IBM Cognos Express Version 9.

5 Demo Install Instructions

IBM Cognos Express version 9.5 extends our planning capabilities to further differentiate our market leadership as the only vendor to provide integrated reporting, analysis and planning for the midmarket. We have prepared a new demo environment to give an end-to-end view of the capabilities of Express and to make effective use of the new features in the release: Express Planner module Embedded OLAP Server enhancements which extend scenario modeling and personal analysis capabilities Simplified metadata modeling New relational modeling capabilities in Data Advisor as well as multidimensional modeling Enhanced dashboards in Advisor This demo environment supports Reporting, Analysis and/or Planning Agendas. It provides a demonstration system and script to showcase both the technical functionality and business value of IBM Cognos Express. The messaging and perspective of this demo targets a prospective customer in the mid-market. The demo content is designed to be suitable for a wide range of prospects e.g. operations manager, business/financial analyst etc. in the Office of Finance or Line of Business. The demo revolves around a fictional Auto2Go firm which sells cars worldwide however it has been designed to be table-driven to allow easy renaming of products and geographies so you can customize it to your more closely match your prospects interests. 1. Prerequisites Native or VM environment with Operating System: Windows XP Professional 32-bit, Windows 7 Professional 32bit/64-bit, Windows 2003 SP2/R2 64-bit or Windows 2008 SP2/R2 64-bit SQL Server 2005/2008 Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 Internet Explorer v7 or V8 Microsoft .Net Framework version 3.5 SP1 Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6 or later IBM Cognos Express version 9.5 successfully installed (Cognos Express Manager and all Connectors including Client software)

For more information on supported environments, please see the Cognos Express 9.5 Software Environments page located at: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27019191

2. Restore the data from the SQL Server Backup When in SQL Server, right click on Databases and select New Database. Next, right click that new Database and select Tasks > Restore > Database Select From Device and navigate to CXDemo.bak file Dont forget to check mark the Overwrite the existing database box within the option page

3. Restore the IBM Cognos Express backup. Copy the A2GCXBackup folder into the Cognos Express Backups folder located, by default, at the same level as your Cognos Express Installation Location: e.g. C:\Program Files\IBM\Cognos Express Backups Once the copy has been placed in the folder, the backup should be visible in Cognos Express Manager on the Backup and Restore tab. Simply select this backup from the list and click Restore Restoring the demo content may take several minutes. NOTE: Restoring this backup to your Cognos Express installation will replace all predefined content that exists. During the restore process, you may receive a message Unable to service request. This is due to the fact that the Informix content store must be restarted and Cognos Express cannot connect for a brief period. Following this, you will be prompted to log back into Cognos Express. Use the following credentials: User ID: administrator Password: admin1234 4. Cognos Configuration Following the restore, you will see that the A2G Demo content is now visible in Cognos Connection. However, the database connection will have to be configured to point to the server where the SQL Server database was restored. To do this, edit the properties for the following data sources in Cognos Administration: A2G CXA Excel Files D2G2 Metrics

Here are example steps and illustrations for configuring the A2G data source. You will have to repeat these for the other data sourcesLaunch Cognos Configuration Select the Configuration tab, then Data Source Connections on the left Click on the A2G data source Click the Set properties action

Next, select (click) the Connection tab Next, first select the appropriate data source type - these instructions are based off of Microsoft SQL Server (SQL 2008 Native Client). Click the small pencil icon located to the right of the connection string parameters boxsee illustration:

Enter the Server Name, the Cognos Express Database name that you restored in the previous step, and then choose the IBM Cognos 8 Service Credentials radio button.

Finally, Test the connection

If succeeded, Click the Close and OK buttons to exit configurations windows and get back out to the Configuration tab. These steps must be repeated for each of the data sources listed above.

5. Unpack Image files and create virtual directories to point to them

Unzip the the file Auto2Go.zip into a directory somewhere (e.g. d:\auto2go). Then go into IIS and create a virtual directory called A2G that points to your directory:

Now create a directory somewhere called Digital2go (e.g. C:\Digital2Go) and create a subfolder called "images" within that (e.g. C:\Digital2Go\images). Unzip the all the files from D2gWeb.zip into the images subfolder. Then set up a virtual directory (as you just did above) called digital2go and point it at the parent folder (e.g. C:\Digital2Go).
Note: You will still need to correct the server name in the paths of images in reports from CX90GA to either localhost or your server name.

6. Place the Corporate Presentation PowerPoint file on the desktop

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This is a powerpoint file that has had an Advisor object embedded as an activex object. Once you have started all the IBM Cognos Express services you can open this PowerPoint in slide show mode (you will be prompted to logon to Express) and the Advisor report will be live within the PowerPoint.