PowerPlay Batch Administration

This section describes the administration options available in the IBM® Cognos® PowerPlay® batch administration utility. With the batch administration utility, you can execute administration commands for IBM Cognos PowerPlay from the Microsoft Windows operating system command prompt or UNIX operating system command shell instead of using IBM Cognos Administration in a browser session. Also, you can redirect stdin to use batch commands and redirect stdout to a log file.

In a UNIX operating system, you access the batch administration utility using the ppadmtool.sh script. This script sets the appropriate environment variables and starts the utility. Parameters appended to the script are passed to the administration utility for processing.

If the IBM Cognos Analytics environment is configured to use SSL protocol for communication between IBM Cognos Analytics components you must complete additional configuration steps before you can use the ppadmtool utility.

Make frequent backups of your IBM Cognos content store to ensure that you can return to a fully functional environment should unexpected problems occur.