PowerPlay Administration

Introduction
This document is intended for use with IBM® Cognos® PowerPlay®.
Cognos PowerPlay version 11.0
IBM Cognos PowerPlay version 11.0 provides the data analysis and exploration capabilities that are familiar to report authors, analysts, and users of previous versions of IBM Cognos PowerPlay in the IBM Cognos Analytics environment.
Administering IBM Cognos PowerPlay
IBM Cognos PowerPlay is administered using IBM Cognos Administration, which is accessed through the IBM Cognos Analytics portal.
Setting up the Cognos PowerPlay samples
The PowerPlay samples are included with the IBM Cognos Analytics supplementary samples.
Setting up logging
IBM Cognos Analytics log messages provide information about the status of components, including PowerPlay, and a high-level view of important events.
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.
Troubleshooting
Use this troubleshooting reference information and solutions as a resource to help you solve specific problems you may encounter when using IBM Cognos PowerPlay.
Japanese Shift-JIS Character Mapping
When migrating reports or cubes whose names contain Japanese characters, issues may occur because there is no industry standard for mapping byte sequences from Shift-JIS characters to and from Unicode.