Installation of IBM Cognos 8.

4 with Oracle
on Windows

Hi this is Harish koharish@gmail.com

www.youtube.com/koharish

After doing of so much research and search on net finally I got the simple solution for
installing IBM Cognos 8.4 with oracle on Windows machine so simply am giving
instructions here follow the instructions as simple as step by step

Required Software list:

1. IBM Cognos 8 BI Server 32-bit 8.4 Windows,
IBM Cognos 8 BI Modeling 8.4 Windows, IBM Cognos 8 BI Samples 8.4
2. Oracle 10.2 or OracleXEUniv or 9i
3. Apache 2.2 web server


Steps to be followed :-

1). Installing IBM Cognos 8.4 Server,

Here you no need to configure any thing simply install by
Clicking Next select the radio button on I Accept and Click on Next
And Select the location to install by Default that will come C:\Program Files\cognos\c8
Nothing to do here simply click on Next
And then that will give warning that ignore it by simply clicking on it by Yes
Again click on Next
Then that will show you components to being installed
Simply click on Next
Then that will ask for shortcut folder let it be default
Click on Next
Then That will show you Installation summary
Click on Next
You will now see the installation progress
Finally you will be navigate to the Installation complete Successfully Window

2).Installing IBM Cognos 8.4 BI Modeling

The same process which we are used for installing the IBM Cognos 8.4 Server
Repeat it but one thing to noted here is
Most of the people get confused at the selecting the location, no need to worry take it as
default nothing will happen if we install it in the same folder ,That should be installed in
the same folder as like as server installed location.



3). IBM Cognos 8 BI Samples 8.4

Here simply do it by clicking Next Next until Finish

4). Downloading and Installing Oracle database

If you are already having Oracle 10.2 no problem other wise download Download
OracleXEUniv.exe from Oracle corporation site
and install it,

Point to be noted while installing Oracle database

Take care the Character Set of the Database should be UNICODE (of course no need to
worry about that who use this OracleXEUniv.exe, the people who use this Oracle 10.2 full
version they should take care of that. And here I used service name as XE

5). Creating User in oracle

create user cognos identified by cognos

create user gosales identified by gosales;

create user gosalesdw identified by gosalesdw;

create user gosaleshr identified by gosaleshr;

create user gosalesrt identified by gosalesrt;

create user gosalesmr identified by gosalesmr;

grant dba to gosales;
grant dba to gosalesdw;
grant dba to gosaleshr;
grant dba to gosalesrt;
grant dba to gosalesmr;
grant dba to cognos;

6). Locating and Putting JDBC Jar file in cognos installation folder

Locate ojdbc14.jar in Oracle database
If you use OracleXEUniv that will be oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\jdbc\lib
Or if you use Oracle 10.2 then that will be C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\db_1\jdbc\lib
Otherwise simply search for ojdbc14.jar
copy ojdbc14.jar to cognos\c8\webapps\p2pd\WEB-INF\lib
If classes12.jar exists in that folder, delete that

7). Downloading and Configuring Apache

Download Apache 2.2 web server from Apache Web site (http://httpd.apache.org/)
and install it.

Open the file httpd.conf by using notepad in the installation folder generally (C:\Program
Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\ httpd.conf) and add the following
text at the end of the file

#cognos
Include conf/ extra/ cognos8.conf

Create the new file C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\conf\
extras\cognos8.conf
Note :- (Take care wile naming it by default that will take .txt extention by using double
quotes (cognos8.conf) you can achieve that: )
with the following contents:


#
#Cognos 8
#
ScriptAlias / cognos8/ cgi-bin "C:/ Program Files/ Cognos/ c8/ cgi-bin"
<Directory "C:/ Program Files/ Cognos/ c8/ cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</ Directory>
Alias / cognos8 "C:/ Program Files/ Cognos/ c8/ webcontent"
<Directory "C:/ Program Files/ Cognos/ c8/ webcontent">
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</ Directory>
<Directory "C:/ Program Files/ Cognos/ c8/ documentation">
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</ Directory>

