What is Row level security in SSAS?

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What is row level security in SSAS?
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Row Level Security not working for SAP R/3

Hi Guys
We have an environment where the details are as mentioned below:
1. Crystal Reports are created using Open SQL driver to extract data from SAP R/3 using the SAP Integration Kit.
2. The SAP roles are imported in Business Objects CMC.
3. Crystal Reports are published on the Enterprise as well.
3. Authorization objects are created in SAP R/3 and added as required for the row level security as mentioned in the SAP Installation guide as well. The aim is when the user logs into the Infoview and refreshes the report he should only see data that he is meant to so through the authorization objects.The data security works very much fine when the reports are designed directly on the table but when the reports are built on the Business View it doesnt work hence the user is able to see all data.
Any help in this issue is greatly appreciated.
Thanks and Regards
Kamal

Hi,
In order for row level security to work for you using the OpenSql driver, you need to configure the Security Definition Editor on your SAP server. This is a server side tool which the Integration solution for SAP offers as a transport.
This tool defined which tables are to be restricted based on authorizations.
However since you are seeing the issue on reports based on Business Views, you need to identify whether the Business View is configured in such a way where the user refreshing the report is based on the user logging into Infoview. If the connection to your SAP server is always established with the same user when BV is used then you security definition is pointless.
You can confirm this by tracing your SAP server to identify what user is being used to logon to SAP to refresh the reports.
thanks
Mike

Row level security in BI Publisher

Hi All ,
I am using BI publisher for reporting on Siebel system.The issue I am facing is regarding row level security.Even if I am logging with Employee Id, when I generate report ,I have acess to all the information of the other employees.
e.g. If as a cashier I made some entry , when I generate report on collection made by me, its bringing me all the collections made by other cashiers also.
I am generating these report from siebel side.I am not sure if we can apply the rowlevel security to BI Publisher.
Does anyone has used Siebel or EBS with BI Publisher and have row level security ? I am also not sure How to see the reports by loging into BI Publisher .If I am using Siebel or EBS, what is going to be my Data Model or Data Set.
Can anyone help me on this?
Thanks!!

Oracle HRMS has its own security built-in to the schemas. Other modules you will need to customize for your own use.

Setting up Row Level Security in EPM 11.1.1.3

I have been following the Administration guide but failed to setup row level security in EPM 11.1. Please advise which part of my steps are wrong. (note I am using MS SQL Server for the EPM Shared Services and Workspace database, everything under Windows env)
i) Enable row level security in Workspace.
Step 1) Define a ODBC Data Source named "EPM_WS" in Windows. The ODBC Data Source points to the MS SQL Server database of EPM Workspace since it contains the 3 tables (BRIOSECG, BRIOSECP, BRIOSECR) related to row-level-security.
Step 2) Login to workspace, select "Administer"->"Configuration Console". Edit "Interactive Reporting Data Access Services" and add a data source with ODBC->MS SQL Server -> "EPM_WS" as the name of datasource. Restart "Interactive Reporting Data Access Services".
Step 3) Login to workspace, select "Administer"->"Row Level Security". Check "Enable Row Level Security", Choose ODBC->MS SQL Server-> fill in "EPM_WS" as Data Source Name"-> Provide correct user name and password. Click "Save Properties"
Step 4) It always prompt "Server error setting the Connectivity. Recommended Action: Logoff and logon again. If problem persists contact your local security administrator."
Any log I can inspect for the connectivity error?
ii) Configure Row Level Security setting
I know that for Hyperion IR, there is a file row_level_security.bqy comes with the installation. User can use this bqy file to configure the actual row level security setting. However, I cannot locate this bqy file in the EPM 11.1 installation. What is the proper step for setting up the row level security configuration?
thank you very much.

