OLAP Miner User's Guide


Access privileges

OLAP Miner relies on DB2 OLAP Server to authorize its users to access servers, applications, and cubes.

When you log on to the OLAP server from the OLAP Miner client application, your user ID and password are passed to the OLAP Miner server. The OLAP Miner server uses that information to log on to the OLAP server, and any subsequent requests to the OLAP server are performed with that connection.

You can configure OLAP Miner to allow only users with certain privileges to create, manage, and run deviation detection definitions. You might want to do this if you have power users in your organization who are comfortable working with OLAP outlines, and you want to restrict the ability to work with definitions to those users.

You might also want to control which users can run definitions because running deviation detection definitions can affect the performance of the OLAP Miner server. You can control this type of access by using the power_user element of the OMServer.cfg file. This allows you to control the access that a user must have to a cube before that user is allowed to work with and run deviation detection definitions. For more information about the possible settings for the power_user element, see Configuring the OLAP Miner server.


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