Installing Cognos PowerPlay on Windows operating systems

You can install IBM® Cognos® PowerPlay® Windows operating systems using a graphical user interface.

Before you begin

View the IBM Cognos Analytics on Premises 12.0.x Supported Software Environments (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6966712) to verify the software and hardware requirements.

Cognos PowerPlay and Cognos Analytics must be installed to different directories.

Procedure

  1. Download and extract the PowerPlay installation files.
  2. Go to the installation source files directory, and double-click issetup.exe
  3. Select the language for the installation.

    The language that you select determines the language of the user interface. All supported languages are installed. You can later change the user interface to any of the installed languages.

  4. Follow the directions in the installation wizard to copy the required files to your computer.

    In the Component Selection page, PowerPlay Server is selected by default.

    Tip: The Series 7 Migration Components are used to migrate content from IBM Cognos Series 7 to IBM Cognos Business Intelligence version 10.2.2 and earlier. Unless you still use IBM Cognos Series 7, you do not need to install this component.

    If you decide to change the default installation directory, specify a directory that contains only ASCII characters in the path name. Some Windows web servers do not support non-ASCII characters in directory names.

  5. In the Finish page of the installation wizard, if you want to see the log files, click for the appropriate log file.

    Do not start IBM Cognos Configuration now.

  6. Click Finish.

What to do next

You can now configure your Cognos PowerPlay installation. Start with configuring port and URI settings.