The Cognos user account requires Read, Execute, and Traverse permissions on all objects that Metadata Manager extracts, including folders, reports, queries, analysis, packages, and connections.

You can secure Cognos data sources against multiple namespaces. The namespace used to secure the data source may not be the primary namespace used to log in to Cognos. When Metadata Manager extracts a Cognos object that is associated with a data source secured against multiple namespaces, the Cognos user account must have the required permissions for the primary namespace.