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How to change or hide the words "IBM Cognos Software" in the welcome page?


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Problem(Abstract)

How do you change or hide the words "IBM Cognos Software" in the Cognos welcome page

Resolving the problem

Steps:
1. Make a copy of the original portal.xml and portal_en.xml files in the ...\templates\ps\messages folder.
2. Open these xml files by using text editor
3. Find <string id = "IDS_COGNOS_REPORTS"...</string> section in these xml files
4. Change to your specific custom words
5. Save all changed xml files
6. Restart Cognos service

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Replace the IBM Logo with a Custom Logo

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IBM, the IBM logo and ibm.com are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp., registered in many jurisdictions worldwide. Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies. A current list of IBM trademarks is available on the Web at "Copyright and trademark information" at www.ibm.com/legal/copytrade.shtml.

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Document information

Cognos Business Intelligence


Software version:
8.4, 8.4.1, 10.1, 10.1.1


Operating system(s):
Windows


Reference #:
1618742


Modified date:
2012-12-04

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