Set up an unattended installation for IBM Cognos components

Use a transfer specification file (.ats) to copy IBM® Cognos® components to your computer without being prompted for information. Use the following TM1® product codes for an unattended installation.

By default, each time you install IBM Cognos components with the installation wizard, the options you select are recorded in a transfer specification file. Therefore, if you already installed IBM Cognos components on a sample computer, you can use the generated transfer specification file as a template for unattended installations on different computers.

If you do not use the installation wizard to install components, you can use the default transfer specification file named response.ats that is available on the disk. You must modify the response.ats file for your environment before you can use it for an unattended installation.

You can check whether the unattended installation was successful by checking the return status. A value of 0 indicates success and all other values indicate that an error occurred.

Procedure

  1. Use the installation wizard to install IBM Planning Analytics components on one computer.
  2. After the installation is complete, go to tm1_location/instlog to locate the transfer specification file (.ats) that was generated during the installation. The file name format is ts-product_code-version-yyyymmdd_hhmm.ats.
    Where product_code is as listed in the following table:
    Table 1. TM1 product codes for an unattended installation
    Product Code Product
    TM1APPTIER_APP=1 TM1 Data Tier
    TM1SERVER_APP=1 TM1 Server
    TM1ADMINSERVER_APP=1 TM1 Admin Server
    TM1TOOLS_APP=1 TM1 Tools
    TM1SAMPLETIER_APP=1 TM1 Samples
  3. Copy the generated transfer specification file to the computer where you plan to install IBM Planning Analytics.
  4. On the computer where you plan to install the software, do one of the following:
    • Insert the appropriate product installation disk, and copy the contents of the disk to your computer.
    • Copy the product installation files you downloaded to your computer.
  5. Open the transfer specification file in a text editor.
  6. In the License Agreement dialogs, change the I Agree property to y. This action means that you are accepting the license agreement. To read the terms of the license agreement, see the LA_language_code and notices files in either of these locations:
    • On the product disk in the root installation directory for the operating system
    • On the computer from which you copied the transfer specification file in the tm1_location/instlog directory
  7. Save the transfer specification file in the directory where you copied the installation files.
  8. In a command or terminal window, go to the operating system directory where you copied the installation files.
  9. Enter the following command:
    • On Windows, type the following, where location is the directory where you copied the filename.ats file:
      issetup -s location\filename.ats
    • On UNIX or Linux, type:
      ./issetup -s location/filename.ats
    • On UNIX or Linux where you do not have XWindows, type:
      ./issetupnx -s location/filename.ats

Results

If a return status other than 0 is returned, check the log files for error messages. Errors are recorded in the tm1_location/instlog in a summary error log file. The file name format is tl-product_code-version-yyyymmdd-hhmm_summary-error.txt.

If errors occur before sufficient initialization occurs, log messages are sent to a log file in the Temp directory. The file name format is tl-product_code-version-yyyymmdd-hhmm.txt.

After all errors are resolved, you can set up an unattended configuration.