Additional Configuration Options

After you install one or more IBM® Cognos® Controller components on your computer, you must configure them to work in your IBM Cognos environment.

Initially, default property settings chosen by IBM Cognos are used to configure the IBM Cognos Controller components. However, you may want to change these default settings if existing conditions make the default choices inappropriate, or to better suit your environment.

Other configuration tasks are optional and depend on your IBM Cognos environment. Use these optional configuration tasks to customize your configuration so that IBM Cognos Controller integrates easily into your existing environment. You can also configure IBM Cognos Controller to use other resources. For example, you can use an authentication provider and then enable single signon for the database connection and the users.

Use IBM Cognos Configuration to configure your IBM Cognos Environment URIs and to specify the database connection properties to the content store. When you change the value of a property, you must save the configuration and then restart the IBM Cognos service to apply the new settings to your computer.

Use IBM Cognos Controller Configuration to configure your Controller data source and Controller data mart connections, the COM+ Server, and server authentication. When you change the value of a property, you must save the configuration.