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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