New Features in IBM Cognos 8.3 Business Intelligence
This article in Cognos Support Link magazine highlights some of the new features in Cognos 8.3 Business Intelligence, in particular the functionality that allows users to receive targeted information. Read the article on-line here: What’s New in IBM Cognos 8 BI version 8.3: More Targeted Information
Silent Installation of Cognos 8
If you have many servers to install and configure, the unattended install feature of Cognos 8 can be a real time saver. It will save you from clicking through the installer multiple times and reduces the chances of missing a component. This feature is also useful when installing remotely, where the GUI will be slow, or in the case of Unix and Linux, when X-Windows is not available.
The installation of Cognos 8 product is divided into two steps: first, copying over the files from the installation package and second, configuring parameters with Cognos Configuration.
Configuring an Apache web server for Cognos 8 BI Server
The first post-installation task after installing Cognos 8 is to configure the web server gateway. This article will step through configuring Apache for use with Cognos 8. For Cognos ReportNet, the same instructions apply, but the directories will be different.
Create the web aliases or virtual directories.
| Virtual directory |
File System Directory |
Permission Required |
| cognos8 |
c8/webcontent |
read |
| cognos8/cgi-bin |
c8/cgi-bin |
execute |
c8 represents where Cognos 8 is installed.
Setting up the Cognos 8 Samples on DB2
Cognos 8 Business Intelligence ships with sample data and reports for a fictional company named “The Great Outdoors”. The samples are useful for testing the functionality of the product and for following the examples in the documentation. The Cognos 8 samples are similar to the samples shipped with Series 7 and ReportNet, but not exactly the same. It is recommended to use the sample data that shipped with the version of the product installed, or some of the sample reports will not work correctly. If you are using several versions of the Cognos software concurrently, this means restoring the data into different schemas or different databases. This tutorial will walk through restoring the sample data on DB2 and then setting up the sample reports. The five SQL scripts used to setup the database can be downloaded here: cognos8_sample_setup_db2.
Create the sample database
Installing Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Server on Windows
This tutorial walks through the installation of IBM Cognos 8.3 Business Intelligence Server on Windows.
To start the installation, double click the issetup.exe in the win32 directory. On Windows Vista or Windows 2008 server, right click issetup.exe and select ‘Run as Administrator’.
Troubleshooting BI software
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