In the BI Portal's System definition for the backend BI ABAP system, is there any harm in using the SAP Logon Ticket as the "Authentication Ticket Type" instead of SAP Assertion ticket?
I have a federated portal configuration where the BI Portal is a producer. I configured the consumer portal's UME to use LDAP as the user store and the ABAP user mappings are defined in the consumer portal only. The BI producer portal is also setup to use the LDAP as the user store and is also configured to use SPNEGO -- the reason for this is so that the user doesn't have to login when he's accessing the BI reports through bookmarks in the browser favorites. The BI Portal doesn't have any user mapping to the backend ABAP system. It relies on the consumer portal's MYSAPSSO2 ticket's user mapping. In this configuration, I can run BI Bex reports iviews from the consumer portal through federated portal delta links to the BI producer portal. This only works however if on the BI Portal I set the "Authentication Ticket Type" setting to SAP Logon Ticket. The Bex reports stop working if I set the "Authenticaion Ticket Type" to SAP Assertion ticket. The SAP Assertion ticket does work however if I setup user mapping on the BI producer portal -- I really want to avoid setting up user mapping in both the consumer and producer portals.
Thanks in advance.
Mel Calucin
SAP Portal Architect
Bentley Systems, Inc.