Uninstalling Cognos Metrics for Windows

Manually uninstall Cognos Metrics for Windows.

Procedure

  1. Extract the Cognos® installation wizard as follows
    1. Extract the wizard to a directory such as C:/build/IBM_Cognos_Install_Windows on the local server.
    2. Access the CognosWizard/native folder.
    3. Extract CognosCommonConfig_windows.zip.
    4. Copy the following files from the bin folder in CognosCommonConfig_windows.zip to the bin folder in %COGNOS_CONFIG_PATH%:
      • cognos-uninstall.bat
      • removeCognosCluster.py
      • removeCognosServer.py
      • uninstallCognosApps.py
      • uninstallCognosDMApps.py
      • validateDM.py
  2. Open the cognos-setup.properties file to restore the value for the PASSWORD REMOVED property to the original password unless the passwords were not removed during installation.
  3. Run the Cognos® uninstall command using the following format:
    For a clustered, federated node, run
    >cognos-uninstall.bat -addNode true
    Note: If you have not entered information for Deployment Manager and the cluster, the console will prompt for them during the validation.
    For a stand-alone environment, run
    >cognos-uninstall.bat
  4. Wait for the script to complete running.