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I did not find a forum for Business Glossary, so am posting my planning-related questions here. Which forum is best for this?

1. Has anyone here tested the following workaround to allow anonymous access to browse and search Business Glossary 8.7 content with any successes to share or pitfalls to be aware of?

How to bypass authentication in InfoSphere Information Server Business Glossary

2. The technote appears to end with version 9.1. Would the same workaround apply with Information Governance Catalog 11.3.1?

The other posts on the subject of Business Glossary are off in the Data Quality Best Practices forum so moved you over there. Errr, over here.

In version 11.3 Business Glossary and Metadata Workbench are combined into Information Governance Catalog. Version 11.3 supports single sign-on across all browser-based clients.

I have not yet had the need to research anonymous login to IGC or to Glossary Anywhere in version 11.3, but would suspect that it's possible.
This article from the IBM Knowledge Center addresses the single sign-on capability.

Craig, thanks for the forum info.

Ray, thanks for the single sign on / SPNEGO web Authentication link. Very interesting. That may be a good way to go!

I will have to look into it and cross my fingers for new levels of dialog and cooperation from the Active Directory folks.

I hope in time that we can test the anonymous workaround as well as the single sign on.

An initial test of anonymous access in IGC 11.3.1.1 shows that the same steps work as described in the above technote for the older BG versions.

The IGC web login page is gone and simply goes to the IGC home page instead. Very nice.

The IBM Glossary Anywhere 11.3.x client, however, still expects a valid username and password. Hmmm...

There are other articles somewhere for setting up anonymous login to the Glossary Anywhere product (or to Business Glossary for earlier versions). I've implemented this in a few sites. Not in a position right now to give details, but the process IS documented.

We've been using the Mock Authentication approach for the past several years and it's worked really well, not only for direct access to the Glossary, but also through integration points in Cognos and Business Glossary Anywhere.

Brent