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Cognos 8 Planning 8.4.1 software environments
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Supported Locales, Character Sets, and Languages
The locale, character set, and language information found on the page linked below are supported by IBM Cognos 8.4 Planning products.
Supported Locales, Character Sets, and Languages
System Requirements
IBM Cognos 8 Planning 8.4 System Requirements
(as found in the IBM Cognos 8 Planning 8.4 Installation and Configuration Guide)
Supported Environments Ending with IBM Cognos 8 Planning
Cognos is committed to supporting the latest technologies being used by our customers. As we move forward in our support for these newer technologies, IBM Cognos 8.4 Planning will be the last release to support the following environments:
- Relational Databases
- Oracle 9i
- Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Software Environments
All versions stated of an environment presume the initial release of a 3rd party product without any need for patches/service packs or equivalent terms unless stated. Equally, unless stated, IBM Cognos presumes that the 3rd party product has not been configured to disable new features (compatibility modes) and that all patches/service packs are upward compatible for our products from the versions stated.
IBM Cognos Planning 8.4 is a 32-bit product and will integrate with 3rd party 32-bit libraries only.
All references to Windows refer to Windows on x86 Architecture.
Software environments listed for IBM Cognos 8 Planning 8.4 are listed as active, compatible or not supported. Environments denoted as active are the environments tested by Cognos. Although environments denoted as compatible may also be tested, testing may be limited or support may be based on upward compatibility statements from Cognos partners and third-party vendors. Older releases of environments may transition over time from active to compatible as significant testing would have occurred in previous Cognos releases.
Software Environment Section Navigation
Operating Systems | Database Support
External Data Sources | Web Browsers
Excel Hosts | Third Party Components
IBM Cognos 8.4 Platform | Terminal Servers
| External Data Sources | |
| Data Source | Support |
| SAP NetWeaver 2004s BI (Unicode) | Compatible |
| SAP BW 3.5 | Active |
| For the required minimum SAP BW notes see IBM Cognos 8 BI 8.4 | |
| Cognos 8 Packages | |
| Data Source | Support |
| Cognos 8 BI 8.4 Cognos Packages - see Data Source Support | Compatible |
| Excel Hosts and Interoperability | Support |
| Excel 2007 | Active |
| Excel 2003 | Compatible |
| Excel 2002 | Compatible |
| Third Party Components (embedded/bundled) | Support |
| MDAC 2.8 | Active |
| MDAC 2.7 | Compatible |
| IBM Cognos 8.4 Platform |
| Cognos 8 Security (see Directory Servers and Authentication Providers) |
| Cognos 8 Portals (see Portal Services) |
| Cognos 8 Application Servers (see Application Servers - 32 bit only) |
| Cognos 8 Java Run Time Libraries (see JRE) |
| IBM Cognos 8 Web Servers (see Web Servers) |
| Content Store |
| Content Store database conformance in a Planning deployment is driven by the configuration of the Planning Store;
· If the same database is used to house both the Planning Store tables and the C8 Content Store then that database server version must be one of the versions supported for Planning Stores. · If the C8 Content Store and the Planning Store are in Separate databases then the Content Store conformance is the same as C8 BI 8.4 Content Store and the Planning Store still must be housed in a database version that is supported for Planning Applications. |
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Modified date:
17 June 2018
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