I have been following the Administration guide but failed to setup row level security in EPM 11.1. Please advise which part of my steps are wrong. (note I am using MS SQL Server for the EPM Shared Services and Workspace database, everything under Windows env)
i) Enable row level security in Workspace.
Step 1) Define a ODBC Data Source named "EPM_WS" in Windows. The ODBC Data Source points to the MS SQL Server database of EPM Workspace since it contains the 3 tables (BRIOSECG, BRIOSECP, BRIOSECR) related to row-level-security.
Step 2) Login to workspace, select "Administer"->"Configuration Console". Edit "Interactive Reporting Data Access Services" and add a data source with ODBC->MS SQL Server -> "EPM_WS" as the name of datasource. Restart "Interactive Reporting Data Access Services".
Step 3) Login to workspace, select "Administer"->"Row Level Security". Check "Enable Row Level Security", Choose ODBC->MS SQL Server-> fill in "EPM_WS" as Data Source Name"-> Provide correct user name and password. Click "Save Properties"
Step 4) It always prompt "Server error setting the Connectivity. Recommended Action: Logoff and logon again. If problem persists contact your local security administrator."
Any log I can inspect for the connectivity error?
ii) Configure Row Level Security setting
I know that for Hyperion IR, there is a file row_level_security.bqy comes with the installation. User can use this bqy file to configure the actual row level security setting. However, I cannot locate this bqy file in the EPM 11.1 installation. What is the proper step for setting up the row level security configuration?
thank you very much.

Crystal reports LOV cascading prompts row level security not working

Crystal report LOV cascading prompts with row level security is not woking when the crytal report cache server/page server cache (Oldest On-Demand Data Given To a Client (in minutes)) is turned on. But its working fine when the cache is turned off.
Using XIR2 environment.
Appreciate the response.
Thanks
Chenthil

Hi Chen,
In terms of what could be done on the Crystal Reports end, there is no such controls available. However, your question may be better answered if it was posted to our Business Objects Enterprise forum.
It is at "BusinessObjects Enterprise Administration" section of the forums.
FYI.

Row level security in OBIEE 11g: Which is better: VPD or RPD

We can apply row level security in OBIEE by 2 ways.
1. by Creating Initialize Block in RPD
2. or Applying VPD in Database, which restricts source tables
Which one is more efficient and why?
Thanks,
Sunil Jena

you will have some degree of performance degradation with either approach since you are adding additional filters so I would not use that as the main factor to decide. You need to assess your actual requirements. What is the basis by which you are planning on doing the security. Is LDAP the main basis for the security? Do you plan to use certain roles? if your security is more based on roles at the application level, then it may be easier to define at the Application level (OBIEE)...if its just based on a certain user ID for a set of tables, then perhaps VPD can work. If helpful, pls mark.

Row level security with session variables, not a best practice?

Hello,
We are about to implement row level security in our BI project using OBIEE, and the solution we found most convenient for our requirement was to use session variables with initalization blocks.
The problem is that this method is listed as a "non best practice" in the Oracle documentation.
Alternative Security Administration Options - 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)
(This appendix describes alternative security administration options included for backward compatibility with upgraded systems and are not considered a best practice.)
Managing Session Variables
System session variables obtain their values from initialization blocks and are used to authenticate Oracle Business Intelligence users against external sources such as LDAP servers or database tables. Every active BI Server session generates session variables and initializes them. Each session variable instance can be initialized to a different value. For more information about how session variable and initialization blocks are used by Oracle Business Intelligence, see "Using Variables in the Oracle BI Repository" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Metadata Repository Builder's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.
How confusing... what is the best practice then?
Thank you for your help.
Joao Moreira

authenticating / authorizing part is take care by weblogic and then USER variable initialized and you may use it for any initblocks for security.
Init block for authenticating / authorizing and session variables are different, i guess you are mixing both.

Implement row-level security using Oracleu2019s Virtual Private Databases (VPD)

