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Learn how to generate reports for the product.
Reporting deployment planning
HCL Compass lets you customize your deployment to support data-pull reports with BIRT reporting tools.
About the Report Launcher for HCL Compass
The Report Launcher for HCL Compass is a web application for running data-pull reports that are saved on a server file system.
Configuring security for the Report Launcher and reports
HCL Compass provides security features that can be configured to protect access to the Report Launcher for Compass and access to the reports themselves. Use the information in this topic to learn about and configure the network, client, and data security for the HCL Compass reporting environment.
Configuring security for the Report Launcher and reports
HCL Compass provides default security roles and configuration to restrict access to the Report Launcher for CompassHCL Compass and access to individual directories and reports using WebSphere® Application Server J2EE security. This configuration can be customized for your environment by updating the deployment descriptor and mapping users and groups to security roles.
Prerequisites
Before configuring and enabling the Report Launcher security settings for WebSphere® Application Server, review the LDAP server registry settings and obtain the LDAP user name for your installation.

Prerequisites for Report Launcher security configuration

Before configuring and enabling the Report Launcher security settings for WebSphere® Application Server, review the LDAP server registry settings and obtain the LDAP user name for your installation.

Understand the LDAP server registry settings for your organization.
Make sure that your reporting environment has been configured for LDAP. See Using LDAP with .
Note the LDAP user name of the WebSphere Application Server administrative user.
Configure a secure connection between the HCL Compass Web server and HCL Compass Web client. SeeConfiguring secure connections.

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