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

Troubleshooting


Problem

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

[{"Product":{"code":"SSEP7J","label":"Cognos Business Intelligence"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU059","label":"IBM Software w\/o TPS"},"Component":"--","Platform":[{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"10.1.1;10.1;8.4.1;8.4","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB10","label":"Data and AI"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
15 June 2018

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swg21618742