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Abstract
Install a Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1.1 fix package in Rational Insight 1.1.
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Procedure:
Note: The following steps assume that your WAS profile is named "RationalReport". Make appropriate adjustments to the steps if it is named differently.
- Verify that you have installed the Cognos 10.1.1 hotfix that was included in Rational Insight 1.1. Review technote 1572859: Install IBM Cognos 10 BI 10.1.1 hotfix for IBM Rational Insight 1.1.
- If you have set up a distributed ETL server, stop the RationalReport WAS profile on the ETL server.
- Stop the RationalReport WAS profile on the report server.
- Download the Cognos Business Intelligence 10.1.1 fix package for your platform and unzip its content to a local directory on the report server, for example <CognosPatchDir>
Note: For Rational Insight 1.1, only download the patch for 32-bit Windows or Linux.
- Navigate to <CognosPatchDir> and start the installation wizard:
- For Windows, run <CognosPatchDir>\win32\issetup.exe
- For Linux, run <CognosPatchDir>/linuxi38632/issetup
- Follow the instructions in the installation wizard and install the patch to the <InsightInstallDir>/cognos directory.
- Delete <InsightInstallDir>/cognos/p2pd.ear.
- Open a command prompt or terminal window and navigate to <InsightInstallDir>/cognos/war/p2pd.
For example, on Windows, navigate to C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational Insight\cognos\war\p2pd.
- Run the following command to rebuild the <InsightInstallDir>/cognos/p2pd.ear file:
build -Dcontext_root=reporting ear
Note: If you had specified "insight" as the Web application root context when you installed or upgraded to Rational Insight 1.1, run the following command instead:
build -Dcontext_root=insight ear
- Start the RationalReport WAS profile on the report server.
- Perform the following steps to update the IBM Cognos Web application on the report server by redeploying the <InsightInstallDir>/cognos/p2pd.ear file:
- Start the WebSphere Administrative Console associated with the RationalReport profile.
- Log on and navigate to Applications > Application Types > WebSphere enterprise applications.
- Select the IBM Cognos checkbox, click Uninstall and click OK.
- Click Save to save the changes.
- Click Install to install a new Web application.
- Click Browse, select <InsightInstallDir>/cognos/p2pd.ear file and click Next.
- Click Next repeatedly to advance to the Summary wizard page.
- Click Finish.
- Click Save to the save the changes.
- Log out and exit the WebSphere Administrative Console.
- Restart the RationalReport WAS profile on the report server.
- Log on to the report server and verify that you can access the Cognos Connection and Cognos Administration UI without any issue.
- If you have set up a distributed ETL server, repeat steps 4 to 13 on the ETL server.
Note: Substitute "report server" with "ETL server" in the above steps.
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Modified date:
16 June 2018
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