c3,
D1.c4 as c4,
D1.c5 as c5
from
SAWITH0 D1
group by D1.c2, D1.c4, D1.c5),
SAWITH2 AS (select sum(D1.c1) over (partition by D1.c2) as c1,
D1.c2 as c2,
D1.c3 as c3,
D1.c4 as c4,
D1.c5 as c5
from
SAWITH1 D1),
SAWITH3 AS (select T30647.SCHOOL_YEAR as c3,
T26564.GRADE_LONG_DESC as c4,
T26686.SCHOOL_NM as c5,
T26023.STDNT_WID as c6,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY T30647.SCHOOL_YEAR, T26023.STDNT_WID ORDER BY T30647.SCHOOL_YEAR DESC, T26023.STDNT_WID DESC) as c7
from
W_DISCIPLINE_ACTION_D T29975 /* KPI_W_DISCIPLINE_ACTION_D */ ,
W_GRADE_LEVEL_D T26564 /* KPI_W_GRADE_LEVEL_D */ ,
W_KPI_QTR_DAY_D T30647,
W_ORGANIZATION_D T26686 /* KPI_W_ORGANIZATION_D */ ,
W_STDNT_DISCIPLINE_F T26023 /* KPI_W_STDNT_DISCIPLINE_F */
where ( T26023.DISCIPLINE_ACTION_WID = T29975.DISCIPLINE_ACTION_WID and T26023.ORGANIZATION_WID = T26686.ORGANIZATION_WID and T26023.DATE_WID = T30647.DATE_WID and T26023.GRADE_LEVEL_WID = T26564.GRADE_LEVEL_WID and T29975.DISCIPLINE_ACTION_CD = 'Suspension' and (T26564.GRADE_LONG_DESC in ('Grade 10', 'Grade 11', 'Grade 12', 'Grade 9')) and (T26686.SCHOOL_NM in ('Central Sr', 'Como Park Sr', 'Harding Sr', 'Highland Park Sr', 'Humboldt Secondary School', 'Johnson Sr', 'Washington Technology Secondary')) ) ),
SAWITH4 AS (select count(distinct case D1.c7 when 1 then D1.c6 else NULL end ) as c1,
count(distinct D1.c6) as c2,
D1.c3 as c3,
D1.c4 as c4,
D1.c5 as c5
from
SAWITH3 D1
group by D1.c3, D1.c4, D1.c5),
SAWITH5 AS (select sum(D1.c1) over (partition by D1.c3) as c1,
D1.c2 as c2,
D1.c3 as c3,
D1.c4 as c4,
D1.c5 as c5
from
SAWITH4 D1),
SAWITH6 AS (select case when max(D1.c1) = 0 then NULL else max(D2.c1) * 100.0 / nullif( max(D1.c1), 0) end as c11,
case when D1.c2 is not null then D1.c2 when D2.c3 is not null then D2.c3 end as c12
from
SAWITH2 D1,
SAWITH5 D2
where ( nvl(D1.c2 , '1') = nvl(D2.c3 , '1') and nvl(D1.c2 , '2') = nvl(D2.c3 , '2') and nvl(D1.c4 , '1') = nvl(D2.c4 , '1') and nvl(D1.c4 , '2') = nvl(D2.c4 , '2') and nvl(D1.c5 , '1') = nvl(D2.c5 , '1') and nvl(D1.c5 , '2') = nvl(D2.c5 , '2') )
group by case when D1.c2 is not null then D1.c2 when D2.c3 is not null then D2.c3 end )
select D2.c11 as c1,
D2.c12 as c2
from
SAWITH6 D2
order by c2
Edited by: 965968 on Oct 17, 2012 11:49 AM

Data Level Security issue

Hello Gurus:
I am having a problem with Data Level security.
I copied my Production RPD and Webcat in Test, changed connection pool DSN and user/passwords.
Now the problem is, a user who has same rights in Prod and Test, is seeing properly in Production, but sees nothing in Test.
I am using initialization block from Siebel CRM Application. So customers are assigned to users based on their responsibility from S_RESP and S_USER.
based on that, users can see the list of customers. Authentication is LDAP, same server for production and Test.
Now, a user sees properly assigned list in Production, but not in Test. I dont know how to solve it. I searched query logs and stuff, but couldnt find anything.
Please help me how should I investigate this issue.
Thanks.
Vinay

