Manually change default configuration settings
If the console attached to your UNIX or Linux® operating system computer does not support a Java-based graphical user interface, you must edit the cogstartup.xml to configure IBM® Cognos® Analytics to work in your environment.
If you want IBM Cognos Analytics to use a resource, such as an authentication provider that already exists in your environment, you can add a component to your configuration. You do this by copying the required XML code from the sample files into the cogstartup.xml file and then edit the values to suit your environment.
By default, the cogstartup.xml file is encoded using UTF-8. When you save the cogstartup.xml file, ensure that you change the encoding of your user locale to match the encoding used. The encoding of your user locale is set by your environment variables.
When you edit the cogstartup.xml file, remember that XML is case-sensitive. Case is important in all uses of text, including element and attribute labels, elements and values.
Before you edit the cogstartup.xml file, ensure that you
- make a backup copy
- create the content store on an available computer in your network
- review the configuration requirements for your installation type