Restricting access to Views in SAP HANA for SAP Lumira

I recently got asked this by a customer of ours and it sparked the idea to put it into a blog post for those who are looking for a similar solution 😉

The blog posts and guides that I found when researching this would grant SAP Lumira access to all the views on your HANA server but none that I found restricted access to only certain packages.

Firstly let’s create a new ROLE that users will be assigned to:

And let’s now create a test USER and add it to the ROLE we created above:

Now let’s try log into HANA via SAP Lumira with the new user. We get the following error message which is as expected:

I will then give the TEST_ROLE Select rights to _SYS_BI and _SYS_BIC objects as below:

I will then try access HANA again using the TEST_USER. The good news is that we can now connect to SAP HANA but we do not have access to any analytical views yet:

There are a few blog post on SCN, that I found, like this one that touches on granting access for Lumira. Typically this involves granting access to the _SYS_B_CP_ALL Analytic Privilege to your USER/ROLE as below:

The problem/limitation with this method is that it casts the access net over your whole HANA system and will give that user access to all the Views/Packages on your system. As can be seen below we have access to 40 views in total:

So let me revoke the _SYS_BI_CP_ALL privileged first. Once that is done I now want to grant this TEST_ROLE access to only the CV_DEMO package and the three views in that as per the screen shot above.

In HANA Studio right click on the package you want to grant access to (cv_demo in my case) and choose to create a new Analytic Privilege as below:

As a matter of reference I created my Analytic Privilege as AP_CV_DEMO. The final piece of the puzzle is to go back to the TEST_ROLE and grant it access to AP_CV_DEMO Analytic Privilege that we have just created:

For one final check let’s head back into Lumira. When we log on we only have access to the 3 views in CV_DEMO which is what we wanted:

Finally if we access one of those views we are able to see the data in Lumira:

I hope this will help people out who are stuck with this and please do leave comments below if you have any further questions or ideas on this.

As a side note the revisions of Software that this is done on was:

SAP HANA Rev 82 (1.00.82.00.394270)

SAP Lumira 1.19.0 (Build 1099)