Configuring Cognos® Business Intelligence after installation

After installation, you need to perform further configuration tasks to ensure that IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence works.

Before you begin

Before performing these configuration steps, the following components must have been installed:

About this task

Cognos® Business Intelligence Server and Cognos® Transformer need to communicate with a database client to set up the Cognos® content store and to build the Cognos® PowerCube. A set of specific settings (appropriate to each operation system and database type) must be specified before Cognos® components can work properly. The following topics detail the configuration steps according to the supported database types: