IBM Cognos BI content store database password maintenance

In IBM® Business Monitor, you can use an authentication alias (Cognos_JDBC_Alias) for the IBM Cognos® BI content store to maintain all your system database passwords from WebSphere. You can use the wbmSetCognosDatabaseUser command if you want to set the password from a script rather than from the administrative console.

Purpose

The wbmSetCognosDatabaseUser command sets the user name and password for the Cognos_JDBC_Alias.

Examples

The following example uses Jacl to set the user name and password.
$AdminTask wbmSetCognosDatabaseUser {-dbUserName myName -dbUserPassword myPassword}
The following example uses Jython to set the user name and password.
AdminTask.wbmSetCognosDatabaseUser ('-dbUserName myName -dbUserPassword myPassword')

Parameters

The wbmSetCognosDatabaseUser command accepts the parameters listed in the following table.

Parameter and value Required? Description Comments
-dbUserName user_name Required The name of the database user for the content store.  
-dbUserPassword password Required The password of the database user for the content store.