Now restart the Apache server that can be find in your tray







8). Configuration of IBM Cognos 8.4

Start Cognos Configuration. ( Start - - > All Programs- ->IBM Cgnos 8 - -> IBM Cognos
Configuration
Delete whatever it is under Content Manager and create a new item called Content Store, of
type Oracle.
Edit the user and password by clicking the pen as shown In the below image .
User cognos, password cognos.
Service name is XE. ( Here I used XE while installing Oracle you may use deferent one.
Right click on Content Store and Test, some times it fails to start conent manager data
connection dont worry restart your database service.
If alls right click the green play button to start the service.
You can close Cognos Configuration now, as the service will continue to run in the background.




Now open the Internet explorer to Test that Cognos Connection is working
Type the address http://127.0.0.1/cognos8 or http://localhost/cognos8.
Now that should looks like below


9). Importing the samples DataBase.

Go to cognos\c8\webcontent\samples\datasources\oracle and extract the .gz files
In the same folder
Go to that folder in command prompt as shown below run the following commands:




imp gosales/gosales@xe file = GOSALES.dmp full=y log=log.txt
imp gosaleshr/gosaleshr@xe file = GOSALESHR.dmp full=y log=log.txt
imp gosalesdw/gosalesdw@xe file = GOSALESDW.dmp full=y log=log.txt
imp gosalesmr/gosalesmr@xe file = GOSALESMR.dmp full=y log=log.txt
imp gosalesrt/gosalesrt@xe file = GOSALESRT.dmp full=y log=log.txt


Here gosales, gosaleshr, gosalesdw, gosalesmr, gosalesrt are the users we are created
earlier in the oracle database
Now all the dumps are loaded in to your database now you are having all the data in your
Oracle database .

10). Creating Data Sources

Open Cognos Connection (Internet explorer type this address http://localhost/cognos8)
and select Administer IBM Cognos content -> Configuration -> select Cognos
Administration and then Configuration Data Source Connections
Click the New Data Source button as shown in fig.
Type gosales for name and click Next.
Select Oracle for type and click Next.
Type xe for connection string.
Select User ID and Password checkboxes.
Enter gosales for user ID and the same for password.
Test the connection. In case of failure restart the Oracle database.
If all goes well click Finish.
Repeat the steps for gosaleshr, gosalesdw, gosalesmr and gosalesrt.



11). Projects Configuration in frame work manager.

Open Framework Manager (Start - - > All Programs- ->IBM Cgnos 8 - ->Framework
Manager)

Open project C:\Program Files\cognos\c8\webcontent\samples\Models\
great_outdoors_sales\ great_outdoors_sales.cpf

Expand Data Sources and for each data source check that the Content Manager
Datasource and Schema have the same value (gosales, gosalesdw,).

Also modify the Interface (under Type) to OR instead of OL.

Test each Data Source. In case of failure restart the Oracle database. Save your changes
to the project file.

Expand Packages and publish each package (right click -> publish packages..).
Ignore the errors.
Save and exit.
Do the same for project C:\Program Files\cognos\c8\webcontent\samples\Models\
great_outdoors_warehouse\great_outdoors_warehouse.cpf



And see the










12). Importing the samples Reports.

Copy Cognos_Samples.zip from c8\webcontent\samples\content to c8\deployment.

Open Cognos Connection (Internet explorer type this address http://localhost/cognos8)
and select Administer IBM Cognos content -> Configuration -> Content Administration.
Click New Import icon.
Cognos_Samples should appear in the list. Select Next, then Next again.
On the Select the Public Folders Content page, select the checkbox to the left of the
Cognos_Samples package.
Select Next, Next again, then Import Now.



Ok installation is complete now you can check wether the sample reports

By opening IBM Cognos Connection (Internet explorer type this address
http://localhost/cognos8) - -> IBM Cognos Content - ->Public folders - -> Samples












Thank you,

Regards Harish Kotte

If you have any Doubts Contact me koharish@gmail.com

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