Environment: Business Objects XI R2; Oracle 10g
Functional Requirement:
Implement row-level security using Oracleu2019s Virtual Private Databases (VPD) technology. The restriction is that the Business Objects Universe connection should use a generic/u201Capplicationu201D database user account. This will allow the organization to avoid the situation where the Business Objects password and the Oracle password need to be kept in synch.
What do we need from the Business Objects support team?
1.     Review the 2 attempted solutions that we have tried to implement
2.     Propose solutions/answers to open questions for each of the attempted solutions
3.     Propose any alternate solution that will help us implement the Function Requirement stated above
Attempted Solution 1: Connection String uses Oracle Proxy User
The connection string that is specified in the Universe is the following:
app_user[end_user]/app_user_pwdarrobaDatabase.WORLD
app_user = generic application user
end_user = the oracle account of the end user which is set using arrobaVariable('BOUSER') app_user_pwd = password of the generic application user
We have tried and implemented this in our test environment. However, we have some questions and concerns around how the connections are reused in a connection pool environment.
Open Question for Solution 1:
i. What happens when multiple proxy users try to connect on at the same time? Business Objects shares the generic app_user connect string. However, every user that logs on will have their own unique proxy user credentials. Will there be any contention involved? If so, what kind of errors can we expect?
ii. If a user logs on using his credentials (proxy user), and business objects opens up a connection to the database using that user's credentials (as the proxy user but logging in through the generic app user). Then the user exits out --> based on our test today, it seems like the database connection remains open. In that case, if another user logs on similarly with their credentials, will business objects simply assign the first users connection to that second user? If so, then our security will not work. Is there a way that Business Objects can somehow ensure that everytime we close a report, the connection is also terminated both at the BO and DB levels?
iii. Our 3rd question is general high level -> How connection pooling works in general and how it is implemented in BO, i.e. how are new connections assigned, how are they recycled, how are they closed, etc.
Attempted Solution 2: Using the ConnectInit parameter
Reading through a couple of the Business Objects documents, it states that u201CUsing the ConnectInit parameter it is possible to send commands to the database when opening the session which can be used to set database specific parameters used for optimization.u201D
Therefore, we tried to set the parameter in the Universe using several different options:
ConnectInit = BEGIN SYSTEM.prc_logon('arrobaVARIABLE('BOUSER')'); COMMIT; END; ConnectInit = BEGIN DBMS_SESSION.SET_IDENTIFIER('arrobaVariable('BOUSER')'); COMMIT; END;
Neither of the above iterations or any variation of that seemed to work. It seems that the variable is not being set or being u201Cexecutedu201D on the database.
One of the Business Objects documents had stated that Patch ID 38, 977, 350 must be installed in our BO environments. We have verified that this patch has been applied on our system.
Open Questions for Solution 2:
How do we get the parameter ConnectInit to work? i.e. what is the proper syntax to enter and what other things do we need to check to get this to work.
Note: Arroba word is being used instead of the symbol in order to avoid following error message:
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the connectinit setting should look something like this:
declare a date; begin vpd_setup('@VARIABLE('BOUSER')'); Commit; end;
The vpd_setup procedure (in Oracle) should look like this:
CREATE OR REPLACE procedure vpd_setup (p_user varchar)IS
BEGIN
DBMS_SESSION.set_vpd( 'SESSION_VALUES', 'USERID', p_user );
END vpd_setup;
Then you can retrieve the value of the context variable in your vpd functions
and set the vpd.

How to implement row level security?

Hi all,
There is a database which is for 3 companies to use it and how to use row level security to make sure that they can only manipluate their own data? For example, "employee" table, for each company they just can see their own employees information. How to use dynamic view to do it?
Many Thanks
Amy

Here are two options to achieve what you want.
A. You can do this by coding, that's if you are ready to. Are you? If yes then try the steps below:
1. create a security codes table. Say for example
001 - company a
002 - company b
2. create a security table that will list all users and which company they should have access to. You can also implement this by roles.
3. alter all tables in the application schema to add a security code column. This will be a foreign key reference to table created in 1 above.
4. update all data in the tables according to which company they belong to.
5. write a procedure or package that does a validity check whenever a user requests for data. This procedure/package determines which company data the user has access/rights to.
With this, you should be able to achieve what you want if you do not want to spend on VPD and FGAC. The problem comes where there are users who would have cross access to data from both companies. In this regard, then you have to modify your security table a little bit to handle this.
B. This option i will admit is not so clean. You can also achieve this by two different views for every table in the application schema. And on each of these views, create a private synonym for every user. For illustration purposes:
Table name = Employee.
Create a view employee_a on employee
create a view employee_b on employee
Let's say you have users x and y. X has access to employees of company a and y has access to employees of company b. You can now create private synonyms for each of these users as follows:
create synonym employee on employee_a in x schema.
create synonym employee on employee_b on y schema.
This i have not tried but believe should work.
Hope one of these options serve your purpose.

