About Private Data Source Connections

Private connections for OLAP, JDBC, Web Service, and HTTP data sources are supported in Oracle BI Publisher and can be created by users with data model creation privileges.

When you create a private data source connection, the private data source connection is available only to you in the data model editor data source menus.

Administrators have access to the private data source connections created by users. All private data source connections are displayed to Administrators when they view the list of OLAP, JDBC, Web Service, and HTTP data sources from the Administration page.

Private data source connections are distinguished by an Allowed User value on the Data Source Administration page. Administrators can extend access to other users to a private data source connection by assigning additional user roles to it.

For more information on assigning roles to data sources, see Grant Access to Data Sources Using the Security Region.