PDF Report Output : Blocked due to security threat
Today suddenly I started receiving complaints from Cognos report users that the drill-throughs from PDFs are not working! We most of my business users prefer PDF output as default. This allows them to print the report right away, and also allowed them do the drill-throughs thanks to PDF JavaScript. This is quite an impressive feature of Cognos Reports (version 8.2) However, all of sudden these drill links stopped working. I was quite surprised as I didn't install any patch on Cognos, neither did any Adobe updates. After some investigation I found that the intranet administrators had blocked Java Scripts from PDF Reader. Gosh! Now what's that for? Here is what I got to know from them.. Adobe Reader Zero-Day Exploit: The popular PDF document format has made the Adobe Reader software virtually ubiquitous. Few software products are installed so pervasively that they exist on nearly every system regardless of operating system. For malware developers, targeting flaws in Adobe Re