Thanks for quick reply Stijn:
Here are my inputs..
1)"they see nothing"? means the dont see any customers in drop down. This is data level and not related to column or subject area. The only filter I use is
"ATLAS Reports"."Dim - Accounts Hierarchy".LVL1ANC_ID = VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION."ORGS")
This filter is applied to Customer hierarchy and couple of sensitive facts.
The users are able to see all products because filter is not applied. I disabled the filter, and users could see everything. But I cant disable this in Production.
2) What is the physical sql generated by the report? Set the loglevel of a user to a higher level in order to seet this.
I am not able to set higher loglevel because i dont see the user in repository. All I see is GROUP, and they are assigned to particular groups based on GROUP session variable. Then filters are set on particular groups. How do I set logging level at Group level?
3)Can you copy the query and run it against the test database. What results do you get?
I can not see the query because of above reason.
4)Does the user get the proper groups assigned? Yes. I put the session variable in title view to verify this.
5) Are S_USER and S_RESP in Test equal to S_USER and S_REPS in Production? Yes.
Let me know if you need more information.
~Vinay.

Data Level security for specific Users

Hi,
Can you please suggest some ideas on by-passing the Data Level security for specific users or specific group?
Currently, we have data level security defined on a group permissions for one group and for people belonging to another group, the security should not apply and they should see entire data.
But, key thing here is that, the user belongs to both the groups.
Any ideas helps.
Thanks,
Chandu.

So you are saying you want a user to belong to a group with data-level security filters, but you don't want the filters to apply to that user?
Why are they in the group then?
Are the data filter defined with variables or are the hard-coded?
If variables, you may be able to put logic in initialization block to set the variable appropriately for specific users.
I'd rethink the security model - when I define data level security filters, I tend to force users to only belong to a single group/role.

Data level Security in Essbase

I have an requirement to implement data level security in Essbase. For ex: A user can only see those data which are from Asia region or an user will be able to see those data which are from America.
Asia and America are defined in my location dimension.
Please tell me how to do it?
Regards,
Suman

to make your security maintenance easier, I would suggest putting the users into groups and assigning the filters to the group. If you do it at the indivual level, the user can only have one filter assigned to them, but each group could have a different filter. So for someone who should see Americas and Asia have a group calle America and one called asia. put the user into both groups and assign the america filter to the first group and asia filter to the second group

Group Level Data Level Security not working

I'm trying to test the data level security at the group level.
Here's what I did
1. Went to the security -> Groups -> Permissions -> Filters
2. In Name added the Fact table on which I want to filter.
3. Selected "Enable"
4. In Filter Column I added a filter on a column in the dimension. (I didn't use any session variables in the filter)
When I create an answers query with the column from the dimension (Which I used in filter) and fact from the fact table where I defined the filter, the filter is not applied..
Am I missing something in the creation of filters?
Thanks in Advance.
Rama.

Hi,
If the user is member of both user defined and Administrator group no filter will be applied to them because Administrator group will take precedence and no filter can be applied to Administrator.Even if you ooen Administrator group, you will see that permission tab is disabled for Administrator group.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Sandeep

Dashboard prompts are getting cached and not working as per data level security

Hi,
Version: OBIEE 11.1.1.5 BP2
We have dashboard prompts that have data level security defined in RPD - Content tab of an LTS.
After clearing cache, the dashboard prompt applies the security properly. When another user who has a different security defined, is seeing the same prompt values on clicking the drop down of a prompt and also when they click search prompt popup.
Issue is, for second user, I do not even see cached query in the session logs. Tried applying the DISABLE_CACHE_HIT=1 in the prompt sql results, no luck.
But reports are applying the security correctly, issue is with prompts alone.
Any thoughts on this?
Thanks,
Rajesh

Just for others reference: We disabled caching on the table to avoid this issue.

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