Installing and configuring IBM Cognos reporting components

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After you configure the audit database, you must install and configure the IBM® Cognos® reporting components.

About this task

During the database configuration process, complete the following steps:
  • Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the JVM that is used by the application server.
  • Use the enterprise database as IBM Cognos content store.
  • Delete the existing data source and create a new data source to enable an option of generating DDL during creation of the content store database. For information about data source creation, see Creating a data source.

All of the following procedures for installing IBM Cognos reporting components are available in theIBM Cognos Business Intelligence documentation.

Procedure

  1. Ensure that Cognos Business Intelligence is installed according to the instructions in the prerequisites.
  2. IBM Security Directory Server installs the audit reports. You can find the reports at sds_install_dir/report/SDSAuditReportingPackage.zip.
  3. After you install the Cognos Business Intelligence server, create a content store in the database. Complete the steps in the following topics, according to your operating system:
    1. Start IBM Cognos Configuration.
    2. Create a content store database.
  4. Configure the web gateway. Complete the steps in the topic, Installing and configuring the gateway.
  5. Configure the web server. Complete the steps in the topic, Configuring the web server.

What to do next

Import the reporting package.