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IBM Cognos Analytics Version 11.1.X : Installation & Configuration IBM Cognos Analytics Version 11.1.x Installation & Configuration IBM © Product Information This document applies to IBM Cognos Analytics version 11.1.0 and may also apply to subsequent releases. Copyright Licensed Materials - Property of IBM © Copyright IBM Corp. 2015, 2021. US Government Users Restricted Rights – Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. IBM, the IBM logo and ibm.com are trademarks or registered 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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US Government Users Restricted Rights – Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Chapter 1. Preparing to install............................................................................... 1 Review supported environments.................................................................................................................1 Verify system requirements.........................................................................................................................1 Memory settings..................................................................................................................................... 3 Java requirements....................................................................................................................................... 4 Review the default port settings..................................................................................................................5 Guidelines for creating the content store....................................................................................................6 Suggested settings for creating the content store in IBM Db2 on Linux, Windows, and UNIX operating systems............................................................................................................................. 7 Suggested settings for creating the content store in IBM Db2 on z/OS ...............................................9 Suggested settings for creating the content store in Oracle.................................................................9 Suggested settings for creating the content store in Microsoft SQL Server....................................... 10 Suggested settings for creating the content store in IBM Informix database server........................ 11 Configure a User Account or Network Service Account for IBM Cognos Analytics................................. 11 Configure web browsers............................................................................................................................ 12 Chapter 2. Easy installation................................................................................. 15 Chapter 3. Single server installation.....................................................................17 Chapter 4. Distributed server installation............................................................. 21 Content Tier Installation............................................................................................................................22 Application Tier Installation...................................................................................................................... 24 Gateway Tier Installation.......................................................................................................................... 26 Chapter 5. Silent installation, uninstallation, and configuration............................ 29 Use a silent installation..............................................................................................................................29 Use a response file template.....................................................................................................................31 Use a silent configuration.......................................................................................................................... 33 Use a silent uninstallation......................................................................................................................... 34 Chapter 6. Installing IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook Server...............35 Hardware requirements for Jupyter Notebook Server............................................................................. 35 Installing Jupyter Notebook Server on Linux............................................................................................36 Uninstalling Jupyter Notebook Server.................................................................................................38 Installing Jupyter Notebook Server on Microsoft Windows 10................................................................38 Uninstalling Jupyter Notebook Server.................................................................................................40 Installing a pip package in an offline Linux environment......................................................................... 40 Installing a pip package in an offline Windows environment................................................................... 41 Configuring Jupyter Notebook Server....................................................................................................... 42 Configuring the Cognos Analytics gateway for Jupyter Notebook Server.......................................... 44 Securing Jupyter Notebook Server........................................................................................................... 45 Upgrading IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook Server...............................................................46 Upgrading your installation for Linux...................................................................................................46 Upgrading your installation for Microsoft Windows............................................................................ 47 Upgrading Python packages and R packages......................................................................................47 Adding additional Ubuntu operating system packages.................................................................. 48 Troubleshooting IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook Server.....................................................49 iii Chapter 7. Distribution options............................................................................ 51 Cognos Analytics components.................................................................................................................. 51 Server components.............................................................................................................................. 51 Modeling components..........................................................................................................................53 Required database components..........................................................................................................54 Distributing components........................................................................................................................... 54 Application Tier Components and Content Managers on separate computers..................................55 Consolidate servers for Linux on System z..........................................................................................56 Installation for optional modeling components....................................................................................... 57 Firewall considerations........................................................................................................................ 57 Distributing Framework Manager components................................................................................... 59 Distributing Transformer components.................................................................................................59 IBM Cognos Analytics with other IBM Cognos products..........................................................................61 IBM Cognos products that interoperate with IBM Cognos Analytics................................................. 61 Chapter 8. Upgrading Cognos Analytics................................................................ 65 Upgrading your current version of Cognos
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