Installing IBM Cognos Planning with IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

You can install IBM® Cognos® Planning in an environment that includes other IBM Cognos products. The installation wizard for IBM Cognos Planning will recognize compatible directories and show a warning when conflicts occur.

If you plan to install IBM Cognos Planning and IBM Cognos Business Intelligence in the same environment then you must ensure that the following conditions are met:

If you already have IBM Cognos Business Intelligence version 10.1.1 installed, you can install version 10.2.0 of IBM Cognos Planning. When you configure Cognos Planning, your existing BI 10.1.1 configuration is maintained.
If you have IBM Cognos Analytics version 11.0 installed, you can install version 10.2.0 of IBM Cognos Planning. When you configure Cognos Planning 10.2, it uses the BI 10.1.1 components that are bundled with it. However, you can then use Cognos Planning to work with some features of your Cognos Analytics environment.
Only one instance of a Planning Server or a Planning Administration tool is permitted per machine.
Only one instance of each IBM Cognos product can be installed per machine. The IBM Cognos Planning instance and the IBM Cognos BI instance must be installed in the same location.
A machine can only belong to one environment.

You can use IBM Cognos Planning published data as the basis for IBM Cognos Business Intelligence reports. Report Studio and Analysis Studio users can access unpublished (real-time) and published Contributor data for analysis and reporting. You can also import data from IBM Cognos data sources into Contributor applications and Analyst models. For more information, see the Contributor Administration Guide.

If you have an existing IBM Cognos Business Intelligence environment, you can install IBM Cognos Planning into that environment and use your existing IBM Cognos Business Intelligence content store. If the content store is on a database platform not supported by IBM Cognos Planning, you can still use the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence content store, but you must use a separate planning store on a supported database.

If you installed IBM Cognos Business Intelligence on a single server for a demonstration or proof of concept environment, you can install the IBM Cognos Planning server and clients into that environment. You can install the Planning Server component to the same location as your IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Application Tier Components. You can install the clients to the same location or to another location on the same computer.

In the following diagram, the server components are installed on one computer and the clients are installed on another computer. Also, the planning store has been added as a separate database.

Figure 1. IBM Cognos Planning and IBM Cognos Business Intelligence configuration

Displays IBM Cognos Planning server and client components installed in the same location as IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.

If you installed IBM Cognos Business Intelligence in a distributed environment and separated the gateway, Application Tier Components, and Content Manager, you can install IBM Cognos Planning into that distributed environment. In this case, you must install the IBM Cognos Planning gateway to the same location as your IBM Cognos Business Intelligence gateway, and you can use your existing Content Manager. To enhance performance, you may want to install the Planning Server to a separate computer.

For example, you may have an IBM Cognos Business Intelligence environment that looks like this:

Figure 2. IBM Cognos Business Intelligence environment without IBM Cognos Planning

Displays the environment for IBM Cognos BI.

You must install the IBM Cognos Planning gateway component into the same location where you installed the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence gateway. Because IBM Cognos Planning uses the same Content Manager as IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, you do not need to reinstall Content Manager.

Your IBM Cognos Business Intelligence and IBM Cognos Planning environment could look like this:

Figure 3. IBM Cognos Business Intelligence environment with IBM Cognos Planning

Displays the environment for IBM Cognos BI and IBM Cognos Planning.

You cannot install IBM Cognos Planning components in the same directory as the 64-bit version of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence (BI). You must install them in separate paths or on separate computers.