Row Level security in OLAP universe

Hi,
We have a OLAP universe based on a BeX query and we are planning to implement the row level security on it.
As it is not possible to use the normal @BOUSER in the OLAP universe, what is the way to implement the same?
Is it possible to have it in the BeX query itself? Any thoughts on this please.
indus

Hi,
right now you can not implement row level security in an OLAP Universe, you need to setup BI Authorizations and use Authorization variables in the query.
Ingo

OBIEE Row-Level Security Inquiry

I had discussed a security requirement with one of our resources and it seems like a simple concept but for some reason I can’t think of simple way to implement in OBIEE.
If we have a fact table with a security column that has values which state what groups can see the data in that row (Multiple groups separated by semi-colons). The data in the row is layed out like this:
Group 1;Group 2;Group 3;Group 4
There is a user and group mapping table as well where if I pull a user (Say User1) the data in the column for their group assignments would look like:
Group 3;Group 10; Group 11
Since this user is in Group 3 they can see the values in that row of the fact table above (Because Group 3 appears in both).
Now I can run a session variable to get the user groups but how to then correlate to what rows they can see in that fact table is where I am stuck.
Can I solicit any suggestions?

They are various problems with your approach. To start with let's how OBIEE would like you to have the data:
State Sales
1 99
2 30
3 50
Then your user to group table should be like this:
User State
1 1
1 2
1 3
2 1
3 3
You would then do an row-wise Init Block to populate the GROUP variable. Then you simply do a filter in your BMM layer State = VALUEOF(NQ_SESSION.GROUP). Note that GROUP is that a list of groups so OBIEE will take care to convert this to SQL correctly. Now the way you have your data I don't think you can easily do row-level security. Basically what you need is to have your Group as dimension in your fact. What you have a is concatenated value which is useless. Also your user to group mapping table needs to be flat so you can do the row-wise init block. Hope it helps.

[Security]   Row-level security in ADF

Hi all,
I want to implement row-level security in my application, the scenario is like this:
There are several users that connect to the application
These users are authenticated in some way (XML file, OID, DB)
When each user wants to access (Select, Update, Delete) an ADF Table, either updatable or read-only, a predefined 'where condition' based on that table and the operation the user wants to do, must be concatenated to his DML, transparent from the user.
So if for example a user queries the Emp Salary table only records with salary < 10K/Month will be fetched from the underlying table. This should be done automatically and not hard-coded in the application.
I have tried VPD and it has some useful features but my problems are:
1) Where and how to define the 'where conditions'?
2) How to attach the 'where conditions' to the executing DML?
3) What is the best way to make DB know which user is really executing DMLs? (Not a single Application Server admin user)
4) What is the best authentication approach?
Any helps will be really appreciated.
S/\EE|)

Hi,
yes you can. Database proxy user is setup in the prepare session method as well and EUS can be configured to take the J2EE username to then re-connect the app to teh database schema
    public void prepareSession(SessionData SessionData)
       super.prepareSession(SessionData);
       oconn = ((PrxyTransactionImpl)this.getDBTransaction()).getPrxyConnection();
       // Specify the user that connects through the proxy user and its roles
       Properties prop = new Properties();
       prop.put(OracleConnection.PROXY_USER_NAME,"hr");
       //prop.put(OracleConnection.PROXY_ROLES, roles);
       String appContext = "Begin ctxhrpckg.set_userinfo('"+getApplicationUserName()+"'); END;";
       java.sql.CallableStatement st= null;
      // Open the proxy session (DB-authenticated users)
      try
        oconn.openProxySession(OracleConnection.PROXYTYPE_USER_NAME, prop);
        st = getDBTransaction().createCallableStatement(appContext,0);
        st.execute();
      catch (SQLException e)
        e.printStackTrace();
package oracle.sample.dbprxy.adfbc;
import oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl2;
import oracle.jbo.server.DatabaseTransactionFactory;
* TransactionFactory that returns PrxTransactionImpl, which is a subclass of
* DBTransactionImpl2
* @author Frank Nimphius
public class PrxyDatabaseTransactionFactory extends DatabaseTransactionFactory
public PrxyDatabaseTransactionFactory()
    super();
   * Override the create method to return an instance of PrxyTransactionImpl instead
   * of DBTransactionImpl2
   * @return PrxyTransactionImpl
public DBTransactionImpl2 create()
    return new PrxyTransactionImpl();
package oracle.sample.dbprxy.adfbc;
import oracle.jbo.server.DBTransactionImpl2;
import oracle.jdbc.OracleConnection;
public class PrxyTransactionImpl
extends DBTransactionImpl2
public PrxyTransactionImpl()
    super();
   * The DBTransactionImpl2 does not expose the connection in a public
   * method. This class is a wrapper to expose the connection to the
   * BC app, so it can be accessed in the ApplicationModuleImpl class
   * @return OracleConnection - SQL Connection
public OracleConnection getPrxyConnection()
    return (OracleConnection) this.getJdbcConnection();
}Note that for EUS ApplicationModule pooling should be disabled
Frank

