You must install the reporting models and integration components on the HCL®
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
eMessage
reports pack on
HCL
DB2, make sure that you
set the following value before you begin to apply the
eMessage
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 HCL® Marketing
Software installers
in a single directory:
- HCL Marketing
Software master
installer
- Marketing Platform
- The reports pack installer or installers for the products for
which you want to implement reporting
-
Run the HCL Marketing
Software master installer. Select
Marketing Platform and the
reports packages to install.
-
Following the prompts, enter the connection information for the Marketing Platform system table database.
The Marketing Platform installer launches
and the Platform Installation Components window appears.
-
Select the Reports for IBM Cognos 11 BI option and clear the other
options.
The Marketing 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 Marketing Platform installer prompts for
the location of the HCL
Cognos installation.
-
Enter or browse to the top level of the HCL
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 HCL
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.
