Basic Installation and Configuration of Cognos:

Installation and Configuration of Cognos 8.4 with DB2 and Apache web server2.0:


Db2:
 

• Install DB2
• Create a database with UTF-8 code set and named as content store.
• Create two buffer pool with 32kb and 4kb space.
• Create regular,System and User temporary table spaces with 32kb page size for system,user, regular and point out 32kb buffer pool.
• Create system temporary table space with 4kb page size and point out 4kb buffer pool.

Cognos:

• Install Cognos
• Copy Common.jar,db2jcc4.jar,db2jcc.jar,db2dbgm.jar,db2java.zip,db2qgjava.jar files from DB2Installation path\IBM\SQLLIB\Java and put it under C:\Program Files\cognos\c8\webapps\p2pd\WEB-INF\lib
• Launch Cognos Configuration.
• Delete default content store,create new one and configure the content store by giving content store database name, port number, location of content store with cognos.
• Save the configuration.

Apache web server:

• Install Apache web server
• Add the below script

ScriptAlias /cognos8/cgi-bin "C:/Program Files/cognos/c8/cgi-bin/"
 <Directory "C:/Program Files/cognos/c8/cgi-bin">
     Options Indexes MultiViews
     AllowOverride None
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
 </Directory>
Alias /cognos8 "C:/Program Files/cognos/c8/webcontent"
 <Directory "C:/Program Files/cognos/c8/webcontent">
     Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
     AllowOverride None
     Order allow,deny
     Allow from all
 </Directory>
in httpd.conf file present within the folder:Apache HTTP Server 2.0\data\usr\local\Apache2\conf

Start services:

Start content store database.
Start cognos server
Start apache server