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Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Storage
Product - IBM Spectrum Control
Component - Reports & Custom Reporting
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Storage
Product - IBM Spectrum Control Advanced Edition/VSC
Component - Reports & Custom Reporting
in order to remove duplicates, we will close this RFE, and would like to ask you to vote for this one instead: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=129278
Thank you for reaching out to us. Currently this has not changed in the recent releases of Spectrum Control. The objective of the current design, was that one role can create/edit reports, which includes the setup of the delivery options. As such the task of creating and changing reports is something that would not be done of a daily basis. In addition any user in Control can export any table data, so essentially only the scheduling part is what one the admin can do, as the overall idea is not to log into Control to view those reports online.
As a work around you could consider using Cognos Analytics, where those users that have to create reports, don't need to have access to the Control UI as an admin.
Thanks for this suggestion. Spectrum Control is mostly a read only application, and there is little that you can actually change on any storage system, so can you explain what the reasons are that you feel, this group of users should be able to create/amend reports? Also it sounds that there is a need to frequently create/adjust reports. can you explain this part a well? The reports were designed as batch reports, and perhaps we overlooked some of the use cases, which is why I want to learn more about how the reporting feature is being used in your environment.
To implement such a change, would you expect anyone belonging to a certain "report generation group" be able to just change any report, or only their own? What about reports created by higher level admins, should the users also be able to change those reports?
Thanks for your feedback.
you could use Cognos (which is included in the SC license) for reporting instead. Cognos offers a very granular authorization concept.