Importing the sample deployment

To make the sample reports available for use in IBM® Cognos® PowerPlay® Client, you must import the PowerPlay deployment archive that you downloaded from the supplementary samples website.

The deployment archive that you can use with PowerPlay is called IBM_Cognos_PowerPlay.zip.

Procedure

  1. Copy the sample deployment IBM_Cognos_PowerPlay.zip from your supplementary samples download location to the IBM Cognos Analytics Deployment files location specified in Cognos Configuration. The default location is cognos_analytics_installation_location/deployment.
  2. Connect to the IBM Cognos Analytics portal.
  3. In the Welcome page, click Manage > Administration console.
  4. On the Configuration tab, click Content Administration.
  5. Click the New Import button import button.
  6. Select the deployment, IBM_Cognos_PowerPlay.zip, and click Next.
  7. In the Select the public folders, directory and library content page, select the check box next to the folder name Samples_PowerPlay.

    Keep the default target folder name and location, and then click Next.

  8. In the next few pages, keep the default options, and click Next.
  9. Select Save and run once, and click Finish.
  10. Select Now, click Run, and then OK.

Results

The entry IBM_Cognos_PowerPlay appears in Content Administration.

The folder Samples_PowerPlay appears in Team content in the Cognos Analytics portal. These folders contain the sample PowerPlay packages and reports.