You can install IBM® Cognos® Dynamic
Cubes components
by using a transfer specification file (.ats) generated from a previous
installation.
About this task
By default, each time you install IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes components using the Installation wizard,
the options
that you select are recorded in a transfer specification file. Therefore,
if you already installed IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes components
on a deployment computer, you can use the generated transfer specification
file as a template for unattended installations on different computers.
You can use the file as a template by starting the installer from
the command line and passing the response file in as an argument.You can determine whether the unattended installation was successful
by checking the return status. A value of zero (0) indicates success,
and all other values indicate that an error occurred.
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Procedure
- Use the installation wizard to install IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes components on one computer.
- Go to c10_location/instlog directory.
- Locate the transfer specification
file (.ats) that was
generated.
The file name format is ts-DCUBEMODEL-version-yyyymmdd_hhmm.ats.
-
Copy the transfer specification file to the computer where
you plan to install IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes.
- In a text editor, open the transfer specification file
(.ats) that you copied.
- In the IBM
License Agreement section,
change the I Agree property to y.
This action means that you are accepting the license
agreement. To read the terms of the license agreement, see the LA_
language_code and notices files in either of the following
locations:
- On the product disc, in the root installation directory
for the
operating system.
- On the computer from which you copied the response.ats file, in the c10_location\license\product directory.
- Save the transfer specification file
to a local directory
and in the same folder (the directory where you copied the contents
of the installation disk) that contains the installer executable file issetup.exe .
- Choose how to install IBM Cognos Dynamic
Cubes based on the following operating systems:
- On Microsoft Windows, insert the IBM Cognos Dynamic Cubes product disc, open a Command Prompt window, change to the win32 directory where you copied the contents
of the disk, where the installer issetup.exe file is located, and
type the following command:
issetup -s location/filename.ats
Where location is the directory
where you saved the transfer specification file.
- On Linux®, open a shell
prompt, change to your Linux operating system directory where you copied the contents of the
disk; for example, aix32, solaris32, or linuxi38632, and type the
following command:
./issetup -s location/filename.ats
Where location is the directory
where you copied the transfer specification file.
- On the Linux computer
where you do not have X Window System, change to the directory where
you copied the contents of the disk, and in the directory for your
operating system, type the following command:
./issetupnx
-s location/filename.ats
Where location is the directory where you copied the transfer
specification file.
Results
If a return status other than zero (0) is returned, check
the log files for error messages. Errors are recorded in the c10_location\instlog directory in a
summary error log file. The file name format is tl-DCUBEPMODEL-versionyyyymmdd- hhmm_summary-error.txt.
If errors occur before sufficient initialization occurs, log messages
are sent to tl-DCUBEPMODEL-version-yyyymmdd-hhmm.txt log file in the Temp directory.