Row level Security in obiee11g

Hello
I am trying to implement Row Level security for some 10,000 users based on the Cost Centers which are about 30,000. I know how to implement the data level security using groups an dapplication roles and creating security filters on those groups.
But There are two issues I am facing :
1. The no. of cost centers are huge i.e 30,000 . So creating these many groups doesn't seem feasible. Any other approach.
2. Cost center has got level based hierarchies having 20 levels and is a ragged hierarchy. There are some users who have access to Parent level node and there are some having access to child level cost centers. What I believed that for users having access to Parent level , I can assign all the child level cost centers and teh security will rollup to provide access to the Parent node (like you have access to California and Florida so automatically you get access to US (Cal + Flo).
But the issue is there could be one user who will have access to the TOp level so I will have to assign all teh cost center (30,000) so that he can get access to the Total Cost Centers. There could be other Managers who will have respective Parent Cost center access leading to assigning them to say 5000 - 10000 cost centers. My fact conatins the leaf level cost centers.
Is there a better approach to handle this.

Hi,
You can try to model your security requirement similar to Position-Based Security in OBIA .
Check *7.5.1 Primary Position based Security*
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E10783_01/doc/bi.79/e10742/security.htm
Thanks

Help with implementing Row Level Security in Interactive Reporting

We're deploying Hyperion BI+ 9.3.1, using Workspace and Interactive Reporting. I'm researching how we can use the Workspace row level security option. I've read what's available for documentation in the Workspace Administrator Guide and the Interactive Reporting Users Guide. I understand the concept of setting up rules with row_level_security.bqy, but I'm confused about where these tables should go and what actually happens when I go to Workspace > Administrator > Row Level Security and turn it on.
The Administrator's Guide tells me the "properties" are stored in the repository, but the "rules" are in the "data source". Does that mean my BRIOSEC* tables go in the database I'm running my reports from? If so, then what's the data source I'm filling in on Workspace > Administrator > Row Level Security?
I have many different database connections going to different Oracle and SQL*Plus instances, and I don't want to apply row level security to all of them. How does Workspace tell the difference between them? If I enable rules but create a report from a database that doesn't have rules defined for it, what happens?

The 3 tables used with the RLS are stored in the same schema as your repository by default.
The RLS store all the Rules for any database that you are using.
You define the rules based on the tablename (owner.tablename) and the column name.

How to implement Bursting(Row level security) in Xcelsius

Hi,
We are using Xcelsius 2008. We have created xcelsius dashboard using Qaaws but for authentication in qaaws we are suing enterprise authentication and default user.
Now in my dashboard i have one combo box wich gives data fro diffrent states, now i need to restrict the user to see the state values. I implement the row level security in universe, when i create webi report and view that reprot in infoview, the row level security works. But when i publish the dashboard to infoview the row level security doesn't work.
We are uisng XO 3.1 with SSO on IIS. So how and what are the diffrent option available to implement the row level security in Xcelsius Dashboard.
Thanks for the help in advance.
Thanks,
Nimesh.

Nimesh,
Were you able to implement ? I have a requirement to use the same dashboard for 5 regional users.
Row level security works.
combo box intial value is Global , when I login as North America user, combo still shows Global but it will have the value of North America.
i am curious to know how you implemeted this?
Thanks
Pushpa

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