You must install the reporting models and integration components on the Cognos®
system. If your installation of Cognos is in a distributed
environment, you must install the reports package on the server where Cognos is installed.
Before you begin
Important: If you install
Unica Deliver
reports pack on
DB2, make sure that you
set the following value before you begin to apply the
Unica Deliver
Reports:
db2set DB2_COMPATIBILITY_VECTOR=ORA
About this task
To install the reports pack, complete the following steps.
Procedure
- On the server where Cognos Content
Manager is installed, place the following Unica installers
in a single directory:
- Unica master
installer
- Unica Platform
- The reports pack installer or installers for the products for
which you want to implement reporting
-
Run the Unica master installer. Select
Unica Platform and the
reports packages to install.
-
Following the prompts, enter the connection information for the Unica Platform system table database.
The Unica Platform installer launches
and the Platform Installation Components window appears.
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Select the Reports for IBM Cognos 11 BI option and clear the other
options.
The Unica Platform installer prompts for
the path to the JDBC driver.
-
Enter the fully qualified path for the JDBC driver that you copied to the Cognos system.
The Unica Platform installer prompts for
the location of the Cognos installation.
-
Enter or browse to the top level of the Cognos
installation directory.
The default value that is provided in this field is a static value that is not based on the
actual file structure of your Cognos system.
The report pack installer or installers displays installation options.
-
Select Product Reports Package for the installation
option and clear the option for the reporting schemas.
This option copies the reports archive to the Cognos
computer. You must import this archive later.