Cognos 8.3 Installation with Oracle 10g Database (1).

Oracle 10g Installation: While installing Oracle 10g,Character set should be Unicode (ALUTF32) After installing the Oracle 10g, Create a user. Sql>create user content identified by content; User Created. Sql>Grant Dba to content; Granted. In the above mentioned command,content is the user name and the password is : content. COGNOS 8.3 INSTALLATION: In cognos 8.3 cd,you could find two folders,They are: a).Cognos 8.3 Server b).Cognos BI Modeling First we need to install the Cognos 8.3 Server and then the Cognos BI Modeling. (2) To Install Cognos 8.3 Server: Open the folderCognos 8.3 ServerClick the folderWin32clickIssetup.exefollow the instructions. Installation path : c:\programfiles\cognos8\c8 (3) To Install Cognos 8.3 BI Modeling: Open the folderCognos 8.3 BI ModelingClick the folderWin32clickIssetup.exefollow the instructions. Installation path : c:\programfiles\cognos8\c8 (4) Installing JDBC drivers You can find the classes12.zip file in the locationE:\oracle\ora90\JDBC\lib\classes12.zip.

Copy and paste that file classes12.zip into C:\ Now go to start Run and type Cmd to login into command prompt. C:\Rename classes12.zip classes12.jar Now File name has been renamed to classes12.jar. Copy this classes12.jar file into the following location: C:\Programfiles\cognos8\c8\webapps\p2pd\webinf\lib\classes12.jar Note: Here C:\ is the drive where Operating system installed. Here E:\ is the drive where Oracle installed. (5) Configuring IIS Before loging to IIS,stop the service Oracle Service HTTP Server. StartRunTypeServices.MscStop the service. To Login to IIS, StartRunType Inetmgr Stop the Default Website. Steps to configure the IIS server: Step (a): Right Click Default websiteNew virtual directorySpecify the namecognos8Click BrowseC:\Programfiles\cognos8\c8\webcontentNext Finish. Step (b): Now Right clickcognos8New virtual directorySpecify the namecgi-binClick BrowseC:\Programfiles\cognos8\c8\cgi-binclickExecute alone check box NextFinish.

Step (c):

Now Right Click cgi-binNew virtual diretorySpecify the namehelpClick BrowseC:\Programfiles\cognos8\c8\webcontent\DocumentationNext Finish. (6) Cognos Configuration StartProgramsCognosCognos Configuration.a new window will open.. Right Click Content Managerdelete"content store" Right clickContent managerNewResoruce databaseType cognos8 and then selectOracle database. On the right-side of the window,specify the following: User namecontent Passwordcontent Servicve NameTo know the service name: Type the following command in Oracle: SQL>Select name from V$database; C8 Note:You must be login as a DBA user to view this name. Crypthography: Select the option Crypthography in the left side pane of the window. You can see the Password option in the right-side pane of the window. Type the password:content These are the steps to configure cognos 8.3 with Oracle. Clicksave option and then click the symbol > to start the cognos service.

Command to find the current character set in oracle: To find out db char sets: sql> select * from nls_database_parameters where parameter like '%CHARACTERSET';